英语听力:自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—19(在线收听

 It is a true story, you know, he used to play his… to, to study his guitar and he would study the part of the thumb like this, ting, ting, he would go like that. The thing is there was a cat watching that. And poor cat was just…and he would look at the cat and play ting, ting, ting…for hours, you know, just to exercise his thumb/. And the cat couldn’t resist. The cat jumped out from the eighth floor down there. The cat killed himself.

 
If Joao Gilberto was the greatest bossa performer, and the greatest bossa composer was Antonio Carlos Jobim, better known simply as Tom Jobim who wrote the melodies for many of Joao Gilberto’s hits and was himself an impressive singer and pianist. 
 
I think that for me, he was the most important songwriter, Brazilian songwriter, because I think that Jobim, he has everything, he has Brazil in itself, I mean he has the mountains, he has the forest, he has the sun…
 
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