Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes has died, Fox News Digital has learned. Mendes died peacefully Sept. 5 in Los Angeles with his wife, Gracinha Leporace Mendes, and his children by his side, a ...
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The 1960s are remembered as a decade with dramatic cultural changes taking place to a rock music soundtrack. But psychedelic rock wasn’t the only music shaking up the U.S. pop scene in the swinging ...
Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian composer, arranger and pianist whose melding of his native country’s traditional music with ’60s-vintage American pop, bossa nova, samba, funk and hints of cool jazz ...
Mendes: Paul McCartney enjoyed his uptempo version of the Beatles standard The Fool on the Hill - Jim McCrary/Redferns Sérgio Mendes, who has died in Los Angeles aged 83, created a string of worldwide ...
He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...
When Sergio Mendes reflects on the amazing journey he calls life, from his formative years at the forefront of a bossa nova revolution through his Oscar-nominated work on "Rio" to the recent ...
LOS ANGELES — Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova impresario and pianist who helped popularize the genre in the ‘60s and toured with Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, has died. The recording artist ...
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 ...
Had Sergio Mendes stopped band-leading 30 years ago, his pop legacy -- as a godfather of Latin lounge music -- would have been secure. Mendes came to the 9:30 club Thursday with a young new troupe and ...
Sergio Mendes, the innovative and influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family has confirmed. No ...