Jobim is alive and well in Barcelona

If only this were true. Antonio Carlos Jobim, the legendary Brazilian composer and musician who co-invented bossa nova, died in 1994, at the age of 67, from complications following heart surgery. However, Jobim’s music — which celebrates life, love, and nature — continues to inspire singers and musicians to this day. It says much about the lasting impact and influence of his work that subsequent generations of Brazilian musicians — and those elsewhere around the globe — have carried on the genre in the decades since the bossa nova craze peaked in the mid-1960s.