Girls from Ipanema. "The Girl from Ipanema" is a Brazilian bossa nova song that was widely sung around the world in the mid-1960s and won the 1965 Grammy Award for Production of the Year. This song is considered the second most recorded song in history, only Second to the Beatles' "Yesterday", translated into Chinese is Ipanema Girl. Bossa nova is a slow-tempo lyrical Latin American music that originated in the 1950s and 1960s. With its soft and complex syncopated rhythms, concise and changeable melodies, bossa nova creates a tranquil, fresh or The lazy and ambiguous sound atmosphere is widely loved by people, and its influence has spread all over the world.