In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...

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 ...

The two time Grammy winner died on Thursday, Sept. 5, in a Los Angeles hospital Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared ...

Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes has died at age 83, his family confirmed in a statement. Along with his band, Brasil ’66, Mendes helped bring bossa nova music to the global mainstream in the 1960s.

Sergio Mendes, the innovative and influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family has confirmed. No ...

Tyler The Creator has been one of the most successful and esteemed rappers in the world for about a decade now, and during that time, he has tried his hand at a variety of genres. For example, it’s ...

When Sergio Mendes reflects on the amazing journey he calls life, from his formative years at the forefront of a bossa nova revolution through his Oscar-nominated work on "Rio" to the recent ...

Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean “the latest thing” or “the new beat” or “the new ...

One of America's first champions of Brazilian bossa nova was Felix Grant. A jazz disc jockey in Washington D.C., Grant hosted The Album Sound on WMAL. His voice had a soft, sophisticated on-air sound ...

João Gilberto, a Brazilian guitarist and singer who helped define the subtle, swaying and quietly sensuous style of music known as bossa nova, which became a worldwide craze in the 1960s, died July 6 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian Grammy-winning musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months of battling the effects of long Covid. He was 83. The ...