His death was announced by his family to the Guardian news organization. According to a family statement, Mendes died following several months of ill health caused by the effects of long-term Covid.

The two time Grammy winner died on Thursday ... the Latin music scholar Leila Cobo said in the 2020 HBO documentary Sergio Mendes in the Key of Joy. “But that speaks to how certain Sérgio ...

“Sergio Mendes was my brother from another country,” trumpeter Herb Alpert wrote on Facebook. “He was a true friend and an extremely talented musician who took Brazilian music in all its ...