Sergio Mendes ... appeal in his music, died Sept. 5 at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 83. His family released a statement ...

He also made music with Stevie Wonder who wrote Mendes' hit The Real Thing. And Sergio worked on a 007 song ... the Oscar-nominated The Look of Love during the Academy Awards in 1968.

The bandleader and composer is best known for the buoyant Latin pop hit Mas Que Nada, and putting Brazilian twists on English songs such as The Look Of Love ... album, Sergio Mendes, gave him ...

“Sergio Mendes was my brother from another country,” trumpeter Herb Alpert wrote on Facebook. “He was a true friend and an extremely talented musician who took Brazilian music in all its ...