Nearly everyone can hum at least a few lines of the famous bossa nova classic, “The Girl From Ipanema.” But most don’t know the story of the girl who inspired the song by lyricist Vinicius ...

The woman who inspired "The Girl From Ipanema" discusses how the song changed her life. IE 11 is not supported. ... As a teenager, Helo Pinheiro was a regular on Rio's Ipanema Beach.

The Manchete magazine article that revealed the real Girl from Ipanema, Helo Pinheiro, with text by Vinicius de Moraes. Credit: “Her name is Heloisa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, but everyone calls ...

Helô Pinheiro, 71, the woman immortalized by the 1960s classic “Girl from Ipanema,” will carry the Olympic torch in the 2016 Summer Games torch relay. CNN values your feedback 1.

The 'Girl From Ipanema', a.k.a. Helo Pinheiro. (Credit: Gilberto Haider) “They gave me this song as a gift,” she says now. “I just have to say thanks, because my life is so much more bright. ...

Helo Pinheiro the girl from Ipanema at the beach! That’s an original picture of the Girl from Ipanema, Helo Pinheiro, at the beach in the 60s. Now the street has been renamed Rua Vinícius de Moraes ...

‘The Girl from Ipanema’, composed in the early 1960s by Brazilian musicians Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, with English lyrics by Norman Gimbel, became an international hit and ...

Astrud Gilberto, the bossa nova singer most famous for her recording of “Girl From Ipanema,” widely viewed as the unofficial cultural anthem of Brazil, has died at age 83.