João Gilberto
Ho ba la la lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Portuguese
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Bossa Nova
- Length
- 2:18
Uma canção
A song
Quem ouvir o oba - lá - lá
Whoever hears the oba-lá-lá
Terá feliz o coração
Will have a happy heart
O amor encontrará
Love will find
Ouvindo esta canção
Listening to this song
Alguém compreenderá
Someone will understand
Seu coração
Your heart
Vem ouvir o oba - lá - lá
Come hear the oba-lá-lá
Oba - lá - lá
Oba-lá-lá
Esta canção
This song
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Key vocabulary
- canção
- songA2
- ouvir
- hearA1
- terá
- will have
- feliz
- happyA2
- coração
- heartB1
- amor
- loveB2
- encontrará
- will find
- ouvindo
- hearing
- alguém
- someoneA2
- compreenderá
- will understand
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About this song
João Gilberto was a Brazilian singer and guitarist associated with bossa nova, and one of its key architects. He is known for shaping the style through understated acoustic guitar rhythms and a restrained vocal approach that helped define the samba and jazz-informed sound, including on seminal recordings such as Chega de Saudade and Getz/Gilberto.