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 ...

In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...

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 died ...

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The two time Grammy winner died on Thursday, Sept. 5, in a Los Angeles hospital Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian Grammy-winning musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months of battling the effects of long Covid. He was 83. The ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Bossa Nova, Jon Lusk charts its rise, from Rio's beaches to a cultural force that shaped politics and fashion If there's one style of music that people everywhere ...

João Gilberto, the pioneering Brazilian musician and composer credited as “the father of bossa nova,” has died at the age of 88. Gilberto’s son João Marcelo Gilberto confirmed his father’s death ...

“Holy grail” level vinyl rarities from influential Brazilian musicians celebrated in excellent, unexpected reissues. Once in a great while the stars align in the world of record collecting and very ...

He was 88 years old. LONDON -- Joao Gilberto, one of the pioneers of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian musical genre characterized by a subtle mix of Samba and Jazz, died in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, ...