Suffering from poor albums sales as a jazz-bossa pianist at Atlantic Records in 1965, Sérgio Mendes decided to listen to a recommendation made by Richard Adler, a producer at A&M Records. Adler, who would also become Mendes's manager, urged him to keep his Brazilian feel but hire American female vocalists to sing contemporary pop hits in English. So Men…
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