I have an ecclectic music taste. I like different kinds of music, from Guns 'n Roses to Jobim. from Lenny Kravitz to The Rolling Stones to Coldplay.
Tonight I'm listening to bossa nova. Well, this music is bliss. I would like to have lived in the sixties, sipping martinis in Copacabana and Ipanema.
Stan Getz and Jobim created masterpieces. Desafinado and Corcovado are classics. The girl from Ipanema let's your mind travel to Delfim Moreira Av. and dream about beautiful Brazilian girls.
So tonight I'll stick with bossa nova. Please skip Frank Sinatra singing bossa nova. He is much better with other standards, not with Brazilian ones.
Please listen to Astrud Gilberto:
Quiet nights of quiet stars
quiet chords from my guitar
floating on the silence that surrounds us
Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams
Quiet walks by quiet streams
and a window that looks out on Corcovado
Oh, how lovely
Um cantihno, Um violao (A sweet song, a guitar)
Este amor, Uma cancao (This love, A song)
P'ra fazer feliz a quem se ama (To make happy whom is loved.)
Muita calma p'ra pensar (Much calm to think)
E ter tempo p'ra sonhar (And have time to dream)
Da janela ve-se o Corcovado (From the window, Corcovado can be seen)
O Redentor, que lindo! (The Redeemer, how beautifull!)
Quero a vida sempre assim (I want life to always be like this.)
Com vocé perto de mim (With you right next to me)
até o apagar da velha chama. ('till the love ends.)
E eu que era triste (And I who was sad)
Descrente deste mundo (Having lost faith in this world)
Ao encontra voce eu conheci (I found you and then I knew)
o que é felicidade, meu amor (what happiness is, my love )
So danço samba!
