Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on “The Girl from Ipanema” made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, has died at age 83.

In the early 1960s, a young woman would stroll past a bar in Ipanema, southern Rio de Janeiro, nearly every day. Her walk was said to make everyone swoon and she was soon noticed by the regulars at ...

Some songs you can leave as soon as you hear them. Others, like these one-hit wonders from the 1960s, you want to hear ...