right|frame|Astrud GilbertoAstrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian singer best known for her samba and bossa nova music, most famously as the vocalist on the Grammy Award winning song "The Girl from Ipanema". Biography Astrud Gilberto was born Astrud Weinert the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a German father in the state of Bahia, Brasil, and was raised in Rio de Janeiro. In 1959, she married João Gilberto, later emigrating to the U.S. in 1963, when she sang in the influential Getz/Gilberto of João Gilberto, Stan Getz, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. She had never performed professionally, and sang in the recordings at the suggestion of her husband, João Gilberto; they divorced in the mid-sixties. Astrud Gilberto's successful singing of The Girl from Ipanema established her as a jazz singer. In 1964, Gilberto appeared in the films Get Yourself a College Girl and The Hanged Man