In 1964 a song about Heloisa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto was a big hit around the world, what was its title?
Heloísa Pinheiro as the original "girl from Ipanema" ("garota de Ipanema") was cited as evidence that they had intended to bestow this title on her. The court ruled in favor of Pinheiro. Heloísa Pinheiro Heloísa Eneida Paes Pinto Mendes Pinheiro, better known as Helô Pinheiro (; born July 7, 1945), is a Brazilian model and businesswoman. At the age of 17, Pinheiro became the source of inspiration for the song "The Girl from Ipanema" when songwriters Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes saw her strolling to the beach in Ipanema, her native neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. Pinheiro became a Brazilian
The Girl from Ipanema mannerisms, proved a perfect fit for the song. Ethel Ennis and Nat King Cole have also both recorded the song. The song was inspired by Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now known as Helô Pinheiro), a seventeen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in Ipanema. Daily, she would stroll past the Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf-whistles. In the winter of 1962, the composers saw