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Sérgio Mendes

December 02, 2023

Not to be confused with Sergio Méndez or Sergio Mendoza.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Santos and the second or paternal family name is Mendes.

Sérgio Santos Mendes (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈsɛʁʒju ˈsɐ̃tuz ˈmẽdʒis]; born February 11, 1941)[1] is a Brazilian musician. His career took off with worldwide hits by his band Brasil '66. He has over 55 releases and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk.[1] He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2012 as co-writer of the song "Real in Rio" from the animated film Rio.[2]

Sérgio Mendes
Sérgio Mendes in 2016
Background information
Birth nameSérgio Santos Mendes
Also known asSantos Sergio
Born (1941-02-11) February 11, 1941 (age 82)
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
OriginRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Bandleader
  • pianist
  • composer
  • arranger
  • songwriter
Instrument(s)Piano
Years active1961–present
Labels

Mendes, a Brazilian musician, is primarily known in the United States, where his albums were recorded and where most of his touring took place.

Mendes is married to Gracinha Leporace, who has performed with him since the early 1970s. Mendes has also collaborated with many artists through the years, including the Black Eyed Peas, with whom he re-recorded in 2006 a version of his breakthrough hit "Mas que Nada".

Biography edit

Early career edit

Mendes was born in Niterói, Brazil,[3] the son of a physician. He attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As his interest in jazz grew, he started playing in nightclubs in the late 1950s just as bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, was emerging. Mendes played with Antônio Carlos Jobim (regarded as a mentor) and many U.S. jazz musicians who toured Brazil.

Mendes formed the Sexteto Bossa Rio and recorded Dance Moderno in 1961. Touring Europe and the United States, Mendes recorded albums with Cannonball Adderley and Herbie Mann and played at the Carnegie Hall. Mendes moved to the U.S. in 1964 and cut two albums under the group name Sergio Mendes & Brasil '65 with Capitol Records and Atlantic Records.[3]

Mendes became full partners with Richard Adler, a Brooklyn-born American who had previously brought Bossa Trés plus two dancers, Joe Bennett and a Brazilian partner, to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963. He was also accompanied by Jobim; Flavio Ramos, and Aloísio de Oliveira, a record and TV producer from Rio who used to be a member of Carmen Miranda's backing group Bando da Lua. The Musicians Union only allowed this group to appear on one TV show and make one club appearance (Basin Street East) before ordering them to leave the U.S. When the new group Brasil '65 was formed, Shelly Manne, Bud Shank and other West Coast musicians got Mendes and the others into the local musicians union. Adler and Mendes formed Brasil '65, which consisted of Wanda Sá and Rosinha de Valença, as well as the Sergio Mendes Trio. The group recorded albums for Atlantic and Capitol.

Brasil '66 edit

 
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

All of Mendes' jazz albums for Atlantic Records, through Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun, had low sales. Richard Adler suggested that Mendes and the group sing in English, as well as Portuguese as Mendes had demanded, and Adler sought new English-based material such as "Goin' Out of My Head" by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein. In order to sing these songs properly in English, Adler suggested that the group find two American female singers who would sing in both English and Portuguese. Adler called his friend Jerry Dennon and A&M Records founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, and arranged for an audition for Mendes' new group, which was dubbed "Brasil '66.'" Alpert and Moss signed Mendes and his group to A&M Records.[3] Adler then went to the Ertegun Brothers at Atlantic Records and sought to have them release Mendes from his Atlantic Jazz contract. Ahmet agreed to allow him to record albums under the name "Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66" with A&M. Mendes was not at this meeting, only Adler and Ahmet Ertegun. Alpert took over as producer for the A&M albums, and the group became a huge success with their first single, "Mas que Nada", by writer Jorge Ben.

The first album on A&M was Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, an album that went platinum based largely on the success of the single "Mas que Nada" (a Jorge Ben cover) and the personal support of Alpert, with whom Mendes toured.

