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 ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian musician renowned for bringing bossa nova music to a global audience starting in the ’60s, has died. He was 83. The news was announced in a statement by his family, who ...

Sérgio Mendes, a musician who emerged with Brazil's bossa nova movement in the 1960s and became an ambassador for that country's music around the world, died Thursday in his adopted hometown of Los ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar and helped launched a long, Grammy-winning career, has died after months ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Hollywood Reporter) - The enduring cool of uncategorizable Brazilian music is deliciously, if incompletely, conveyed in "Beyond Ipanema," a documentary with appeal for hipsters and ...

In a quaint bungalow humming with Portuguese, a cool breeze of lilting harmonies and rhythmic bounce invites a leisurely sway to the tranquility of bossa nova. It’s a modern take on a sound pioneered ...

He helped popularize bossa nova music starting in the ’60s, especially with hit single 'Mas Que Nada.' Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian musician renowned for bringing bossa nova music to a global audience ...