Bandleader Sérgio Mendes, the godfather of bossa nova, was Brazil’s most celebrated artist in the Sixties. His most popular recording, “Mas Que Nada,” was originally penned and performed by ...

Sergio Mendes is perhaps the most durable survivor of a '60s Latin pop fad that produced such contemporaries as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and the Baja Marimba Band. Brasil '66 has seen many ...

A pianist, composer and arranger, he rose to fame with the group Brasil ’66 and remained a force in popular music for more than six decades. By Barry Singer Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian-born pianist, ...

Suffering from poor albums sales as a jazz-bossa pianist at Atlantic Records in 1965, Sérgio Mendes decided to listen to a recommendation made by Richard Adler, a producer at A&M Records. Adler, who ...

When Brazilian composer, producer, and arranger Sergio Mendes passed away in September, the music world lost an icon. Mendes, ...