The Latin pop crossover star scored a series of international hits during a six-plus decade career, including "Mas Que Nada" ...

Tom Jobim and Jorge Ben Jor were among the artists ... In the U.S., the pianist expanded the reach of Brazilian music beyond bossa nova, forging connections over decades and introducing new ...

Mendes first became professionally active in the late 1950s and is widely recognized as a popularizer of Brazilian music ...

For decades, Mendes defined how American audiences heard and digested Brazilian music, first as part of influential bossa nova guitarist-composer’s Antônio Carlos Jobim’s band, then with his ...

Alongside peers like composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, singer-guitarist João Gilberto, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and guitarist Roberto Menescal, the music captured the city’s sensuous beach ...

By then, Jobim, João Gilberto and other Brazilian musicians were developing the new bossa nova sound, which Mr. Mendes quickly adopted as his own. The music spread worldwide, spurred in part by a ...

Brazilian jazz musician and pianist Sérgio Mendes has died at the age of 83, his family said in a statement on Friday. Mendes ...

via Antônio Carlos Jobim Institute In November of that year ... from Paul McCartney thanking him for his arrangement of the song. That same year, an appearance on the Academy Awards broadcast ...

Mendes was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro’s sister city, and studied classical music at a conservatory ... s nightclub scene with Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto and others.

Beloved bossa nova producer, composer, pianist and song interpreter Sérgio Mendes ... Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto, before forming his first band, the Sexteto Bossa Rio, with whom ...