Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A&M STUDIOS Photo of Sergio MENDES, posed, studio, behind piano - Credit: Jim McCrary/Redferns Sérgio Mendes, the pianist who ...

Salvador sits on Brazil’s northeastern coast as a city where history and daily life intertwine in vivid detail. Its colonial architecture, painted in bright hues, frames neighborhoods that have long ...

In a quaint bungalow humming with Portuguese, a cool breeze of lilting harmonies and rhythmic bounce invites a leisurely sway to the tranquility of bossa nova. It’s a modern take on a sound pioneered ...

As Brazilian gospel music’s popularity soars, artists with little Christian background are releasing worship songs. Does it matter why? “Dwell in me, Jesus,” sings Ana Castela in “Agradeço” (I Thank ...

In the final scene of “The Worst Person in the World”, Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated film of 2021, the English version of “Águas de Março” (“Waters of March”) plays in the background. A Brazilian ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sergio Mendes, the celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar and helped launched a long, Grammy-winning career, has died after ...

Sérgio Mendes, the pianist who gifted the world with the most famous version of the Brazilian classic “Mas Que Nada,” died on Thursday. Born in 1941, Mendes was a 20-year-old musician when he first ...