Johnny Alf, an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova, died on March 4 in Santo Andre, Brazil, just outside Sao Paulo.
Leny Andrade, a Brazilian singer who helped craft a new genre by fusing the country’s mellow bossa nova sound with jazz influences, including scat improvisations that drew comparisons to Ella ...
Johnny Alf, a Brazilian pianist and singer credited with inventing Bossa Nova, has died. He was 80... Alf died Thursday in a Sao Paulo hospital of multiple organ failure after a fight with prostate ...
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