# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joao-gilberto
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:39.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joao-gilberto"
name: "João Gilberto"
slug: "joao-gilberto"
description: "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\" .\nIn 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.\nGilberto'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."
tagline: "Brazilian musician, pioneer of bossa nova (1931–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jo%C3%A3o_Gilberto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "BR"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1931-06-10"
deathDate: "2019-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump