Bossa nova can be said as one of the styles in Brazilian music and they have been popularized by Vinicius de Moraes, Jiao Gilberto, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
This style of Brazilian music started acquiring in large number of people and the talents are shown by college students as well as young musicians.
Though this Bossa Nova started reaching a large number of people in only six years (1958 to 1963), a large number of songs were contributed to the standard jazz repertoire.
History and origin of Bossa nova:
Bossa Nova’s musical style was entirely involved from the samba but they are in lesser percussive and more in complex harmonically. The Bossa Nova’s foremost origin was from Rio De Janeiro, an upscale neighborhood in Brazilian music history and the samba origin is from favelas in Rio.
In the year 1956 in Brazil, the first Bossa Nova was developed and the first song of the Bossa Nova style is named “Bim- Bom”.
Another reason the Bossa Nova style became very popular is because of the recording done by Elizite Cardoso which was composed by the young musician Antonio Carlos Jobim and the lyrics were written by Vinicius de Moraes. Then the songs were released by Gilberto.
The foremost film with the style of Bossa Nova music is named Black Orpheus and the movie was released by Gilberto. This movie made a great move and attained popularity throughout Brazil. Then from Brazil, it reached North America where North American jazz music directors had a chance in listening up to this music style.
After Elizite Cardoso’s recording, another two young talented persons named Stan Getz as well as Charlie Byrds recording to the Bossa Nova style music was released and achieved its worldwide popularity during the year 1963.
As it is noticed that the recording plays an important role in the popularity of the music, they started to release more songs in the same year itself.
Later on, during the early years of the 1990s, several European artists also joined with the Bossa Nova style by just mixing certain music and naming them techno boss, boss electrical, etc.
After attaining certain popularity with the style of this Brazilian music, the term Bossa Nova was simply called Bossa, and several singers like Babel Gilberto, daughter of Gilberto, etc got introduced. All these aspects made Bossa Nova attain its popularity.
