Long Covid kills Sergio Mendes

Long Covid kills Sergio Mendes

RIP

norman lebrecht

September 08, 2024

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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