According to her family, Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto died at the age of 83.

In the 1960s, she made “The Girl from Ipanema” an international success and gave a tremendous boost to the fledgling bossa nova genre.

In a social media statement, her granddaughter Sofia Gilberto said, “I come bearing the sad news that my grandmother became a star today and is next to my grandfather Joao Gilberto.”

The singer was born in 1940 in Salvador, the capital of Brazil’s northern state of Bahia, and was married to Joao Gilberto, a bossa nova pioneer who died in 2019.

Astrud Gilberto made 19 albums during her career, but she had little professional music experience until she turned Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes’ “The Girl from Ipanema” into a global sensation by singing the English lines alongside American saxophonist Stan Getz.

Gilberto became the first Brazilian to be nominated for a Grammy, which she won in 1965 for song of the year.

She eventually left her marriage for Getz and moved to the United States.

However, that chaotic moment in her life produced some of the most beloved recordings of all time, notably the live CD of the three friends’ October 1964 concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Gilberto, who was only 24 then, suffered from stage fear, which she overcame by enrolling in theater training at the Stella Adler acting college.

The stunning young brunette stunned audiences with her silky voice, which she brought on tour with Getz. She was dubbed “The Queen of Bossa Nova” for popularizing the rhythmic, laidback Brazilian musical style.