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 ...

Like a Wayback Machine, certain sights, sounds, smells and tastes transports us to certain times and places in our lives. Listening to Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 from their hitmaking days from four ...

Fronted by his widow (and longtime musical partner) Gracinha Leporace, the tour rolled into New Jersey on Sunday. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director Sixty years ago, Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 ...

4 Music Icon Bonnie Tyler, Featured on WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND Album, Dies at 75 Craft Recordings is pleased to announce a vinyl reissue of Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66's long-out-of-print album Greatest ...

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, ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova legend who became a Grammy-winning international star with his band Brasil ’66, has died at the age of 83. The musician’s family confirmed he died September 5 ...

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 ...

Sergio Mendes, a Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger whose group Brasil ’66 offered a tropical-flavored countermelody to the hard edge of rock-and-roll in the late 1960s and who had a late-career ...

In the span of about six decades, the famed Brazilian composer and performer, Sérgio Mendes, has worked with Cannonball Adderly, Herb Alpert, Lani Hall, Quincy Jones, John Legend, Will.i.am, and many ...