Originally Posted by
TMonk
not directly so often, although he is a big influence in the development of Bossa Nova. I hear him in some of his collaborations with American jazzmen, and through some of the compositions he has written, like Manha de Carnava, one of the first jazz charts I learned to read.
also, that song (Sevilla) was sampled from Gotye in his track "Somebody that I used to know", which of course reached astronomical success.
yeah, you caught me on the origin of the "accidental" discovery.