A Conversation with Sérgio Mendes – HuffPost 9.9.14

Mike Ragogna: Sérgio, your new album is titled Magic. What kind of magic went into creating and choosing the material as well as recording it?

Sérgio Mendes: Well, the whole process for me was very magical. I call this projectThe Magic of Encounters. I think it has to do with our lives as well, because when I think about my life, my whole journey, to still be making music with incredible people and to be performing, that’s kind of magical. So this album was like that. To write songs with people like John Legend and Maria Gadú and Janelle Monae and will.i.am again… It’s really the beautiful encounters that I’ve had all my life, going back to 1962 when I came to Carnegie Hall for the bossa nova concert, meeting Antônio Carlos Jobim, doing an album with Cannonball Adderley, touring with Frank Sinatra, doing specials with Fred Astaire, all of those things have been for me the magic of the encounter. I think it’s a beautiful way to describe my life. This album is about that.

A Conversation with Sergio Mendes – HuffPost 3.18.11

Mike Ragogna: Sergio, you have a double disc collection coming out soon titled Celebration: A Musical Journey. Sergio Mendes: Yes. MR: It’s going to basically cover your whole career. SM: That’s correct, yes. MR: Can you talk about its span a little? SM: It goes back from my first record, back in ’66. Then, it goes […]