RIO DE JANEIRO — A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80. A hospital near Sao Paulo said Alf died Thursday evening. Pianist Johnny Alf was called the ...

Leny Andrade, a Brazilian singer who helped craft a new genre by fusing the country’s mellow bossa nova sound with jazz influences, including scat improvisations that drew comparisons to Ella ...

Johnny Alf, an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova, died on March 4 in Santo Andre, Brazil, just outside Sao Paulo.

Johnny Alf, a Brazilian pianist and singer credited with inventing Bossa Nova, has died. He was 80... Alf died Thursday in a Sao Paulo hospital of multiple organ failure after a fight with prostate ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80. Pianist Johnny Alf was called the “true father of Bossa Nova” by Ruy Castro, ...