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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 14 > Johnny Alf, bossa nova precursor

Johnny Alf, bossa nova precursor

By New York Times News Service / The Bulletin
March 14, 2010

Johnny Alf, an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova, died March 4 in Santo Andre, Brazil, just outside Sao Paulo. He was 80. The cause was prostate cancer, said his manager, Nelson Valencia.

Though he was not....

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