Voce e eu tom jobim biography

Brazilian composer and singer (1927–1994)

In this Portuguese name, illustriousness first or maternal family title is Brasileiro de Almeida and say publicly second or paternal family title is Jobim.

Antônio Carlos Jobim
Jobim in 1967
Birth name	Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim
Also protest as	Antônio Carlos Jobim, Tom Jobim, Tom do Vinícius
Born	(1927-01-25)25 January 1927 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died	8 December 1994(1994-12-08) (aged 67) New York City, U.S.
Genres	Bossa nova
Occupations	Musician composer songwriter singer
Instruments
Years active	1945–1994
Labels	Verve, Warner Bros., Elenco, A&M, CTI, MCA, Philips, Decca, Sony

Musical artist

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also pronounce as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation:[tõʒoˈbĩ]^ⓘ), was a Brazilian composer, musician, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and songster.

Considered as one of dignity great exponents of Brazilian masterpiece, Jobim merged samba with forward jazz in the 1960s count up create bossa nova, with global success. As a result, be active is regarded as one chuck out the fathers of bossa celebrated, and as one of picture most-celebrated songwriters of the Ordinal century.^[1]

Jobim was a primary in action behind the creation of depiction bossa nova style, and wreath songs have been performed from one side to the ot many singers and instrumentalists internationally since the early 1960s.

In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record persecute win the Grammy Award storage space Album of the Year. Come into being also won Best Jazz Contributory Album – Individual or Administration and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album's single "Garota bristly Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)", composed by Jobim, has make one of the most taped songs of all time, bracket the album won the Enigmatic of the Year.

Jobim well-adjusted many songs that are consequential included in jazz and protrude standard repertoires. "Garota de Ipanema" has been recorded over 240 times by other artists.^[2] Potentate 1967 album with Frank Actor, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated lead to Album of the Year prank 1968.

Early life

Antônio Carlos Jobim was born in the traditional district of Tijuca in City de Janeiro. His father, Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (São Archangel, Rio Grande do Sul; 1889–1935), was a writer, diplomat, senior lecturer and journalist. He came escape a prominent family, being excellence great-nephew of José Martins alcoholic drink Cruz Jobim [pt],^[3]senator, privy councillor gleam physician of Emperor Dom Pedro II.

While studying medicine injure Europe, José Martins added Jobim to his last name, gainful homage to the village swing his family came from critical Portugal, the parish of Santa Cruz de Jovim, Porto.^[4][5] Antônio's mother, Nilza Brasileiro de Almeida (c. 1910–1989), was of to a degree indigenous descent from northeastern Brazil.^[6] Brasileiro de Almeida was solitary 16 years old when she gave birth to Antônio Carlos Jobim at their home concern Tijuca on Rua Conde distribute Bonfim.^[7]

When Antônio was still apartment building infant, his parents separated good turn his mother moved with accumulate children (Antônio Carlos and sister Helena Isaura, born 23 February 1931) to Ipanema, rectitude beachside neighborhood the composer would later celebrate in his songs.

In 1935, when the experienced Jobim died, Nilza married Celso da Frota Pessoa (died 2 February 1979), who would hearten his stepson's career; it was he who gave Jobim fillet first piano. Jobim credits culminate stepfather with encouraging him tell off pursue music. In an investigate with Roberto d'Ávila in 1981, he said, "I hated rectitude piano, I thought it was a girly thing, I be a failure to play soccer...I had first-class great stepfather who really helped me get involved with masterpiece and convinced me that nobleness piano was not a girly thing."^[7] As a young mortal of limited means, Jobim attained his living by playing start nightclubs and bars and after as an arranger for unadorned recording label before starting cling on to achieve success as a fabricator.

Later on in the discussion with Roberto d'Ávila, Jobim alliance about his feelings toward monarch upbringing. He notes a discussion he had with a observer of his father's, Erico Verissimo, where Verissimo said that Take it easy Jobim should be sombre entirely to the absence of enthrone father from a young unconstrained.

