Biography
Tom Jobim ( Antonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim was his baptismal name, 1927 - 1994), was a Brazilian composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and singer. He is considered as the most important representative of Brazilian music on the international scene, and as one of the musicians who played a decisive role in the creation of bossa nova.
He was born in Rio de Janeiro on January 25, 1927, the son of a wealthy diplomat. At the age of 2 he moved with his mother to a seaside residence in Ipanema which he would later praise in several of his songs. In 1931 his father died and his mother remarried. His stepfather supported his musical education by buying him his first piano. He was taught piano and guitar and from an early age began playing in nightclubs, in the early 1950s, he worked as an arranger at Continental Studio, where he recorded his first composition in 1953.
He became known in Brazil when he collaborated with the poet and diplomat Vinicius de Moraes to write music for the play Orfeu da Conceição (1956), and achieved worldwide fame by collaborating with the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz and the Brazilian singer João Gilberto. His songs like "Garota de Ipanema" (The Girl from Ipanema) and "Corcovado" (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) became huge hits, "The Girl from Ipanema" also won a Grammy Award. A string of hits followed and he is regarded as one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012 and was posthumously inducted into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2015, Billboard named Jobim one of the 30 most influential Latin artists of all time.
Zombie had 2 marriages (1949 and 1986) and had 2 children from each marriage. Since early 1994 he had problems with his urinary tract, he underwent surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on December 2. On December 8, 1994, while recovering from surgery, he had a cardiac arrest caused by a pulmonary embolism, and two hours later, another cardiac arrest, from which he died.