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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (150 music items)"In the mid-1960s, Verve Records thought that a collaboration between Astrud Gilberto's husband Joao Gilberto and saxophonist Stan Getz would be what would jettison Brazilian bossa nova—which melded samba and jazz together—into the American popular consciousness. The Getz/Gilberto combo was a hit, but it was Astrud's voice — fragile, yet cool and sophisticated — singing "The Girl from Ipanema" that topped the charts and helped usher in a stateside Bossa Nova craze. Some thought her sound "