They were two of Brazil’s biggest stars – the singer Elis Regina and the bossa nova trailblazer Tom Jobim – and they had come together in California hoping to make music history.
“It’s not every day Brazil’s greatest singer records with Brazil’s greatest composer,” Elis Regina’s music producer son, João Marcello Bôscoli, said of the now legendary encounter nearly 50 years ago, in the winter of 1974.
