In his own Brazil they know Sergio Mendes barely, but in Europe and the US, he is one of the best selling Brazilian artists. Reason for Mendes to also go to Miami to move. In the sixties he became familiar with breezy bossa nova arrangements of famous pop hits (including the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel). The emergence of lounge was Mendes' work in the late nineties rediscovered by a younger
… generation. What eventually led to a number-one hit in his collaboration with The Black Eyed Peas.more