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Anitta, ‘The Girl From Rio,’ on Interpolating the Classic ‘Ipanema’ Melody for a U.S. Pop Breakthrough

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Chris Willman Music WriterThe song that is widely held to be the second most-covered song of all time — after the Beatles’ “Yesterday” — is “The Girl From Ipanema,” aka “Garota de Ipanema,” whose ubiquitousness was so taken for granted for decades that the very appearance of its opening bars could make it a musical punchline in comedies from “The Blues Brothers” to “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Yet few people under 40 would probably recognize the early 1960s Brazilian bossa nova turned American pop smash, even though more contemporary artists like Amy Winehouse and Diana Krall have joined the vintage likes of Stan Getz & Astrid Giiberto, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald in putting their own spin on “Girl”-watching.

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