Was the girl from Ipanema a real person?
Meet the real-life Girl from Ipanema Helo Pinheiro was a 17-year-old fixture on the Rio beach (“tall and tan and young and lovely”) in 1962, when she caught the eye of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, who along with poet Vinicius De Moraes would create the bossa nova classic. Who is the original singer of Girl…