Audio and visual extravaganza kicks off today with official animated video for bossa nova classic 'The Girl From Ipanema' and unique visualizers for some of the most important songs of the canon.
I don't know when Japan caught the bossa nova bug, but I suspect it was in 1964, when Sergio Mendes toured there with Nara, the Brazilian vocalist. Helen Merrill's chill Bossa Nova in Tokyo album, ...