Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes has died at the age of 83.
The iconic Latin artist passed away in Los Angeles, according to a Friday report from TMZ.
Mendes was a world-famous Brazilian musician who collaborated with jazz greats such as Herb Alpert.
Sergio was known for bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, and worked with the famous musician Antônio Carlos Jobim.
Mendes also headed up the iconic musical group Brasil ’66.
He was Oscar-nominated for his song Real In Rio which he made with John Legend for the 2012 animated movie Rio.
And he won three Grammys over his 70 year career.
Sergio Mendes has passed away at the age of 83; seen in 2020 in Los Angeles
Mendes performs at the Park West in Chicago, Illinois, March 3, 1979
He worked with many mainstream artists such as The Black Eyed Peas, with whom he re-recorded in 2006 a version of his breakthrough hit Mas que Nada.
He also made music with Stevie Wonder who wrote Mendes’ hit The Real Thing.
And Sergio worked on a 007 song.
He helped singer Lani Hall as a producer of her vocals on the title song for the James Bond film Never Say Never Again in the 1980s.
Mendes was married to Gracinha Leporace, who performed with him since the early 1970s.
The star got his start in the 1950s when he played nightclubs in his native Brazil but his biggest hits were made in the US.
His first taste of mainstream fame came when he performed the Oscar-nominated The Look of Love during the Academy Awards in 1968.
His hit songs include The Fool on the Hill, Scarborough Fair and Never Gonna Let You Go. His big hit was the Grammy-winning Elektra album Brasileiro in 1992.
He was one of the most internationally successful Brazilian artists of all time.
Mendes has recorded more than 35 albums, many of which went gold or platinum. He’s a three-time Grammy Award winner, Oscar- nominated songwriter and the subject of a 2020 feature documentary.
He worked with many mainstream artists such as The Black Eyed Peas, with whom he re-recorded in 2006 a version of his breakthrough hit Mas que Nada. Seen in 2023
