'Girl from Ipanema' vocalist Astrud Gilberto dead at 83

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
RIO DE JANEIRO - Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made "The Girl from Ipanema" a worldwide sensation in
the 1960s and provided a huge boost to the budding bossa nova genre, has died at age 83, her family said.