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Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes has died at age 83, his family confirmed in a statement. Along with his band, Brasil ’66, Mendes helped bring bossa nova music to the global mainstream in the 1960s.

The Mainstay in Rock Hall will present an evening of Brazilian jazz and bossa nova when vocalist Daniela Soledade and ...

Sergio Mendes, the innovative and influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family has confirmed. No ...

Broadway veteran Manny Moreira brings Brits & Bossa to the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse, blending Beatles classics and ...

In a quaint bungalow humming with Portuguese, a cool breeze of lilting harmonies and rhythmic bounce invites a leisurely sway to the tranquility of bossa nova. It’s a modern take on a sound pioneered ...

Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...

A self-described melomaniac, veteran Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba (director of the Oscar winner “Belle Époque”) had long nurtured an affinity for Brazilian music, including the bossa nova style ...

Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto, who in her 20s recorded “The Girl from Ipanema” and became an international star, has died, according to social media posts from her granddaughter and on behalf of ...

This is a trip into the world of bossa nova. Or the worlds of bossa nova. For the style that made Brazilian music so respected and famous all over the world has some subdivisions that coexist among ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian Grammy-winning musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months of battling the effects of long Covid. He was 83.

Most people thought bossa nova was dead, and most were glad to have simply survived the hucksterized flood of bossa nova dances, bossa nova shoes and sweatshirts, boogie bossa nova, soul bossa nova.