Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer. Widely considered as one of the great exponents of Brazilian music, Jobim is the artist who internationalized bossa nova and, with the help of important American artists, merged it with jazz in the 1960s to create a new sound with remarkable popular success.

In 1965 his album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.It also won for Best Jazz Instrumental Album - Individual or Group and for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.The album's single "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema"), one of the most recorded songs of all time, won the Record of the Year.