Her name was Heloisa Pinheiro and she never made a dime from the song. In fact, she got sued by the widows of the songwriters - you see, Pinheiro had a shop called "The Girl From Ipanema".
They won, she lost and had to change her boutique's name. Seems like a jerk move to me.
Click through to read the whole story of the song and the lawsuit. And click here for a very nice rendition of the song.
And just let me point out that the first link is to a fifteen year old blog post. That was back in the Blogosphere's Cretaceous Period, and ambisinistral is still blogging. As they say in Ipanema, parabéns!
UPDATE 19 August 2020 15:17: Must read follow up here.
3 comments:
Like your blog header. So few will understand but so many will leap to denounce.
Hey, thanks for the linkage. Until you mentioned it, the fact that the post was 15 years old never registered. It has been a long time, for both of us. Anyway, I love the song and the craziness that occasionally orbits it is the cherry on top.
Interesting backstory, such as it is, and there is NOTHING worse than a scorned woman who is Hispanic...
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