Bebel Gilberto's father João is credited with co-inventing bossa nova, so it's no surprise that she tried to experiment with the form on her debut, 2000's Tanto Tempo. The album's 11 tracks—now ...

What’s next for Bebel Gilberto? That was the question posed by many impressed by her acclaimed debut album Tanto Tempo (2000), a delicate bossa nova update dominated by the cut-and-paste mentality of ...

Bebel Gilberto may be the daughter of Joao Gilberto, one of the first bossa nova composers, but that's hardly her only claim to fame. Her album Tanto Tempo, produced by the electronic artist Suba, was ...

What the hell did we do to piss off Bebel Gilberto? The mercurial Brazilian songstress releases one of 2000’s most alluring albums, Tanto Tempo (Six Degrees), then teases Seattle with tour dates that ...

In its brief history, the Hollywood Bowl's World Festival has been far and away the most interesting, offbeat and, more often than not, most cleverly programmed series of concerts on the whole ...

Bebel Gilberto, 54, is a Brazilian-American singer whose album “Tanto Tempo” helped pioneer the electronic bossa nova movement in the early 2000s. Her new album is “Agora” (Plas America). She spoke ...

Bebel Gilberto is not “The Girl from Ipanema. ” Not quite: Gilberto was born nearly 40 years ago in New York and raised in Rio de Janeiro. She is, however, as famous as the woman, her father’s first ...

For the followup to her sumptuous "Tanto Tempo" -- the first Brazilian album to coalesce NPR listeners, club DJs, the electronica circuit and world music fans -- Bebel Gilberto has accentuated soft, ...

Tanto tempo, the million-selling debut of Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto, wasn’t just a fine record: it brought bossa nova, the form pioneered by her dad, Joao, to a whole new audience. The polished ...