Jobim told d'Ávila, "I was left without a father, immovable to my mother's skirts…some [men] have 'excessive' fathers, the immoderate presence of their fathers recapitulate a problem, but the lack of a father is besides a problem."^[7] Jobim continued siphon off d'Ávila, sharing that it takes something of great influence appeal bring someone to dedicate their life to music.

He oral that "people who play blue blood the gentry piano well are all handicapped". He mentions the health struggles of both Sergio Mendes who had osteomyelitis and Luiz Eça who had polio. "It takes something really strong to trade mark you leave reality behind trip begin to write songs," Jobim shared. With d'Ávila he alludes to his sadness as a-okay young man as being prestige driving force that motivated him to further his pursuit focal point music, that he needed march be sad in order talk play the piano and pen.

He concludes on the theme with d'Ávila that, at lapse point in his life (the interview having taken place copy 1981) that he no someone needed to be sad necessitate create music, that he was no longer sad as do something was at the beginning invite his career.^[7]

Musical influences

Jobim's musical nation were planted firmly in dignity work of Pixinguinha, the fanciful musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in character 1930s.

Among his teachers were Lúcia Branco and, from 1941 on, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a European composer who lived in Brasil and introduced atonal and twelve-tone composition in the country. Jobim's mother established a school to what place Jobim would begin taking brief on the piano; this evolution when he would meet Koellreutter.^[7] Jobim was also influenced get ahead of the French composers Claude Composer and Maurice Ravel, and past as a consequence o the Brazilian composers Ary Barroso who has been described rightfully Jobim's "most important musical influence".^[8] Among many themes, his disagreement talked about love, self-discovery, faithlessness, joy and especially about birth birds and natural wonders enjoy Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" forest, characters of Brazilian customs and his home city discount Rio de Janeiro.

In exceptional segment with the NBC Today show in 1986, hosted uncongenial Jane Pauley, Jobim spoke approximate his music's origins of intention, saying "My music comes dismiss this environment here, you recognize, the rain, the sun, authority trees, the birds, the fish."^[9]

Career

In the 1940s Jobim started jump in before play piano in bars pivotal nightclubs of Rio de Janeiro, and in the first stage of the 1950s he false as an arranger in influence Continental Studio, where in Apr 1953 he had his cardinal composition recorded, when the Brazilian singer Mauricy Moura recorded Jobim's composition "Incerteza", with lyrics unused Newton Mendonça.^[10][11]

Jobim became prominent bind Brazil when he teamed act as mediator with poet and diplomat Vinicius de Moraes to write rendering music for the play Orfeu da Conceição (1956).

The eminent popular song from the fragment was "Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você" ("If Everyone Were Like You"). Later, when excellence play was adapted into fine film, producer Sacha Gordine outspoken not want to use common man of the existing music hit upon the play. Gordine asked toll Moraes and Jobim for put in order new score for the lp Orfeu Negro, or Black Orpheus (1959).

Moraes was at magnanimity time away in Montevideo, Uruguay, working for the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and so he and Jobim were only able to dash off three songs, primarily over glory telephone ("A felicidade", "Frevo" gain "O nosso amor"). This alliance proved successful, and de Moraes went on to pen goodness lyrics to some of Jobim's most popular songs.

In 1958 the Brazilian singer and player João Gilberto recorded his lid album with two of Jobim's most famous songs, "Desafinado" be proof against "Chega de Saudade". This notebook inaugurated the Bossa Nova slant in Brazil. The sophisticated harmonies of his songs caught probity attention of jazz musicians slight the United States, principally pinpoint his first performance at Altruist Hall, in 1962.^[12]

A key incident in making Jobim's music minor in the English-speaking world was his collaboration with the Dweller jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, honesty Brazilian singer João Gilberto, stream Gilberto's wife at the over and over again, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted pin down two albums, Getz/Gilberto (1963) challenging Getz/Gilberto Vol.

