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-{{Template}}'''Sérgio Santos Mendes''' (born [[February 11]], [[1941]] in [[Niterói]], [[Brazil]]) is a [[Grammy Award]]-winning [[List of Brazilian musicians|Brazilian musician]].+{{Template}}
-=== Brasil '66 ===+:''[[Brasil '66]]''
-The original lineup of Brasil '66 was Mendes (piano), vocalists [[Lani Hall]] and Janis Hansen, Bob Matthews (bass), Jose Soares (percussion) and Joao Palma (drums). John Pisano was the guest guitarist. This line-up recorded three albums between 1966-1968 (including the best-selling ''[[Look Around (Sergio Mendes album)|Look Around]]'' LP), before there was a major personnel change for their fourth album ''Fool on the Hill''.+'''Sérgio Santos Mendes''' (born [[February 11]], [[1941]] in [[Niterói]], [[Brazil]]) is a [[Grammy Award]]-winning [[List of Brazilian musicians|Brazilian musician]].
-[[Karen Philipp]] replaced Hansen as the second female vocalist, while veteran drummer Dom Um Romao teamed with [[Rubens Bassini]] to assume percussionist duties. Sebastiao Neto was the new bassist and [[Oscar Castro-Neves]] the guitarist. This line up had a more orchestrated and big band sound than their predecessors. Most significantly, in the early 1970s, lead singer Hall pursued a solo career and became Alpert's second wife. Some accounts claim that Mendes was upset with Alpert for years for "stealing" Hall away from his group. +
-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 Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "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, eclipsing [[Dusty Springfield]]'s version from the soundtrack of the movie, [[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]], and 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]]." Though he continued to enjoy adult contemporary chart successes with Brasil '66 through 1971 (a group name change to the more forward-looking "Brasil '77" didn't reignite sales), he would not experience the mainstream chart hits he enjoyed in 1968 until his comeback album in 1983 generated the biggest single of his career, "Never Gonna Let You Go," sung by [[Joe Pizzulo]] and Leza Miller, which peaked at #4 on the Billboard charts. However, from 1968 on, Mendes was arguably the biggest Brazilian star in the world, enjoying immense popularity worldwide and performing in venues as varied as stadium arenas and the [[White House]], where he gave concerts for both Presidents [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] and [[Richard Nixon]].+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 Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "[[The Look of Love]]" on the Academy Awards telecast in April 1968.
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-Mendes' career in the U.S. stalled in the mid-1970s, but he remained very popular in South America and Japan. His two albums with [[Bell Records (1950s-70s)|Bell Records]] in 1973 and 1974, followed by several for [[Elektra Records|Elektra]] from 1975 on, 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 huge success with a self-titled album and several follow-up albums, all of which received considerable adult contemporary airplay with charting singles. In 1984, he worked with singer Lani Hall 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. His stature in his native Brazil is reflected by "Cantor de Mambo," a song by fellow Brazilians [[Os Mutantes]], which they regularly dedicate to Mendes in concert. He has released over thirty-five albums, and still plays his bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and [[funk]].+
 +He is also known for his disco composition "[[I'll Tell You]]" (1978).
==Discography== ==Discography==
-===Albums===+*1960: ''[[Dance Moderno]]''
-*1961: ''[[Dance Moderno]]''+*1963: ''Você Ainda Não Ouviu Nada! ("You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet!")'' (Sergio Mendes & Bossa Rio) (later released as ''The Beat of Brazil'')
-*1963: ''[[Quiet Nights]]''+*1964: ''Bossa Nova York'' (Sergio Mendes Trio) (later released as ''The Swinger from Rio'')
-*1963: ''[[Você ainda não ouviu nada]]'' (Sérgio Mendes & Bosso Rio)+*1965: ''Brasil '65'' (Sergio Mendes Trio feat. [[Wanda Sá]])
-*1964: ''[[The Swinger From Rio]]''+*1966: ''[[Herb Alpert Presents (Sergio Mendes album)|Herb Alpert Presents: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66]]''
-*1964: ''Bossa Nova York'' - Sergio Mendes Trio+*1966: ''[[In Person at El Matador]]'' (Sergio Mendes and Brasil '65)
-*1964: ''Cannonball's Bossa Nova with Bossa Rio''+*1966: ''[[The Great Arrival (Sergio Mendes album)|The Great Arrival]]''
-*1964: ''In Person at El Matador'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '65+*1967: ''[[Equinox (Sergio Mendes album)|Equinox]]''
