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Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian singer, composer, bandleader, and keyboardist who became an international sensation after moving to the United States in the 1960s, died, in Los Angeles, on September ...
The New Haven-based Bossa Nova Project, which Mendes and Carter co-founded, draws its inspiration from the bossa nova movement that arose out of Brazil in the 1960s and swept the world with its urbane ...
“Sete de Setembro” marks Brazil’s Independence Day, and Brazilian musicians are introducing new audiences to samba, tropicália, baião, and bossa nova.
Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but defied confinement to any single genre, has died at the age of 88.
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.
Beloved bossa nova producer, composer, pianist and song interpreter Sérgio Mendes has died at 83. The legendary Brazilian superstar whose career spanned more than three dozen albums released ...
Sergio Mendes, the influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, has died.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Joao Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an ...
Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian singer, composer, bandleader, and keyboardist who became an international sensation after moving to the United States in the 1960s, died, in Los Angeles, on September ...
Sergio Mendes, the influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, has died.
Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian singer, composer, bandleader, and keyboardist who became an international sensation after moving to the United States in the 1960s, died, in Los Angeles, on September ...