Mendes, winner of numerous awards and recognitions, including a Grammy, is a pianist and arranger with a career spanning 60 years, one of the pillars of bossa nova. He has dozens of albums to his credit. First album – 1961.
Sergio Mendes also worked in samba, lounge, Latin pop and soft rock formats, while weaving funk and jazz into bossa nova.
The artist died in hospital surrounded by family and friends; the cause of death was due to the consequences of contracting the coronavirus.
An obituary of the maestro, a musician who with his band Brasil ’66 took bossa nova to a completely different level, appeared in Rolling Stone.
