Bossa Nova Concert: Featuring the REAL Girl from Ipanema!

So, how often do you get to say you met the actual Girl from Ipanema?

Yes, the one who inspired the composers of the famous song from the 60's, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes!

Her name is Helo Pinheiro, and she will be at this fantastic Bossa Nova Concert with Rose Max & Ramatis Moraes.

http://ebmedia.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/24956583/2696574527-1.jpg

They will be singing the greatest hits from Bossa Nova, and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the song "The Girl from Ipanema" with the presence of Helô Pinheiro - the muse of Vinicius de Moraes and Tom Jobim.

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS (http://bossanovashow-autohome.eventbrite.com/)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Helo_Pinheiro.jpg

The version performed by Astrud Gilberto, along with João Gilberto and Stan Getz, from the 1964 album Getz/Gilberto, became an international hit, reaching number five in the United States pop chart, number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charting highly throughout the world. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

http://www.jobim.com.br/images/girl_ipanema/helo_score04.jpg

The song was inspired by Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a fifteen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in the fashionable Ipanema district in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Daily, she would stroll past the popular Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf-whistles. In the winter of 1962, the composers watched the girl pass by the bar, and it is easy to imagine why they noticed her—Helô was a 173-cm (five-foot eight-inch) brunette, and she attracted the attention of many of the bar patrons. Since the song became popular, she has become a celebrity.

http://sampa.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/viva-a-bossa-nova.jpg

In Revelação: a verdadeira Garota de Ipanema (Revealed: The Real Girl from Ipanema) Moraes wrote she was:

"o paradigma do broto carioca; a moça dourada, misto de flor e sereia, cheia de luz e de graça mas cuja a visão é também triste, pois carrega consigo, a caminho do mar, o sentimento da mocidade que passa, da beleza que não é só nossa—é um dom da vida em seu lindo e melancólico fluir e refluir constante." Translation:

"the paradigm of the young Carioca: a golden teenage girl, a mixture of flower and mermaid, full of light and grace, the sight of whom is also sad, in that she carries with her, on her route to the sea, the feeling of youth that fades, of the beauty that is not ours alone—it is a gift of life in its beautiful and melancholic constant ebb and flow." CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS (http://bossanovashow-autohome.eventbrite.com/) http://brazilianparty.com/imgs/eventos/bossa-nova.jpg We hope to see you there