W hen Brazilian composer, producer, and arranger Sergio Mendes passed away in September, the music world lost an icon. Mendes, both with and without his renowned group Brasil ’66, was ...

Sergio Mendes, the acclaimed pianist, composer, and arranger who significantly shaped the sound of Brazilian music on the global stage, has died at the age of 83. Mendes passed away on Thursday in ...

During the late 1960s, Sérgio Mendes was the biggest-selling Brazilian artist in the world Brazilian musician ... waned until the 1983 comeback album, Sergio Mendes, gave him the biggest chart ...

A name that’s synonymous with boss nova, Sérgio Mendes was one of the first Brazilian exports to bring the genre into ...