# João Gilberto

> João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto, was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. Around the world, he was often called the "father of bossa nova"; in his native Brazil, he was referred to as "O Mito" .
In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It also won Best Jazz Instrumental Album - Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Gilberto's Amoroso was nominated for a Grammy in 1978 in the category Best Jazz Vocal Performance. In 2001 he won in the Best World Music Album category with João voz e violão.

*Brazilian musician, pioneer of bossa nova (1931-2019)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/joao-gilberto

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** Brazil
- **Born:** 1931-06-10
- **Died:** 2019-07-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 56.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.5 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.7 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 2.6 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 80.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/Joao_Gilberto (@Joao_Gilberto)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318291/ (@nm0318291)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/77ZUbcdoU5KCPHNUl8bgQy (@77ZUbcdoU5KCPHNUl8bgQy)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.joaogilberto.com/

## Timeline
- **2019** - Died
- **2017** - Honorary Doctorate from Columbia University
- **2005** - Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
- **2001** - Latin Grammy Hall of Fame
- **2001** - Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album
- **2001** - International Latin Music Hall of Fame
- **1965** - Grammy Award for Album of the Year
- **1931** - Born

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