![]() This included the 1st Festival de Samba Session, conducted by the PUC's (Pontifical Universidade Catolica) student union. And in 1959, Nara Leão also participated in more than one embryonic display of bossa nova. This group consisted of Sylvinha Telles, Carlinhos Lyra, Nara Leão, Luizinho Eça, Roberto Menescal, et al. Castro claims that the term "bossa nova" might have first been used in publicity for a concert given in 1958 by the Grupo Universitário Hebraico do Brasil (University Hebrew Group of Brazil). In his book Bossa Nova, Brazilian author Ruy Castro asserts that "bossa" was already in use in the 1950s by musicians as a word to characterize someone's knack for playing or singing idiosyncratically. Within the artistic beach culture of the late 1950s Rio de Janeiro, the term "bossa" was used to refer to any new "trend" or "fashionable wave". The exact origin of the term "bossa nova" still remains uncertain. "O samba, a prontidão e outras bossas são nossas coisas, são coisas nossas" ("The samba, the readiness and other bossas are our things, are things from us"). As early as 1932, Noel Rosa used the word in a samba: In Brazil, the word "bossa" is slang for doing something with particular charm, natural flair or innate ability. 7 Bossa nova in pop music outside of Brazil.2 Origins and history of "bossa nova" musical style. ![]()
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