2012 Academy OST awards Nominate! Living legend of latin music!
The king of Bossanova

Sergio Mendes's debut 50th anniversary concert in Korea.

Grammy Award winner ,
Bossanova / Brazilian music maestro Sergio Mendes who has made an enduring hits of the
ballard 'Never Gonna Let You Go', the Latin number, 'Mas Que Nada',
Sergio Mendes has Korean's favorite best pop ballard number 'Never Gonna Let You Go',
and the Latin number ‘Mas Que Nada’
He is one of the most succeed Brazilian artist in the world.
Specially, he led the band brazil66 in the mid 1960's and their song 'Mas Que Nada' was placed
on the top of the Billboard singles chart.
He remade the Dusty Springfield's hit song 'Look of love' with his own style and it was placed on
4th of the Billboard singles chart
Since then, He held the concerts steadily for the fans all over the world with his beautiful songs
as a master of brazillian's Bosanova.

In 2005, His successful Brazillian music album "timeless" released which contains his best hit
Songs within a sense of re-touching of will I am from Blackeyed peas.
and also, Stevie Wonder, Black Eyed Peas, Jill Scott, Indian Ari, Justin Timberlake, Cue Tip, Erykah
Badu and John Legend has featured in this brilliant album 'timeless'
within the most famous misicians's collaboration, this album has been considered as a best
Bosanova album which brilliantly mixed with black music with Brazillian's spirit.
The new version of his best hit song 'Mas Que Nada' has been played in Nike's TV advertisement.
Through this, Sergio Mendes's music could be introduced to the young generations within lots of
supports.

In 2011, he released his 50th Anniversary album [Celebration - A Musical Journey] and it could
fully satisfy all his fans.
He was nominated for the 2012 Academy OST awards with theme song of 3D animation [Rio].

And now, you can see the Bossa Nova king Sergio Mendes's 50th debut anniversary concert in Korea.