Bikini Nova

60's Body Beautiful & Bossa Nova

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The 60s in Brazil
 gave the world a new more revealing bikini

The thong bikini, which first appeared in Brazil in the 1970s was slow to be adopted in North America but since the dawn of the 3rd millennium has been increasing popularity on the beaches of North America and even more so as a practical undergarment. [more Bikini History PartII]

"The Girl from Impanema"
has ranked as high as the 2nd most performed & recorded song in the world!
 [right after the Beatle's "Yesterday"]
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It was also a pivotal song in the history of Bossa Nova Music
Girl from Ipanema

Bikini History Part I

Early Rome & the Body

To Samba, they added Jazz to create
"the new beat"

It was the
"whisper heard around the world."

Bossa-Nova can be translated as "the new beat" or "new wave". Antonio Carlos Jobim is credited as naming the Bossa Nova to describe João Gilberto'snew musical style, although a few even give him single-handed credit for creating the rhythm from his earlier collaboration with the multi-talented playright, Vinicius de Moraes, when the two collaborated to create the songs for his musical "Black Orpheus or Orfeo Negro." João did record the first song, Definado [Out of Tune], written by Jobin in July 1957, which first presented the defining signatures of his guitar with violao gago (stuttering guitar) and canto flado (spoken singing)singing style.
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