The original lineup of Brasil '66 was Mendes (piano), vocalists Lani Hall (later Alpert's wife) and Sylvia Dulce Kleiner (Bibi Vogel) (1942 - 2004), Bob Matthews (bass), José Soares (percussion) and João Palma (1943 - 2016) (drums). John Pisano (1931 - ) played guitar. This new lineup then recorded two albums between 1966 and 1968 (including the best-selling Look Around LP), before a major personnel change for its fourth album Fool on the Hill.[1]

Mendes often changed the lineup. Vocalist Kleiner (Bibi Vogel) was replaced by Janis Hansen, who in turn was replaced by Karen Philipp. Veteran drummer Dom Um Romão teamed with Rubens Bassini to assume percussionist duties. Claudio Slon joined the group as drummer in 1969, and went on to play with Mendes for nearly a decade. Sebastião Neto took over on bass and Oscar Castro-Neves took on guitar. These changes gave the group a more orchestral sound than before. In the early 1970s, lead singer Hall pursued a solo career and became Alpert's second wife.[1] Some accounts claim that Mendes was upset with Alpert for years for "stealing" Hall away from his group.[citation needed]

Though his early singles with Brasil '66 (most notably "Mas que Nada") met with some success, Mendes really burst into mainstream prominence when he performed the Oscar-nominated "The Look of Love" on the Academy Awards telecast in April 1968. Brasil '66's version of the song quickly shot into the top 10,[3] peaking at No. 4[4] and eclipsing Dusty Springfield's version from the soundtrack of the movie Casino Royale. Mendes spent the rest of 1968 enjoying consecutive top 10 and top 20 hits with his follow-up singles "The Fool on the Hill" and "Scarborough Fair".[3] From 1968 on, Mendes was arguably the biggest Brazilian star in the world[1] and enjoyed immense popularity worldwide, performing in venues as varied as stadium arenas and the White House, where he gave concerts for presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon.[1] The Brasil '66 group appeared at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan in June 1970.

Middle career edit

Mendes' career in the U.S. stalled in the mid-1970s, but he remained popular in South America and Japan. His two albums with Bell Records in 1973 and 1974 followed by several for Elektra from 1975 on such as "Brasil '88", found Mendes continuing to mine the best in American pop music and post-Bossa writers of his native Brazil, while forging new directions in soul with collaborators like Stevie Wonder, who wrote Mendes' R&B-inflected minor hit "The Real Thing".

In 1983, he rejoined Alpert's A&M records and enjoyed success with a self-titled album and several follow-up albums, all of which received considerable adult contemporary airplay with charting singles. "Never Gonna Let You Go", featuring vocals by Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller,[3] equalled the success of his 1968 single "The Look of Love" by reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; it also spent four weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart.[4] In 1984, he recorded the Confetti album, which had the hit songs "Olympia", which was also used as a theme song for the Olympic Games that year, and "Alibis" which reached #5 on the A/C chart and #29 on the Hot 100.[3] The 1980s also saw Mendes working with singer Lani Hall again on the song "No Place to Hide" from the Brasil '86 album, and as producer of her vocals on the title song for the James Bond film Never Say Never Again.

By the time Mendes released his Grammy-winning Elektra album Brasileiro in 1992, he was the undisputed master of pop-inflected Brazilian jazz. The late-1990s lounge music revival brought retrospection and respect to Mendes' oeuvre, particularly the classic Brasil '66 albums.

Later career edit

 
Sérgio Mendes 2008

Timeless features a wide array of neo-soul and alternative hip hop guest artists, including the Black Eyed Peas, Erykah Badu, Black Thought, Jill Scott, Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, India.Arie, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Q-Tip, Stevie Wonder and Pharoahe Monch. It was released February 14, 2006 by Concord Records.[1]

The 2006 re-recorded version of "Mas que Nada" with the Black Eyed Peas had additional vocals by Gracinha Leporace (Mendes' wife); this version is included on Timeless. In Brazil, the song is also well known for being the theme song for the local television channel Globo's Estrelas. The Black Eyed Peas' version contains a sample of their 2004 hit "Hey Mama". The re-recorded song became popular on many European charts. On the UK Singles Chart, the song entered at No. 29 and peaked at No. 6 on its second week on the chart.

He makes an appearance dancing along for one of the segments Pharrell Williams' 24 hour of happy.

Mendes served as co-producer on the soundtrack albums for two animated films about his homeland: 2011's Rio and its 2014 sequel.

