João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira (June 10, 1931) is a Brazilian songwriter, guitarist, singer who pioneered the genre of Bossa Nova in the 1950s.

Gilberto in 2008

In 1963, he and Stan Getz would write the song, The Girl from Ipanema, a song that would later be featured in My Little Pony: The Movie.

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