Sergio Mendes, a Brazilian pianist ... adding two female vocalists, Bibi Vogel and Lani Hall, to his group, which he called ...

He also made music with Stevie Wonder who wrote Mendes' hit The Real Thing. And Sergio worked on a 007 song. He helped singer Lani Hall as a producer of her vocals on the title song for the James ...

Called Brasil '66, it featured two American singers, Lani Hall and Karen Philip ... fortunes waned until the 1983 comeback album, Sergio Mendes, gave him the biggest chart hit of his career ...