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Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Song “Surfboard”: Inspired by Malibu’s Surfrider Beach

Posted September 13, 2012 by | 14 Comments

When bossa nova exploded in America and everywhere else in the early 1960s, Jobim was its star.  His catchy songs were played everywhere.  The “Girl from Ipanema” made Rio’s famous beach famous.  But another song was inspired by a beach in California.

Jobim was in LA at the time recording The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim with Nelson Riddle.   Somebody took him to Malibu Surfrider Beach, the famous point break ten miles north of LA made famous by super surfers Miki Dora, Johnny Fain, Dewey Weber, and others.  Jobim was so entranced by the perfect waves and the surfers riding them that he bought a surfboard and took it back to Brazil as a present for his son Paulo.

Today surfing in Brazil is widespread and Brazilian surfers are among the best in the world, winning big wave contests on Oaha’s northshore competitions.  With thousands of miles of coastline and far more surf spots than California or Hawaii, surfing has attracted thousands if not millions of young Brazilians and surfing is now up there with soccer as one of its greatest sports.

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    He couldn't have chosen a better inspiration. Malibu is one of the best spots in the world to hang ten and is renowned for its surf safety policies.

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