Brazil Beach Girl
A very famous song immortalized one particular brazil beach girl forever – “The Girl from Ipanema.” Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote the music for this song and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes wrote the Portuguese lyrics in 1962. The song was inspired by a real brazil beach girl – Heloisa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto. She was an eighteen-year-old beach girl who Jobim and Moraes saw strolling down the streets of Ipanema, a district of Rio de Janeiro, on her way to the beach. The beaches of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are known for both their natural beauty and the natural beauties such as Heloisa that they attract.
The song was so popular; it has been recorded by many other artists over the years. Many believe that this beach girl song is the second most covered song in history. It has been covered by such great artists as Lou Rawls, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. It also inspired a Brazilian musical in 1967 titled “Garota de Ipanema.” However, for all the success the song has achieved, the original Brazil beach girl, Heloisa, never made a penny from the song. In fact, when she opened a clothing shop and called it “The Girl from Ipanema,” Jobim and Moraes sued her.
Every since this song became a hit, males all over the world have dreamed of meeting their own brazil beach girl.
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