During the late 1960s, Sérgio Mendes was the biggest-selling Brazilian artist in the world Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, who helped popularise bossa nova and samba with Western audiences ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian music legend Sergio Mendes ... Throughout his career, Mendes skillfully blended samba rhythms and ...

Gilberto's style - mixing traditional and modern musical influences - inspired bossa nova, or new trend, music and many other artists after him. In 1964, he famously collaborated with America ...

whose music explores a whole mix of genres including jazz, rap, bossa nova, and math rock. Their songs are a surreal social commentary packed with punchy rhythms and eclectic time signatures.