Discography edit

Main article: Sérgio Mendes discography

Awards edit

Academy Awards edit

Year Category Work Result
2011 Best Original Song "Real in Rio" Nominated

Grammy Awards edit

Latin Grammy Awards edit

 
Gracinha Leporace and Mendes, 1971

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Eder, Bruce. "Sergio Mendes Biography" at AllMusic
  2. ^ "The 84th Academy Awards | 2012". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved January 25, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 834. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.
  4. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sérgio Mendes.
  • Official website
  • Sergio Mendes interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' July 2008
  • "Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66/'77/etc. The Sérgio Mendes Discography." brasil66.com, 2006.
  • The Sounds and Colours of Brazil: An Interview with Sergio Mendes 'Sounds and Colours' June 25, 2012.
  • "Sérgio Mendes." The Brazilian Sound: Brazil's Music & Culture, July 13, 2008.
  • July 2009 Interview with L.A. Record

December 02, 2023
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in 2016Background informationBirth nameSergio Santos MendesAlso known asSantos SergioBorn 1941 02 11 February 11 1941 age 82 Niteroi Rio de Janeiro BrazilOriginRio de Janeiro BrazilGenresBossa novaLatinLatin jazzjazzdiscoadult contemporarysoft rockOccupation s BandleaderpianistcomposerarrangersongwriterInstrument s PianoYears active1961 presentLabelsCapitolAtlanticA amp MElektraConcord Mendes a Brazilian musician is primarily known in the United States where his albums were recorded and where most of his touring took place Mendes is married to Gracinha Leporace who has performed with him since the early 1970s Mendes has also collaborated with many artists through the years including the Black Eyed Peas with whom he re recorded in 2006 a version of his breakthrough hit Mas que Nada Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early career 1 2 Brasil 66 1 3 Middle career 1 4 Later career 2 Discography 3 Awards 3 1 Academy Awards 3 2 Grammy Awards 3 3 Latin Grammy Awards 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksBiography editEarly career edit Mendes was born in Niteroi Brazil 3 the son of a physician He attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist As his interest in jazz grew he started playing in nightclubs in the late 1950s just as bossa nova a jazz inflected derivative of samba was emerging Mendes played with Antonio Carlos Jobim regarded as a mentor and many U S jazz musicians who toured Brazil Mendes formed the Sexteto Bossa Rio and recorded Dance Moderno in 1961 Touring Europe and the United States Mendes recorded albums with Cannonball Adderley and Herbie Mann and played at the Carnegie Hall Mendes moved to the U S in 1964 and cut two albums under the group name Sergio Mendes amp Brasil 65 with Capitol Records and Atlantic Records 3 Mendes became full partners with Richard Adler a Brooklyn born American who had previously brought Bossa Tres plus two dancers Joe Bennett and a Brazilian partner to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963 He was also accompanied by Jobim Flavio Ramos and Aloisio de Oliveira a record and TV producer from Rio who used to be a member of Carmen Miranda s backing group Bando da Lua The Musicians Union only allowed this group to appear on one TV show and make one club appearance Basin Street East before ordering them to leave the U S When the new group Brasil 65 was formed Shelly Manne Bud Shank and other West Coast musicians got Mendes and the others into the local musicians union Adler and Mendes formed Brasil 65 which consisted of Wanda Sa and Rosinha de Valenca as well as the Sergio Mendes Trio The group recorded albums for Atlantic and Capitol Brasil 66 edit nbsp Sergio Mendes amp Brasil 66All of Mendes jazz albums for Atlantic Records through Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun had low sales Richard Adler suggested that Mendes and the group sing in English as well as Portuguese as Mendes had demanded and Adler sought new English based material such as Goin Out of My Head by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein In order to sing these songs properly in English Adler suggested that the group find two American female singers who would sing in both English and Portuguese Adler called his friend Jerry Dennon and A amp M Records founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss and arranged for an audition for Mendes new group which