Bossa nova - Wikipedia In his book Bossa Nova, Brazilian author Ruy Castro asserts that bossa was already in use in the 1950s by musicians as a word to characterize someone's knack for playing or singing idiosyncratically
Bossa nova | Brazilian, Jazz, Samba | Britannica bossa nova, Brazilian popular music that evolved in the late 1950s from a union of samba (a Brazilian dance and music) and cool jazz The music is in syncopated 2 4 time