Bebel Gilberto News

Bebel Gilberto insists she's never felt this way before -- in love, that is. What, the Brazilian neo-bossa chanteuse whose three previous discs practically drip with desire, has not known, as she might say in her native Portuguese, o poder do amor? Impossible.

There was no better, or warmer, place to be during Friday night's raw drizzle than the suddenly perfectly named Paradise, where the Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto happened to be holding court and conjuring balmy flights of fancy.

"People think that to make a musical career you have to live in the city," says Cuba, who is now based in Smithers, B.C. SUBMITTED PHOTO Cuba collaborates Alex Cuba's adventurousness and congeniality naturally leads him to collaborate with likeminded artists.

She makes her case on her new record, "All in One," a mix of originals, pop and reggae.. "I don't consider my music Brazilian anymore," the 43-year-old Gilberto said by phone from her home in New York.

A relative unknown at her solo debut, the now classic "Tanto Tempo," was released in 2000, Gilberto, 43, is now a bona fide international superstar who tours all too infrequently.

Brazilian pop singer Bebel Gilberto is probably known more in the U.S. for her collaborations than for her solo work, even though she is a native New Yorker.

Lionel Richie and Bebel Gilberto will make appearances in South Florida in the next two months.

Bebel Gilberto slipped into the American imagination with Tanto Tempo in 2000 and has refused to leave.

Turning an impossibly carnivalesque Carmen Miranda classic into a subtly feisty batucada is one of the triumphant gems included in Bebel Gilberto's fourth album All In One .

In bossa nova, the greatest artists, the most lasting ones, have always done a sort of uneasy double duty that is, perhaps, the very nature of the music itself.

Lemon Andersen, the child of heroin addicts who lost his parents to AIDS, is now a professional memoirist with a one-man show at the Public Theater.

This week: Jon Pareles reviews "Backspacer" by Pearl Jam and Nelly Furtado's Spanish-language release "Mi Plan." Also, the Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto performs in our studio and talks to Ben Sisario about her new CD.

That ol' Mark Knopfler, he just keeps rollin' along. Can't help but quote the classic Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein 'Show Boat' tune, as it applies so well to the former leader of Dire Straits.

Time spent in Jamaica, a new marriage and a deal with Verve are the driving factors for Brazilian vocalist Bebel Gilberto's fourth record, "All In One." The twelve song set - due September 29 - features a host of different producers, including Mark Ronson , the Brazilian Girls' keyboardist Didi Gutman, the Dust Brothers' John King and Daniel Jobim, ...

Time spent in Jamaica, a new marriage and a deal with Verve are the driving factors for Brazilian vocalist Bebel Gilberto's fourth record, "All In One." The twelve song set - due September 29 - features a host of different producers, including Mark Ronson , the Brazilian Girls' keyboardist Didi Gutman, the Dust Brothers' John King and Daniel Jobim, ...

Brazilian singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto loves camarao na moranga at Casa. Brazilian singer-songwriter Bebel Gilberto headlines at the Town Hall tonight to perform her take on the bossa nova sound made famous by her father, Joo Gilberto Her mother is singer Micha.

With so many different summer concert series, who has the time to keep track of whoa TMs playing when and where? Dona TMt panic, Viva has done the legwork.

The Town Hall , Times Squares landmark concert venue, is pleased to present Grammy-nominated Brazilian singer Bebel Gilberto on Friday, June 19 at 8PM.