Sergio Mendes, a Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger whose group Brasil ’66 offered a tropical-flavored countermelody to ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian bossa nova impresario who helped popularize the genre in the '60s and toured with Herb Alpert and Frank Sinatra, has died. The recording artist died "peacefully ...

Called Brasil '66, it featured two American singers ... but his commercial fortunes waned until the 1983 comeback album, Sergio Mendes, gave him the biggest chart hit of his career - a cover ...