Antônio Carlos Jobim

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Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, (25 January 1927 – 8 December 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation: [t] ob) was a Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, arranger, and singer. Jobim internationalized bossa nova and, with the support of influential American musicians, fused jazz in the 1960s to create a new sound with popular success. He is often described as the "father of bossa nova" who appears.

Jobim was a major factor behind the introduction of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by a variety of singers and instrumentalists around the world.

Getz/Gilberto, the first jazz album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1965. It also received Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group – and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album's single 'Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema)', produced by Jobim, has become one of the best-selling albums of all time, and has earned the Grammy Award for the Year. Jobsim wrote several songs that are now included in jazz and pop standard repertoires. Other artists' "Garota de Ipanema" has been recorded over 240 times. In 1968, Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated for Album of the Year.

Early life

Antônio Carlos Jobim was born in Tijuca, Brazil's middle-class neighborhood. Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (So Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, 1889-1935), his father, a writer, diplomat, scholar, and journalist, was a writer, diplomat, researcher, and writer. He came from a wealthy family and was the great-nephew of José Martins da Cruz Jobim, senator, privy councillor, and physician of Emperor Dom Pedro II. José Martins added Jobim to his last name while studying medicine in Europe, honoring the village where his family migrated from in Portugal, the parish of Santa Cruz de Jovim, Porto, where his family is from. Nilza Brasileiro de Almeida's mother, Nilza Brasileiro de Almeida (c. 1910-1989), was of partially indigenous descent from northeastern Brazil.

When Antônio was a child, his parents were divorced and his mother went with her children (Antônio Carlos and his sister Helena Isaura, born 23 February 1931) to Ipanema, where the composer would later celebrate in his songs. Nilza married Celso da Frota Pessoa (died 2 February 1979), who would support his stepson's career in 1935, when the elder Jobim died. He was the one who gave Jobim his first piano. Jobim, a young man of limited means, made his living by playing in nightclubs and bars and later as an arranger for a record label before starting to be recognized as a composer.

Jobim's musical roots lay firmly in Pixinguinha's career, the influential guitarist and composer who introduced modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. L'cia Branco and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a German composer who lived in Brazil and introduced atonal and twelve-tone composition in the region from 1941 to 2007. Also influenced by French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, as well as Brazilian composer Ary Barroso and Heitor Villa-Lobos, who have been dubbed Jobim's "most important musical influence," have been attributed to this group. His lyrics, among many others, discussed love, self-discovery, betrayal, passion, and particularly the birds and natural wonders of Brazil, like the "Mata Atlântica" forest, characters of Brazilian folklore, and Rio de Janeiro's home town of Rio de Janeiro.

Personal life

Paulo Jobim (born 1950), an architect and singer (father of Daniel Jobim (born 1973) and Dora Jobim (born 1976), a painter, was married to Thereza Otero Hermanny on October 15th and had two children with her: (father of Daniel Jobim (born 1970) and Dora Jobim (born 1975). In 1978, Jobim and Thereza were divorced. He married Ana Beatriz Lontra, a 29-year-old photographer, with whom he had two more children, Joo Francisco Jobim (1979-1998) and Maria Luiza Helena Jobim (1989). During the inaugural ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Daniel, Paulo's nephew, followed his grandfather to become a pianist and composer, performing "The Girl from Ipanema."

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Career

Jobim began playing piano in Rio de Janeiro's bars and nightclubs, and in the first years of the 1950s, he served as an arranger in the Continental Studio, where he had his first composition recorded in April 1953, when Brazilian singer Maurici Moura composed Incerteza, a composition by Newton Mendonça.

When he teamed up with poet and diplomat Vinicius de Moraes to write the music for the play Orfeu da Conceiço (1956), Jobim became popular in Brazil. "If Everyone Were Like You" was the show's most popular song. Producer Sacha Gordine didn't want to use any of the existing music from the play when it was turned into a film later. Gordine's request for a new score for the film Orfeu Negro, or Black Orpheus (1959), was requested by Moraes and Jobim. Moraes lived in Montevideo, Uruguay, while working for the Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), so he and Jobim were only able to write three songs, mainly because of the phone ("A feliciidade") and "O nosso amor"). This collaboration was fruitful, and de Moraes continued to pen the lyrics to some of Jobim's most popular songs.

Joo Gilberto, a Brazilian singer and guitarist, released his first album in 1958: Desafinado and Chega de Saudade, two of Tom Jobim's most popular songs: Desafinado and Chega de Saudade. This album heralds the Bossa Nova movement in Brazil. The sophisticated harmonies of his songs attracted jazz players in the United States, particularly after Tom Jobim's first appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1962.

His collaboration with Brazilian jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, the Brazilian singer Joo Gilberto, and Gilberto's wife at the time, Astrud Gilberto, which resulted in two albums, Getz/Gilberto (1963) and Getz/Gilberto Vol. 2 (1964) Getz/Gilberto's debut established a bossa nova craze in the United States and then globally. Getz had previously performed Jazz Samba with Charlie Byrd (1962), as well as Jazz Samba Encore! Luiz Bonfá (1964). Jobim produced several of the songs on Getz/Gilberto, one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, as well as convert Astrud Gilberto (The Girl from Ipanema) and "Corcovado" (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) into a worldwide sensation. Getz/Gilberto received the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, and the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the Grammy Awards of 1965. The Grammy Award for Best of the Year went to "The Girl from Ipanema." "Waters of March, 1972"), one of his later hits, has "waters of Março" (Waters of March, 1972), for which he wrote both the Portuguese and English lyrics and then converted to French by Georges Moustaki (Les Eaux de Mars, 1973).

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