• "manhã de carnaval" by astrud gilberto
  • "he made sure that she got nothing": the sad story of astrud gilberto, the face of bossa nova
    • stan getz was a notorious prick that revoked astrud's deserved royalties for her performance (at age 22 nonetheless!) and later abused wife and endangered children!
    • astrud received $120, a union rate paid by the american musicians' syndicate for a night of session work
    • joão gilberto cheated then left astrud for an art history student, later known as miúcha
      • bebel gilberto
    • single mother, scorned woman
      • 24 years old, traveling with her son marcelo on tour with getz, financial trouble, in the middle of a divorce
      • "...and, of course, sadly, totally naïve."
    • marcelo gilberto eventually learns the nature of how men perceived his mother as an object
    • 1965-71 made eight solo albums once she was out of getz's clutch but did not receive production credit or recompense with CTI records
    • 1987 one album
    • 1996 "desafinado" cover with george michael
    • japanese albums? no fucking way
      • kinda like benito mussolini's granddaughter that made "tokyo night"
      • brazil turned their back to her, she didn't perform in brazil after 1965, and and spent the rest of her life living in philly
  • astrud and chet baker, gil evans, walter wanderley, quincy jones, james last, étienne daho, gerry mulligan, barney kessel
  • potential playlist
    • "boys at school" by spellling (7:28)
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