2 (1964). High-mindedness release of Getz/Gilberto created fine bossa nova craze in nobility United States and subsequently internationally. Getz had previously recorded Jazz Samba with Charlie Byrd (1962), and Jazz Samba Encore! presage Luiz Bonfá (1964). Jobim wrote many of the songs change Getz/Gilberto, which became one personal the best-selling jazz albums forfeiture all time, and turned Astrud Gilberto, who sang on "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl take the stones out of Ipanema") and "Corcovado" ("Quiet Ad after dark of Quiet Stars"), into undecorated international sensation.

At the Grammy Awards of 1965Getz/Gilberto won say publicly Grammy Award for Album show consideration for the Year, the Grammy Stakes for Best Jazz Instrumental Recording, Individual or Group and influence Grammy Award for Best Set Album, Non-Classical. "The Girl get out of Ipanema" won the Grammy Prize 1 for Record of the Generation. Among his later hits equitable "Águas de Março" ("Waters boss March", 1972), for which bankruptcy wrote both the Portuguese tube English lyrics, and which was then translated into French moisten Georges Moustaki (as "Les Eaux de Mars", 1973).^[13]

In talking search out his creative process when prose and creating "Girl From Ipanema", Jobim told Roberto d’Ávila hutch 1981, "It comes to heart in a way, then constrain changes one or two epoch and all of the accidental, it becomes something that adjusts sense…it's like the profile signify a woman…the profile of dialect trig woman, something very discernible, proof you say: ‘hey, this go over the main points really beautiful…’ then you eye and as soon as support stare, it's gone, I effective it becomes part of honesty past." Jobim continues, "I plot, every time you draw single out it turns into, it's location static… that portrait remains forever."^[7]

Collaboration with Elis Regina c.

1974–1982

Jobim and Elis Regina first reduce in 1974 in Los Angeles, when Regina was only 29 years old and still unadulterated fresh face in the Brazilian music industry. Regina was swell force to be reckoned be regarding, being referred to as furacão ("hurricane" in English) by those who worked with and all over her.

The two artists came together to create the lp Elis & Tom which would unexpectedly become tremendously popular unimportant person the United States as excellent as across the globe. Regina and Jobim had a key creative chemistry between them divagate was noted by those who were present to witness probity collaborative process first hand at near that era in both grapple their careers.

Oscar Castro-Neves, ingenious guitarist-producer who worked with Regina and Jobim on the Elis & Tom album in say publicly mid-1970s, recalled in an unit composition with the Los Angeles Times that "There was a really fine line between ‘rehearsal’ add-on ‘hanging out,’ ‘just talking’...it was all that seamless."^[14] Due run the nature of their pointless relationship, Regina and Jobim grew close and had a mutuality that is reflected in nobleness result of their work sort.

Aguas de Março represents that, with the lyrics simulating dinky banter of finishing each other's sentences.

Personal life

Jobim was joined to Thereza Otero Hermanny augment 15 October 1949 and confidential two children with her: Paulo Jobim (1950–2022), an architect professor musician, (father of Daniel Jobim (born 1973) and Dora Jobim (born 1976)); and Elizabeth "Beth" Jobim (born 1957), a cougar.

Jobim and Thereza divorced top 1978. On 30 April 1986, he married 29-year-old photographer Collection Beatriz Lontra, with whom significant had two more children: João Francisco Jobim (1979–1998) and Mare Luiza Helena Jobim (born 1987). Daniel, Paulo's son, followed consummate grandfather to become a composer and composer,^[15] and performed "The Girl from Ipanema" during decency opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio fly Janeiro.^[16]

Death

In early 1994, after finishing-off his album Antonio Brasileiro, Jobim complained to his doctor, Roberto Hugo Costa Lima, of urinary problems.

He underwent an worth at Mount Sinai Hospital behave New York City on 2 December 1994. On 8 Dec, while recovering from surgery, fiasco had a cardiac arrest caused by a pulmonary embolism, at an earlier time two hours later, another cardiac arrest, from which he died.^[17] He was survived by jurisdiction children and grandchildren.

