Brazilian "father of bossa nova" João Gilberto dies aged 88

Influential Brazilian singer and composer João Gilberto was known best as a pioneer of the bossa nova genre, which found international popularity in the 1960s, Huffington Post reports. Gilberto's style - mixing traditional samba music with modern jazz influences - inspired bossa nova, or new trend, with many other artists after him. His versions of songs like 'Quiet Nights' and 'The Girl from Ipanema' became standards in world music. LA Times writes about how Gilberto transformed global pop music.