Sérgio Mendes, a singer and composer who helped popularize the bossa nova music of his native Brazil, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family shared in a statement with CNN. Mendes was 83. “His wife ...

Mendes: Paul McCartney enjoyed his uptempo version of the Beatles standard The Fool on the Hill - Jim McCrary/Redferns Sérgio Mendes, who has died in Los Angeles aged 83, created a string of worldwide ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

Beloved bossa nova producer, composer, pianist and song interpreter Sérgio Mendes has died at 83. The legendary Brazilian superstar whose career spanned more than three dozen albums released across ...

Sérgio Mendes died Thursday in Los Angeles at the age of 83. The news was confirmed by his family in a statement, which indicated that Mendes was accompanied in his last moments by his wife Gracinha ...

Over many years he had grown accustomed to the things they liked to say. That his music was “lounge”, lift, airport, cruise-liner, burbling across the aisles as shoppers debated what to buy. That it ...

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 ...

Sergio Mendes, the influential Brazilian jazz musician known for bringing bossa nova to worldwide audiences, has died at the age of 83. In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, the musician’s family ...