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João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira (Juazeiro, June 10, 1931), better known as João Gilberto is a Brazilian musician, considered the creator of the bossa nova rhythm.

Biography of João Gilberto

João Gilberto was born in Bahia, in the backcountry town of Juazeiro, João got a guitar at the age of 14, and since then he has never let go of it.

In the 1940s, he loved listening to everything from Duke Ellington and Tommy Dorsey to Dorival Caymmi and Dalva de Oliveira.

At the age of 18 João Gilberto decided to move to Salvador with the intention of becoming a radio singer and crooner.

He then went to Rio de Janeiro in 1950 and had some success singing in the group Garotos da Lua.

However, he was thrown out of the band for indiscipline and spent some years in a marginal existence, although obsessed with the idea of creating a new way of expressing himself with the guitar.

His efforts were finally rewarded and, after meeting Tom Jo