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These People Influenced the World’s Most Famous Songs

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“The Girl from Ipanema” by Astrud Gilberto

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A teenager, Heloisa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, inspired this song as she strolled along the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in 1962. The composers saw her every day buying cigarettes for her mother and were inspired to write the song.