(MUSIC / MUSIC DIRECTOR) To compose the music score for BOSSA NOVA, Bruno Barreto invited Eumir Deodato, a talented pianist, composer, and one of the most prolific and respected music producers of the Brazilian music industry. Eumir Deodato wrote the original music for the film, as well as new orchestrations for 10 songs by Tom Jobim. "I didn't want to show the Bossa Nova of the '60s, but a '90s reinterpretation it." "Eumir Deodato, who's worked in several of Tom Jobim's albums, was the ideal person to make that updated reading of his work," explains the director.

A member of Roberto Menescal's first group, Eumir Deodato has created music arrangements for several recording artists, such as Durval Ferreira, Leny Andrade and Quarteto em Cy. His innumerous credits include the album in which Frank Sinatra sings Tom Jobim's greatest hits in English, such as Drinking Water (Água de Beber), Someone to Light Up My Life (Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você), Wave (Vou Te Contar), One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota Só), which is considered a landmark in Tom Jobim and Bossa Nova's international road to public acclaim.

On the screen, Mr. Deodato wrote music scores for several hit films, including Garota de Ipanema (Leon Hirszman), Os Aventureiros, Gentle Rain (with Luis Bonfá), The Onnion Field, Target Risk, The Midnight Sun, Break Dancing and Ghostbusters II. Not to mention his acclaimed adaptation of Thus Spoke Zaratustra, by Richard Strauss, a major hit thanks to the success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eumir Deodato's version eventually became m,ore popular than the soundtrack of the film itself.