was dubbed Brasil 66 Alpert and Moss signed Mendes and his group to A amp M Records 3 Adler then went to the Ertegun Brothers at Atlantic Records and sought to have them release Mendes from his Atlantic Jazz contract Ahmet agreed to allow him to record albums under the name Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 with A amp M Mendes was not at this meeting only Adler and Ahmet Ertegun Alpert took over as producer for the A amp M albums and the group became a huge success with their first single Mas que Nada by writer Jorge Ben The first album on A amp M was Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes amp Brasil 66 an album that went platinum based largely on the success of the single Mas que Nada a Jorge Ben cover and the personal support of Alpert with whom Mendes toured The original lineup of Brasil 66 was Mendes piano vocalists Lani Hall later Alpert s wife and Sylvia Dulce Kleiner Bibi Vogel 1942 2004 Bob Matthews bass Jose Soares percussion and Joao Palma 1943 2016 drums John Pisano 1931 played guitar This new lineup then recorded two albums between 1966 and 1968 including the best selling Look Around LP before a major personnel change for its fourth album Fool on the Hill 1 Mendes often changed the lineup Vocalist Kleiner Bibi Vogel was replaced by Janis Hansen who in turn was replaced by Karen Philipp Veteran drummer Dom Um Romao teamed with Rubens Bassini to assume percussionist duties Claudio Slon joined the group as drummer in 1969 and went on to play with Mendes for nearly a decade Sebastiao Neto took over on bass and Oscar Castro Neves took on guitar These changes gave the group a more orchestral sound than before In the early 1970s lead singer Hall pursued a solo career and became Alpert s second wife 1 Some accounts claim that Mendes was upset with Alpert for years for stealing Hall away from his group citation needed Though his early singles with Brasil 66 most notably Mas que Nada met with some success Mendes really burst into mainstream prominence when he performed the Oscar nominated The Look of Love on the Academy Awards telecast in April 1968 Brasil 66 s version of the song quickly shot into the top 10 3 peaking at No 4 4 and eclipsing Dusty Springfield s version from the soundtrack of the movie Casino Royale Mendes spent the rest of 1968 enjoying consecutive top 10 and top 20 hits with his follow up singles The Fool on the Hill and Scarborough Fair 3 From 1968 on Mendes was arguably the biggest Brazilian star in the world 1 and enjoyed immense popularity worldwide performing in venues as varied as stadium arenas and the White House where he gave concerts for presidents Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon 1 The Brasil 66 group appeared at the World Expo in Osaka Japan in June 1970 Middle career edit Mendes career in the U S stalled in the mid 1970s but he remained popular in South America and Japan His two albums with Bell Records in 1973 and 1974 followed by several for Elektra from 1975 on such as Brasil 88 found Mendes continuing to mine the best in American pop music and post Bossa writers of his native Brazil while forging new directions in soul with collaborators like Stevie Wonder who wrote Mendes R amp B inflected minor hit The Real Thing In 1983 he rejoined Alpert s A amp M records and enjoyed success with a self titled album and several follow up albums all of which received considerable adult contemporary airplay with charting singles Never Gonna Let You Go featuring vocals by Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller 3 equalled the success of his 1968 single The Look of Love by reaching No 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart it also spent four weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart 4 In 1984 he recorded the Confetti album which had the hit songs Olympia which was also used as a theme song for the Olympic Games that year and Alibis which reached 5 on the A C chart and 29 on the Hot 100 3 The 1980s also saw Mendes working with singer Lani Hall again on the song No Place to Hide from the Brasil 86 album and as producer of her vocals on the title song for the James Bond film Never Say Never Again By the time Mendes released his Grammy winning Elektra album Brasileiro in 1992 he was the undisputed master of pop inflected Brazilian jazz The late 1990s lounge music revival brought retrospection and respect to Mendes oeuvre particularly the classic Brasil 66 albums Later career edit nbsp Sergio Mendes 2008Timeless features a wide array of neo soul and alternative hip hop guest artists including the