In 1949 he married his first wife, Thereza Hermanny they raised a son, Paulo, and a daughter, Elisabeth. Visits to Rio by the Duke Ellington Orchestra and other American jazz bands shaped Jobim's own attempts at composition (which he buried in a drawer at first) and inspired him to settle on a musical career. His real energies were directed toward music, as he gained experience playing piano in small nightclubs known as inferninhos, or little infernos. Jobim enrolled in architecture school, lasted less than a year, and worked as an assistant to a local architect in the early 1940s. Jobim would later point to the influence exerted by French Impressionist composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel on his own music, but a new set of influences was on its way to Brazil in the form of American jazz.
Jobim's mother, Nilza, rented a piano for the family home, and when Jobim was 14 he began piano lessons with Hans Joachim Koellrutter, a local music scholar of German background who favored the latest experimental trends in European classical music. But Jobim took after an uncle who played classical guitar, and he soon showed unusual talent of his own. Both of Jobim's parents were educators, and his father, Jorge Jobim, was also active as a diplomat.
He grew up in the seaside southern Rio suburb of Ipanema, later the setting for his most famous song, and many of his compositions reflected Brazil's lush natural world in one way or another. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally.Īntonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, often known by the nickname Tom, was born in Rio de Janeiro on January 25, 1927. Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer and pianist/guitarist.
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