Antônio Carlos Jobim
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Raised in Rio de Janeiro’s Ipanema district after his parents’ separation, he took up piano at his stepfather’s urging and later refined his craft under teachers such as Lúcia Branco and the avant-garde composer Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. Merging samba rhythms with cool jazz, he helped launch bossa nova in the early 1960s, producing standards that entered both pop and jazz repertoires; his melody…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources