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July 7, 1943 (age 81) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Occupation. Businessperson. Years active. 1962–2003 (model) Website. garotadeipanema.com.br. Heloísa Eneida Paes Pinto Mendes Pinheiro[1] (born July 7, 1943), better known as Helô Pinheiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [eˈlo piˈɲejɾu]), is a Brazilian businesswoman and former model.
Aug 8, 2016 · More than half a century after her bikini-clad body inspired a song about the Brazilian beach where she was a regular, the original "Girl From Ipanema" continues to stir curiosity. Helo Pinheiro ...
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Creed Taylor. " Garota de Ipanema " (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡaˈɾotɐ dʒipɐ̃ˈnemɐ]), " The Girl from Ipanema ", is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by ...
Nov 1, 2023 · “The Girl From Ipanema” 1965 (Image: Heloísa Pinheiro) When they wrote this iconic song in 1962, married composer Antonio Carlos Jobim was 35 years old, and lyricist Vinicius de Moraes, who ...
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Helo (full name at the time: Heloísa Eneida de Menezes Paes Pinto) was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro on the Rua Montenegro, just a short walk from Ipanema and a beach bar called Bar Veloso that would soon be a site of musical history. Ipanema Beach was a trendy part of southern Rio de Janeiro and the perfect spot for spending mornings and after...
The song first took off in Rio, then the whole of Brazil, and by 1964, the rest of the world took notice. It was translate into English, performed with both English and the original Portuguese lyrics, and was only outsold by The Beatles. It went on to win a Grammy in 1965, and continues on today as the second most recorded song in pop, second only,...
The early fame and popularity of the song naturally brought plenty of attention to Ipanema, with everyone in 1964 Rio wondering who was the real girl from Ipanema. The sensation prompted many women to claim the title, and even more people to try to capitalize on the mystery; many people would sell alleged photographs of “the girl” to tourists. Mean...
Now internationally recognized, the Brazilian beauty could not pursue her overnight stardom, instead in 1966 marrying Fernando Mendes Pinheiro, whom she had been dating since she was 15 and to whom she is still happily married today. She reflects in her 1996 autobiography Por Causa do Amor: “The middle class philosophy was to discourage and even re...
Now a 73-year-old grandmother, Pinheiro still makes heads turn. The self-conscious days of her teenage self are clearly gone, as she steps out confidently on Ipanema Beach in bikinis, with her toned figure and youthful skin that women 20+ years younger envy. At the late age of 42, she became a Playboy Playmate, and then again at age 58, when she po...
Pinheiro’s secret to aging so gracefully actually isn’t much of a secret—at least, not to Brazilian women. Natural beauty is only one small part of a much grander cultural interest in health and skin care. Having the expansive Amazon Rainforest in their backyard doesn’t hurt either; Brazilian women are known for their DIY, at-home skin care treatme...
More than 50 years ago, two Brazilian songwriters spotted a 17-year-old girl strolling near the beach in Ipanema, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, and were ...
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May 9, 2018 · She lived in Ipanema and would go out shopping or to the beach, often accompanied by wolf-whistles from locals. Morales later wrote a book called Revelação: a verdadeira Garota de Ipanema – Revealed: The Real Girl from Ipanema – where he describes Pinheiro and the effect she unintentionally had on him and Jobim.
