the George Gershwin of Brazil
Antonio Carlos Jobim was the supreme exponent of Brazilian music for decades, and the name most associated with "bossa nova", but more than that, he was one of the greatest composers of popular music of the 20th century. His songs have been recorded around the world by hundreds of the most popular jazz and pop musicians and singers of their eras.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ant%C3%B4nio-carlos-jobim-mn0000781837/biography
It has been said that Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was the George Gershwin of Brazil, and there is a solid ring of truth in that, for both contributed large bodies of songs to the jazz repertoire, both expanded their reach into the concert hall, and both tend to symbolize their countries in the eyes of the rest of the world. With their gracefully urbane, sensuously aching melodies and harmonies, Jobim 's songs gave jazz musicians in the 1960s a quiet, strikingly original alternative to their traditional Tin Pan Alley source.
....At the time of his final concerts in Brazil in September 1993 and at Carnegie Hall in April 1994 (both available on Verve), Jobim at last was receiving the universal recognition he deserved, and a plethora of tribute albums and concerts followed in the wake of his sudden death in New York City of heart failure. Jobim 's reputation as one of the great songwriters of the century is now secure, nowhere more so than on the jazz scene, where every other set seems to contain at least one bossa nova.
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He was truly a giant as a composer.
Simply one of the very best.
He's also known as Tom Jobim.
This is one of my favorites- "Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar" (I Know that I Will Love You). The singer's name is Maria Creuza.
Very nice.
Jobim was one of the great composers of melody in the past hundred years.