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Sérgio Mendes Dies: Brazilian Pop Pioneer, Hitmaker & Herb Alpert Collaborator Was 83
Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian musician whose melding of pop, bossa nova, funk and cool jazz became one of the 1960s most popular sounds, died Thursday.
Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian composer, arranger and pianist whose melding of his native country’s traditional music with ’60s-vintage American pop, bossa nova, samba, funk and hints of cool jazz became one of the decade’s most beloved and popular sounds, died peacefully Thursday in Los Angeles. One of Brazil’s most influential crossover artists beginning in the 1960s, Mendes, often in association with his friend and collaborator Herb Alpert, scored a string of lilting, jazzy, Burt Bacharach-style hits, most notably in his covers of Beatles songs “All My Loving,” “Day Tripper” and “With A Little Help From My Friends.” Perhaps most lost cover arrived in 1968 with “The Look of Love,” the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song first made famous by Dusty Springfield. Alpert paid tribute to his old friend in an Instagram post today, writing, “Sérgio Mendes was my brother from another country passed away quietly and peacefully.
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