Black Eyed Peas Erykah Badu Black Thought Jill Scott Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 India Arie John Legend Justin Timberlake Q Tip Stevie Wonder and Pharoahe Monch It was released February 14 2006 by Concord Records 1 The 2006 re recorded version of Mas que Nada with the Black Eyed Peas had additional vocals by Gracinha Leporace Mendes wife this version is included on Timeless In Brazil the song is also well known for being the theme song for the local television channel Globo s Estrelas The Black Eyed Peas version contains a sample of their 2004 hit Hey Mama The re recorded song became popular on many European charts On the UK Singles Chart the song entered at No 29 and peaked at No 6 on its second week on the chart He makes an appearance dancing along for one of the segments Pharrell Williams 24 hour of happy Mendes served as co producer on the soundtrack albums for two animated films about his homeland 2011 s Rio and its 2014 sequel Discography editMain article Sergio Mendes discography 1961 Dance Moderno Philips 1962 Cannonball s Bossa Nova Riverside Capitol Records 1963 Voce Ainda Nao Ouviu Nada a k a The Beat of Brazil Philips 1964 The Swinger from Rio a k a Bossa Nova York Atlantic 1965 In Person at El Matador Atlantic 1965 Brasil 65 a k a In The Brazilian Bag Capitol 1965 The Great Arrival Atlantic 1966 Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes amp Brasil 66 A amp M 1967 Equinox A amp M 1967 Quiet Nights Philips 1967 Look Around A amp M 1968 Fool on the Hill A amp M 1968 Sergio Mendes Favorite Things Atlantic 1969 Crystal Illusions A amp M 1969 Ye Me Le A amp M 1969 The Story of Sergio Mendes and Brasil 77 a k a Italia Brazil A amp M 1970 Live at Expo 70 unreleased in the US A amp M 1970 Stillness A amp M 1971 Pais Tropical A amp M 1971 Giorno A amp M 1972 Four Sider A amp M double compilation album 1972 Primal Roots a k a Raizes Brazil A amp M 1973 Love Music Bell 1974 Vintage 74 Bell 1975 Sergio Mendes a k a I Believe Brazil Elektra 1976 Homecooking Elektra 1977 Sergio Mendes and the New Brasil 77 Elektra 1977 Pele Atlantic 1978 Brasil 88 Elektra 1979 Alegria a k a Horizonte Aberto Brazil WEA 1979 Magic Lady Elektra 1980 The Beat Of Brazil Atlantic 1983 Sergio Mendes A amp M 1984 Confetti A amp M 1986 Brasil 86 A amp M 1989 Arara A amp M 1992 Brasileiro Elektra 1996 Oceano Verve 1999 Matrix Concord 2006 Timeless Concord 2007 Encanto Concord 2009 Bom Tempo Concord 2014 Magic Okeh 2020 In the Key of Joy Concord Awards editAcademy Awards edit Year Category Work Result2011 Best Original Song Real in Rio NominatedGrammy Awards edit Year Category Recipient Outcome1969 Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals The Fool on the Hill Nominated1993 Best World Music Album Brasileiro Won2007 Best Urban Alternative Performance Mas que Nada featuring Black Eyed Peas Nominated That Heat featuring Erykah Badu and will i am Nominated2011 Best Contemporary World Music Album Bom tempo Nominated2015 Best World Music Album Magic NominatedLatin Grammy Awards edit Year Category Recipient Outcome2005 Lifetime Achievement Award Himself Won2006 Record of the Year Mas que Nada featuring Black Eyed Peas NominatedBest Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album Timeless Nominated2008 Best Brazilian Song Acode featuring Vanessa da Mata Nominated2010 Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album Bom Tempo Won nbsp Gracinha Leporace and Mendes 1971See also editList of Brazilian musiciansReferences edit a b c d e f g Eder Bruce Sergio Mendes Biography at AllMusic The 84th Academy Awards 2012 Oscars org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Retrieved January 25 2021 a b c d e f g Colin Larkin ed 1997 The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music Concise ed Virgin Books p 834 ISBN 1 85227 745 9 a b Whitburn Joel 1996 The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits 6th Edition Billboard Publications External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sergio Mendes Official website Sergio Mendes interview by Pete Lewis Blues amp Soul July 2008 Sergio Mendes amp Brasil 66 77 etc The Sergio Mendes Discography brasil66 com 2006 The Sounds and Colours of Brazil An Interview with Sergio Mendes Sounds and Colours June 25 2012 Sergio Mendes The Brazilian Sound Brazil s Music amp Culture July 13 2008 July 2009 Interview with L A Record Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sergio Mendes amp oldid 1187040694, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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