Mendes chose to open the album with “Mas Que Nada.” Little did he know that the song, written by his then-young fellow musician Jorge Ben Jor, would become his ticket to the forefront of the ...

Sergio Mendes, the celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar and helped launched a long, Grammy-winning career, has died after months battling the ...