Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made 'The Girl from Ipanema' a worldwide sensation in the 1960s and provided a huge boost to the budding bossanova genre, has died at age 83, her family said. 'I come bearing the sad news that my grandmother became a star today and is next to my grandfather Joao Gilberto,' Sofia Gilberto wrote on social media early Tuesday. The singer was born in Salvador, capital of Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, in 1940 and was married to Joao Gilberto, a pioneer of the bossa nova genre who died in 2019.

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