-*1965: ''Brasil '65. Wanda de Sah featuring The Sergio Mendes Trio+*1967: ''Quiet Nights''
-*1966: ''The Great Arrival'', 1966, LP/CD+*1968: ''[[Look Around (Sergio Mendes album)|Look Around]]''
-*1966: ''Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66'',+*1968: ''[[Fool on the Hill (Sergio Mendes album)|Fool on the Hill]]''
-*1967: ''Equinox'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66+*1968: ''[[Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things]]''
-*1967: ''The Beat of Brazil''+*1969: ''[[Crystal Illusions (Sergio Mendes album)|Crystal Illusions]]''
-*1968: ''Sergio Mendes Favorite Things''+*1969: ''[[Ye-Me-Lê (Sergio Mendes album)|Ye-Me-Lê]]
-*1968: [[Look Around (Sergio Mendes album)|''Look Around'']] - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66+*1970: ''Live at the Expo''
-*1968: ''The Fool on the Hill'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66+*1970: ''[[Stillness (Sérgio Mendes album)|Stillness]]
-*1969: ''Crystal Illusions'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66+*1971: ''País Tropical''
-*1970: ''Ye-me-lê''. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66+*1972: ''Primal Roots'' (released in Brazil as ''Raízes'')
-*1970: ''Live at Expo' 70''. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66+*1973: [[In concert (Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77)|''In Concert'']]
-*1971: ''Stillness'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66+*1973: ''Love Music''
-*1971: ''País Tropical'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77+*1974: ''[[I Believe (Sérgio Mendes album)|I Believe]]'' (released in the United States as ''[[Sergio Mendes (album)|Sergio Mendes]]'')
-*1972: ''Primal Roots'' (AKA ''Raizes'') - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77+*1974: ''Vintage 74''
-*1973: ''Love Music'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77+*1976: ''Homecooking''
-*1973: [[In concert (Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77)|''In Concert'']] - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77'+*1977: ''Sergio Mendes and the New Brasil '77
-*1974: ''Vintage 74'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77+*1978: ''[[Brasil '88]]''
-*1975: ''Sergio Mendes''+*1978: ''[[Pelé (album)|Pelé]]''
-*1976: ''Homecooking'' - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77+*1979: ''[[Horizonte Aberto (Sergio Mendes album)|Horizonte Aberto]]'' (released in Brazil only)
-*1977: ''Sergio Mendes & and the New Brasil '77'+*1979: ''[[Magic Lady (Sergio Mendes album)|Magic Lady]]''
-*1978: ''Brasil '88''+*1980: ''[[Alegria (Sergio Mendes album)|Alegria]]'' (European re-release of "Horizonte Aberto")
-*1978: ''Pelé'' - (Original Soundtrack)+*1983: ''[[Sérgio Mendes (album)|Sérgio Mendes]]''
-*1979: ''Magic Lady'', 1979+*1984: ''[[Confetti (Sérgio Mendes album)|Confetti]]''
-*1979: ''Horizonte Aberto''+*1986: ''[[Brasil '86]]''
-*1983: ''Sergio Mendes''+*1989: ''[[Arara (Sergio Mendes album)|Arara]]''
-*1984: [[Confetti (album)|''Confetti'']]+
-*1986: ''Brasil '86'', 1986+
-*1989: ''Arara''+
*1992: ''[[Brasileiro]]'' *1992: ''[[Brasileiro]]''
-*1996: ''Oceano''+*1996: ''[[Oceano (Sergio Mendes album)|Oceano]]''
-*2006: [[Timeless (Sergio Mendes album)|''Timeless'']]+*2006: ''[[Timeless (Sérgio Mendes album)|Timeless]]''
-*2008: ''[[Encanto (Sergio Mendes album)|Encanto]]''+*2008: ''[[Encanto (Sérgio Mendes album)|Encanto]]''
- +*2010: ''[[Bom Tempo]]''
-===Billboard Hot 100 Hits (USA)===+
-'''Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66''':+
-* 1966 - "[[Mas Que Nada]]" - #47+
-* 1966 - "Constant Rain (Chove Chuva)" - #71+
-* 1967 - "For Me" - #98+
-* 1967 - "[[Night and Day (song)|Night And Day]]" - #82+
-* 1968 - "[[The Look of Love (1967 song)|The Look of Love]]" - #4+
-* 1968 - "[[The Fool On The Hill]]" - #6 ([[Adult Contemporary]] #1/6 wks.)+
-* 1968 - "[[Scarborough Fair]]" - #16+
-* 1969 - "Pretty World" - #62+
-* 1969 - "[[(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay]]" - #66+
-* 1969 - "[[Wichita Lineman]]" - #95+
- +
-'''Sergio Mendes''': +
-* 1983 - "Never Gonna Let You Go" - #4 (Adult Contemporary #1/4 wks.; vocals: [[Joe Pizzulo]], [[Leeza Miller]]) +
-* 1983 - "Rainbow's End" - #52 (vocals: [[Dan Sembello]]) +
-* 1984 - "[[Olympia (song)|Olympia]]" - #58 (vocals: Joe Pizzulo)+
-* 1984 - "Alibis" - #29 (vocals: Joe Pizzulo)+
- +
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Sérgio Santos Mendes (born February 11, 1941 in Niterói, Brazil) is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian musician.

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 Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "The Look of Love" on the Academy Awards telecast in April 1968.

He is also known for his disco composition "I'll Tell You" (1978).

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