The brilliant Bossa Nova pioneer has died in Los Angeles, aged 83. The cause, say his family, was long Covid.
Mendes settled in the US in the 1960s amid political and military turbulence in Brazil that saw him briefly arrested. His theme song (below) became an everlasting earworm.
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After Joao, Astrud Gilberto in the last years, the sweet and nostalgic world of bossa nova is almost no more….Wanda Sa, Marcos Valle, Roberto Meniscal are still here I think …some bridges between classical world and bossa nova…
It won’t stop. Brazil is one of the most musical countries I have ever visited.
RIP Sergio Mendes.