The Boy From Ipanema, by Diana Krall. @hcrun
The Boy From Ipanema, by Diana Krall.  @hcrun
Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The fourth track on Diana Krall's 2009 CD, "Quiet Nights".
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The famous Bossa Nova song was written in 1962.
Originally composed in Portuguese as "Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl from Ipanema), the iconic English version "The Boy From Ipanema" was later recorded by various artists (including Peggy Lee and Nancy Wilson) as a gender-swapped rendition.
The original music was written by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes and English lyrics by Norman Gimbel.
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Diana Jean Krall OC OBC (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer known for her contralto vocals.
She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the U.S.
On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second-greatest jazz artist of the decade (2000–2009), establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time.

Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debut at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.
To date, she has won two Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards. She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums.

Much more about Diana may be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Krall
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
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"The Boy From Ipanema", by Diana Krall.

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