Unlike the great instrumentalists of Bonfa, powell or the charismatic singers Carlos Lyra or Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos became famous for being the most important Brazilian musical figure of the late 20th century because of his compositions.

The One note Samba guitar tab and One note Samba Lyrics on this page was one of his famous songs. Others worth mentioning are famous bassa novas as the girl from ipanema (garota de ipanema), Corcovado, Desafinado, Chega De Saudade… The list goes on and on.

Tom Jobin looked on him self as just another middle-class Carioca "beach boy" hanging out in the bars and coffeehouses along the white sand of Copacabana and Ipanema until the day a peddler, selling roses, stopped before him one afternoon. He was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and had plans to become an architect.

He was inspired by the many music forms, like American jazz, harmonies from the French impressionists and of course the fast and furious Brazilian samba brought to brazil by the Africans. The One note Samba guitar tab and One note Samba Lyrics became part of the new slow samba with atmosphere called Bossa Nova!

The Bossa Nova was first heard in small clubs and Cafe's in the beachfront districts of Rio de Janeiro around 1958. Traduced , Bossa Nova means "the new beat" in Brazil. Antonio Carlos Jobim is credited as naming the Bossa Nova to describe João Gilberto's new musical style.

The roots of the Bossa Nova music point to Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá (1922-2001), all three are musician / Composers who wrote the first Bossa Nova "A felicidade" for the 1958 (1959) film "Black Orpheus," Sidney Frey brought the music to the United States while Elvis Presley and songs like the "The Girl From Ipanema" made it a somewhat popular music. The Music is likened to a Jazz-Samba.

The dance originated around 1960 and was somewhat popular by 1962, however the music was much more popular than the dance due to it's hasty commercialism. Vocalist Edie Gormé recorded the pop tune "Blame It on the Bossa Nova," a song in which the style is depicted as a dance is a good example. The dance is basically the opposite steps of the rumba, (Slow-Quick-Quick) with a Samba flair, very similar to toady's much slower Nightclub Two-step. The dance can be done in couple or solo form. Joe Lanza is said to have choreographed the first "Bossa Nova Dance" to "Bossa-Nova Music".

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