[jki275]

How things are viewed in Brazil might be one thing.

Worldwide? She's the one. Her version of the song is the song. Nobody outside Brazil has ever heard of anyone else. The producer who took all the money for her performance of it robbed her.

[simiones]

It's not "her" version of the song, it's just a version that she sung (some) of the lyrics on. She didn't compose the song, she isn't performing it a capella (there's a band including some famous musicians like Stan Getz or Tom Jobim), she didn't compose or translate the lyrics, she didn't compose the sung part. She certainly isn't singing the saxophone solo. It's absurd to attribute the success of the song solely to her. Should she have gotten more? Absolutely! But she's ultimately just a minor part of the song.

[bloak]

It's not "nobody" because I've never been to South America, but I know the song well, sung by various male performers, or just the tune without a singer, and I'd never heard of Astrud Gilberto.

I don't think that "session musicians" should have an automatic right to royalties.

[brvsft]

I'd never heard this woman's name before, yet I know the two who actually created this album. I'm from the US.

You're posing a disgusting assertion as a tourist to this music, based on some article you read on the internet.