Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66
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Biography
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1961 – present)
Mendes is married to the singer Gracinha Leporace who regularly performs vocals alongside Mendes and can 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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The Very Best
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Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
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Greatest Hits
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The Very Best Of Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
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EduRocker12
e malandro é malandro e mané é mané
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silversurfer250
The Original (and I think best) version of this group.
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BEERMANTOM
cinnamon and clove
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dewfish
cool group.
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anemonecoronari
I love for what it´s worth...it´s so danceable !!!
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moorct61
And this band loves you!
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aybesea69
God I love this band!
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pone2none
amazing artist!! thank you brazil!!
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phoenixsv
Oh, Brazil, Brazil, Brazil... bossa nova and your beautiful rhythms. Brazilians are absolute musical geniuses, delicately combining the best elements from various genres. I can't wait to visit Brazil for my very first time. Part of my heart belongs there.
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Sunzy
beauty.
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pulsar00
Chove Chuva [*****]
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starbot
<3
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TEKENA24
haha FIFA 98!!!!!!!!!!
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bazevedo
why isn't the song "look around" more popular?
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Porgeface
Great music, chills me out
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fmera
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
I agree with naymandij....Sérgio with the accent is his name...but not the band name
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naymandij
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-
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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