Remembering Sérgio Mendes Enlarge this image toggle caption Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording A Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording A We're taking the moment to remember the life of Sérgio Mendes. On November 21, 1962, Sérgio Mendes made his Carnegie Hall debut. Over the next few years, he and a cohort of fellow Brazilian musicians changed popular music …
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. Alongside peers like composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, singer-guitarist João Gilberto, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and guitarist Roberto Menescal, the music captured the city’s sensuous beach culture and its young and hopeful mood in …
I’m having a flashback to my high school dance class. It had more to do with me.” While Mendes was respected as a well-known musician from Brazil — when he was just 21 years old, he flew out to New York City from Niteroi to perform at a landmark Carnegie Hall concert of Brazilian music — he wasn’t famous when …
