The bandleader and composer is best known for the buoyant Latin pop hit Mas Que Nada, and putting Brazilian twists on English songs ... the top 10 of the US charts. Later records saw Mendes ...

Mendes, often in association with his friend and collaborator Herb Alpert, scored a string of lilting, jazzy, Burt ...

When Brazilian composer, producer, and arranger Sergio Mendes passed ... when he first heard Mendes and Brasil ’66 in a live performance: “I knew many of these songs in their original form ...