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Born in 1941 in Niterói, near Rio de Janeiro ... Mendes cut his first solo album “Dance Moderno” in 1961, a collection of jazz covers by Duke Ellington and Cole Porter alongside Brazilian ...

After the folksy “Stillness” of 1970 with its covers of Joni Mitchell ... and co-composer on the soundtrack album for 2011’s animated film “Rio” for 20th Century Fox, Mendes was ...

During the trip, Cannonball Adderley invited Mendes to collaborate on the album “Cannonball Adderley and The Bossa Rio Sextet,” leading ... blend ranging from covers of the Beatles ...

On the album was Mendes's hit cover of the song "Mas que Nada ... Mendes also contributed to the soundtrack album of the 2011 animated film "Rio," earning an Academy Award nomination for the ...

The star played Glastonbury in 2013 He started playing in nightclubs in Rio de Janeiro ... 1983 comeback album, Sergio Mendes, gave him the biggest chart hit of his career - a cover of the ...

Mendes’ popularity peaked in the late Sixties when a string of his bossa nova covers ... Album. Mendes was also nominated for a Best Original Song Academy Award in 2011 for “Real in Rio ...

In the 50s he began playing music in Rio’s nightclubs, eventually forming the bossa nova band Sexeto Bossa Rio. They released their debut album ‘Dance ... You Go’ — a cover of the Barry ...

He soon led groups around Rio and became part of a burgeoning ... His 1983 self-titled album featured a cover of Dionne Warwick’s “Never Gonna Let You Go” that reached No. 4 on the Billboard ...

As a cover of Jorge Ben’s original, it became the first Portuguese language song to reach No. 5 in the singles charts, pushing its associated album to the top 10 in the ... nomination for his song ...

Perhaps most loved cover was “The Look of Love,” the Bacharach ... A three-time Grammy Award winner and Oscar nominee (for “Real in Rio,” the song he made with John Legend for the 2012 ...