All About The Girl From Ipanema

All about the Girl from Ipanema

Manuscript of "Garota de Ipanema" and Héloise Pinheiro. The legend IN 1962, ON her way home from school Héloisa Pinheiro regularly passed the Bar Veloso on Rua Montenegro in Rio de Janeiro's fashionable Ipanema district. The composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and poet Vinícius de Moraes, who were collaborating on a musical comedy, were hanging out in the bar. Every afternoon they watched her pass by, and were inspired to write "Garota de Ipanema". Later Jobim said, "She had long, golden hair, these bright green eyes that shone at you and a fantastic figure: let's just say that she had everything in the right place. ..." [Harold Emert, Insight Guide to Rio de Janeiro pp. 138-139] Now the street has been renamed "Rua Vinícius de Moraes" and the bar, "A Garota de Ipanema". But heartbreakingly beautiful girls still walk by every day. . . . The truth It has already been explained, but people find it hard to accept the truth: Jobim and Vinícius did not write "The Girl from Ipanema" | "Garôta de Ipanema" in the Veloso bar (today called Garota da Ipanema), which was on the street that used to be known as Rua Montenegro and is now Rua Vinícius de Moraes, at the intersection with Rua Prudente de Moraes (no relation). It was never the duo's style to write music sitting at a table in some bar, although they had probably spent the best hours of their lives in them. Jobim composed the melody meticulously on the piano at his new home in Rua Barro da Torre, and it was originally intended for a musical comedy entitled "Dirigível" | "Blimp," which Vinícius already had worked out in his head but had not yet committed to paper. Vinícius, in turn, had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio, as he had done with "Chega de Saudade" six years earlier, and it took him just as much work. To begin with, it wasn't originally called "Garota da Ipanema," but "Menina que passa" | "The Girl Who Passes By," and the entire first verse was different. As for the famous girl, Jobim and Vinícius did in fact see her pass by as they sat in the Veloso bar, during the winter of 1962— not just once, but several times, and not always on her way to the beach but also on her way to school, to the dressmaker, and even to the dentist. Mostly because Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, better known as Helô, who was eighteen years of age, five feet, eight inches tall, with green eyes and long, flowing black hair, lived in Rua Montenegro and was already the object of much admiration among patrons of the Veloso, where she would frequently stop to buy cigarettes for her mother— and leave to a cacophony of wolf-whistles. —Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World, by Ruy Castro, Pp. 239240."Garôta de Ipanema" was first recorded by Pery Ribeiro in 1962.

Called Bar Veloso in 1962, now called “Bar Garota de Ipanema” The girl? Yep. She's real. From Bossa Nova: “The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World”, by Ruy Castro "As for the famous girl, Jobim and Vinícius did in fact see her pass by as they sat in the Veloso bar, during the winter of 1962— not just once, but several times, and not always on her way to the beach but also on her way to school, to the dressmaker, and even to the dentist. Mostly because Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, better known as Helô, who was eighteen years of age, five feet, eight inches tall, with green eyes and long, flowing black hair, lived in Rua Montenegro and was already the object of much admiration among patrons of the Veloso, where she would frequently stop to buy cigarettes for her mother—and leave to a cacophony of wolf-whistles."

Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, better known as Helô then

This is Helô today. She even has her own website; http://www.garotadeipanema.com.br

Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from Ipanema goes walking, And when she passes each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!" When she walks she's like a samba that, Swings so cool and sways so gentle, That when she passes each one she passes goes "a-a-ah!" Oh, but I watch her so sadly, How can I tell her I love her? Yes, I would give my heart gladly But each day when she walks to the sea, She looks straight ahead not at me Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl from Ipanema goes walking, And when she passes I smile, but she doesn't see, She just doesn't see, No she doesn't see

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