Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...

Sitti Navarro is set to revisit the music that made Filipinos fall in love with bossa nova as she marks the 20th anniversary ...

In a quaint bungalow humming with Portuguese, a cool breeze of lilting harmonies and rhythmic bounce invites a leisurely sway to the tranquility of bossa nova. It’s a modern take on a sound pioneered ...

When Sergio Mendes reflects on the amazing journey he calls life, from his formative years at the forefront of a bossa nova revolution through his Oscar-nominated work on "Rio" to the recent ...

He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...

“Brazilian Voices: A Bossa Nova Yoga Experience” will take place at 11 a.m., Sunday, May 17, in the Abdo New River Room at ...

This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian Grammy-winning musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months of battling the effects of long Covid. He was 83.

Most people thought bossa nova was dead, and most were glad to have simply survived the hucksterized flood of bossa nova dances, bossa nova shoes and sweatshirts, boogie bossa nova, soul bossa nova.