The song “Girl from Ipanema” put the Ipanema Beach near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the map. Written in 1962, it was inspired by a seventeen-year-old Brazilian girl named Helô Pinheiro as she walked by a bar called Veloso. You can see a plaque on the table where Vinicius de Moraes is claimed to have written the lyrics. Fifty years later, Ipanema Beach still has beautiful waves, sand and women.
