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For this 1999 CD, Lisa teams up with Oscar Castro-Neves, one of Brazil's best known bossa nova arrangers and composers. This is not a standard bossa nova album. For this release, the two decided to explore famous American songs and film music from the 1940's/50's, and recorded them with upbeat jazz and bossa nova arrangements. Songs are sung in English and Portuguese. This CD sold over 200,000 copies in Japan -- very good for a bossa nova release! Highlights include "On the Sunny Side of the Street", "Moonlight Serenade", and "Night and Day".

Lisa Ono is an extraordinary Bossa Nova singer which is why I bought this CD I just wanted all her CD's. You pay more for her but it's worth it. In this CD, she is singing in English instead of Portuguese, and she is singing some traditional US standards like On the Sunny Side of the Street, As Time Goes by, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, it's not her regular fare but she sings them with a good Bossa Nova spin. If you like these songs you might enjoy her rendition of them. Even if you did not like the original versions, listening to Lisa doing them might change your mind, but I would not recommend this as your first Lisa Ono CD.

Lisa Ono makes me happy. I have only to hear her voice in flight and whatever it is I was worrying about is gone. Wiped away. I can't think of many artists that have such a joyous effect on people as this beautiful, Brazilian-born, Japanese talent.