Bossa Nova means“New Trend”: it is a new way of playing Samba. It happened in the 50’s, when a more intimate and less percussive kind of sound begun to circulate, thanks to musicians as Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto (his Bim-Bom is considered to be one of the first Bossa Nova songs) and Vinicius de Moraes. If Samba came from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Bossa Nova was born in its sophisticated beachside neighborhoods. From Rio Zona Sul through the United States, where it mixed with Jazz, it reached worldwide success. The Festival of Carnegie Hall held in New York in 1962 has been a the international milestone of Bossa Nova, as the recordings of Jazz musician Stan Getz with João Gilberto (1963). But the big boom arrived 1 year later, with the Getz/Gilberto recording “The Girl From Ipanema”, the most popular Bossa Nova song ever. After this peak and after many many masterpieces (listen for exemple Chico Buarque), Bossa Nova is going through an experimental phase, mixing with electronic music.