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Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 is the first album by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66. [3] It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. Referring to the song "Mas que Nada" Mendes said in 2014: "It was the first time that a song in Portuguese was a hit in America and all over the world".
Mendes and Brasil '66 performed the Oscar-nominated Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "The Look of Love", one of their biggest hits, on the Academy Awards telecast in March 1968. The album was recorded at the Sunset Sound, Western Recorders, and Annex Studios, Hollywood.
Lani Hall (born November 6, 1945) is an American singer. From 1966 to 1971, she performed as lead vocalist for Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66.In 1972, Hall released her first solo album, Sun Down Lady.
Sérgio Mendes, the Grammy-winning Brazilian band leader who helped popularize bossa nova in the '60s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 83.
Fool on the Hill is the fourth studio album by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66, released in 1968.. This is the first album featuring the second edition of Brasil '66. Mendes replaced all of the original band members (with the exception of lead singer Lani Hall).
Both sides from same album except where indicated Chart positions Album US US AC US R&B UK AU; 1965 "Reza" b/w "Noa Noa" (from The Beat of Brazil) Non-album tracks 1966 "All My Loving" b/w "The Telephone Song" "Mas que nada" b/w "The Joker" 47 4 Herb Alpert Presents Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 "Day Tripper" b/w "Slow Hot Wind" "Constant Rain"
Sérgio Mendes, a singer and composer who helped popularize the bossa nova music of his native Brazil, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family shared in a statement with CNN. Mendes was 83.
In the 1980s Mendes worked again with singer Lani Hall on the song "No Place to Hide" from the Brasil '86 album, and produced her vocals on the title song for the James Bond film Never Say Never Again. By the time Mendes released his Grammy-winning Elektra album Brasileiro in 1992, he was the undisputed master of pop-inflected Brazilian jazz.