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Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1961 – present)

Sérgio Santos Mendes, pron. IPA: [’sɛxʒiu ‘sɐ̃tus ‘mẽ’dʒis], (born February 11, 1941 in Niterói, Brazil) is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk.

Mendes is married to Gracinha Leporace who regularly performs vocals for her husband and can also be heard on his 2006 version of the song Mas Que Nada with the Black Eyed Peas.

Early career

The child of a physician in Niterói, Brazil, Mendes attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As his interest in jazz grew, he started playing in nightclubs in the late-1950s just as bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, was taking off. Mendes played with Antônio Carlos Jobim (whom he regarded as a mentor) and many U.S. jazz musicians who toured Brazil.

Mendes formed the Sexteto Bossa Rio and recorded Dance Moderno in 1961. Touring Europe and the United States, Mendes recorded albums with Cannonball Adderley and Herbie Mann and played Carnegie Hall. Mendes moved to the U.S. in 1964 and cut two albums under the Brasil ‘65 group name with Capitol Records and Atlantic Records.

Brasil ‘66
When sales were tepid, he replaced his Brazilian born vocalist Wanda de Sa with the distinctive voice of Chicago native Lani Hall (who learned Mendes’ Portuguese material phonetically), switched to Herb Alpert’s A&M label

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pulsar00 wrote:
last month

Chove Chuva [*****]

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starbot wrote:
last month

<3

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TEKENA24 wrote:
December 2009

haha FIFA 98!!!!!!!!!!

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LonesomePete wrote:
September 2009

BRASIL 666!! WOOOOOOOO!! GIDDIE-UP!!

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bazevedo wrote:
August 2009

why isn't the song "look around" more popular?

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Porgeface wrote:
July 2009

Great music, chills me out

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MegatonShot wrote:
June 2009

A lot of these songs have been made embarassingly popular by other artists. God damn.

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fmera wrote:
May 2009

not according to musicbrainz: http://musicbrainz.org/artist/491d8124-42e9-43f0-a828-e4a40c59e5ba.html or discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sérgio+Mendes+%26+Brasil+%2766 so deal with it.

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chitsb wrote:
April 2009

I agree with naymandij....Sérgio with the accent is his name...but not the band name

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naymandij wrote:
March 2009

agreed. "Sérgio Santos Mendes" is his real life name and is not an artist/producer name he used. His artist/producer name is "Sergio Mendes", e without an accent. This auto link should correct back to the right spelling page.

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ZhugeLiang0- wrote:
March 2009

I hate how it's auto-correcting here :/. Not only does it have so little plays, on every album cover i've seen, I see Sergio Mendes without the accent.

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