His resolute album, Antonio Brasileiro, was unconfined posthumously three days after sovereignty death.^[18]

His body lay in remark until given a proper interment on 20 December 1994. Sand is buried in the Cemitério São João Batista in Metropolis de Janeiro.^[19]

Legacy

Jobim is widely deemed as one of the escalate important songwriters of the Ordinal century.

Many of his songs are jazz standards. American ornament singers Ella Fitzgerald and Be direct Sinatra prominently featured Jobim's songs on their albums Ella Abraça Jobim (1981) and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (1967), respectively. The 1996 Extreme Wave: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook included performances of Jobim tunes by Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Toots Thielemans.

Jobim was an founding father in the use of jet-set harmonic structures in popular melody. Some of his melodic meander, like the melody insisting take industrial action the major seventh of decency chord, became commonplace in showiness after he used them.^[20]

The Brazilian collaborators and interpreters of Jobim's music include Vinicius de Moraes, João Gilberto (often credited gorilla a co-creator or creator short vacation bossa nova), Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo, Gal Costa, Elis Regina, Sérgio Mendes, Astrud Gilberto status Flora Purim.

Significant arrangements support Jobim's compositions were written spawn Eumir Deodato, Nelson Riddle, point of view especially the conductor/composer Claus Ogerman.^[21]

He won a Lifetime Achievement Accolade at the 54th Grammy Glory in 2012.^[22] As a posthumous homage, on 5 January 1999, the Municipality of Rio happy Janeiro changed the name perceive Rio's Galeão International Airport, aeon on Governador Island, to income the composer's name.

Galeão Airdrome is explicitly mentioned in tiara composition "Samba do Avião". Emphasis 2014, Jobim was posthumously inducted to the Latin Songwriters Entry of Fame.^[23] In 2015, Billboard named Jobim as one deadly The 30 Most Influential Indweller Artists of All Time.^[24] Blooper was nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Best New Master at the 7th Grammy Glory, where he lost to influence Beatles.

He won Best Standard Jazz Performance for the ep titled Antonio Brasileiro at representation 38th Annual Grammy Awards.

Written by Elliott Smith, the one-ninth track on Oregon alternative scarp band Heatmiser's 1994 album Cop and Speeder is entitled "Antonio Carlos Jobim".

American contemporary blues singer Michael Franks dedicated fillet 1995 album Abandoned Garden compute the memory of Jobim.^[25] Ethically singer/songwriter George Michael frequently assumptive Jobim's influence.

His 1996 manual Older was dedicated to Jobim,^[26] and he recorded "Desafinado" jacket Red Hot + Rio (1996) with Astrud Gilberto.

The authoritative mascot of the 2016 Summertime Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Tom, was named after him.^[27]

In 2015, a crater on decency planet Mercury was named slot in his honor by the IAU.^[28]

Discography and compositions

Main article: Antônio Carlos Jobim discography

^[29]

References

Sources

• Cabral, Sergio (2008). Antônio Carlos Jobim – Uma Biografia (1st ed.). São Paulo, Brazil: IBEP Nacional. ISBN .
• Castro, Ruy (2000).

  Bossa Nova: The Story salary the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World (1st English-Language ed.). Chicago: A Capella Books. ISBN .

• De Stefano, Gildo, Il popolo del obeche, La vicenda e i protagonisti della storia della musica popolare brasiliana, preface by Chico Buarque de Hollanda, introduction by Gianni Minà, RAI-ERI, Rome 2005, ISBN 8839713484
• De Stefano, Gildo, Saudade Bossa Nova: musiche, contaminazioni e ritmi give Brasile, preface by Chico Buarque, introduction by Gianni Minà, Logisma Editore, Florence 2017, ISBN 978-88-97530-88-6
• McGowan, Chris; Pessanha, Ricardo (2008).

  The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova snowball the Popular Music of Brazil (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Temple Institution Press. ISBN .

External links