Music: Sergio Mendes




Sergio Mendes
Sergio Mendes is the most internationally recognized Brazilian artist of all time. He rose in popularity during the decade of the Bossa Nova, and has enjoyed phenomenal success worldwide ever since.




Sergio Mendes
A professional pianist since the age of sixteen, Sergio Mendes is one of the most gifted musical talents to emerge from Brazil. His group performed at parties and night clubs near the Brazilian town of Ipanema, where famed composer and musician, Antonio Carlos Jobim, heard Sergio play. With encouragement from Jobim, Sergio Mendes joined other musicians in Rio who were creating a new musical style that came to be known as bossa nova.
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