Lou Dobbs, veteran cable news anchor and Trump booster, dies at 78
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/media/lo ... index.html
Lou Dobbs, the longtime business news anchor who became one of Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters in media, died on Thursday. He was 78.
“It’s with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of ‘the great Lou Dobbs,’” a statement posted on his official social media account said, calling him a “fighter till the very end.”
Dobbs had a lengthy career in broadcast journalism, spending more than two decades at CNN, which he joined at its inception in 1980 and anchoring the program “Moneyline.” Dobbs left CNN in 2009 to help media mogul Rupert Murdoch launch the Fox Business Network.
“Lou was one of the CNN originals, who helped launch and shape the network. We are saddened to hear about his passing and extend our sincerest condolences to his wife Debi, children and his family,” a CNN spokesperson said.
As Donald Trump ascended in Republican Party politics, Dobbs became one of his most ardent supporters, using his program to promote anti-immigrant rhetoric and lash out at the so-called “deep state.”
As one of Trump’s biggest boosters on television, the veteran anchor spent the latter part of his career promoting streams of misinformation and conspiracy theories on behalf of the then-president.
Trump regularly praised Dobbs in return, often posting clips of his show on his social media channels. Trump on Thursday praised Dobbs as a friend and “truly incredible journalist, reporter, and talent.”
“He understood the World, and what was ‘happening,’ better than others,” Trump wrote on his social media platform. “Lou was unique in so many ways, and loved our Country. Our warmest condolences to his wonderful wife, Debi, and family. He will be greatly missed!”
After the 2020 election, Dobbs used his Fox Business program to repeatedly promote false conspiracy theories that the vote had been rigged by shadowy companies that flipped millions of votes from Trump to Joe Biden.
These on-air comments helped spur voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic to sue Fox News for defamation. Fox News settled with Dominion last year for more than $787 million. But Smartmatic’s lawsuit — which also personally named Dobbs as a defendant — is still ongoing.
After the lawsuits were filed, Fox Business canceled Dobbs’ show, taking him off the air in an abrupt move announced on a Friday in February 2021.
Lawyers representing Dobbs previously said in the Smartmatic case that he “denies the allegation of a disinformation campaign” and that he “engages in opinion commentary on issues of public interest, which is his right under the U.S. Constitution.”
Fox News on Thursday praised the veteran anchor and offered condolences to his family.
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Lou Dobbs. An incredible business mind with a gift for broadcasting, Lou helped pioneer cable news into a successful and influential industry,” a Fox News Media spokesperson said. “We are immensely grateful for his many contributions and send our heartfelt condolences to his family.”
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I totally agree, Karearea. I found this one tonight, while I was looking for something else. I'd never heard this one before. Beware - aviation content!
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Influential Blues musician John Mayall has died at 90
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/entertai ... index.html
John Mayall, a pioneering Blues musician who was recently announced as a 2024 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was reportedly 90 years old.
The news was confirmed by Mayall’s verified Facebook page on Tuesday, where a message was posted alongside of a picture of the Grammy-nominated musician. “It is with heavy hearts that we bear the news that John Mayall passed away peacefully in his California home yesterday, July 22, 2024, surrounded by loving family. Health issues that forced John to end his epic touring career have finally led to peace for one of this world’s greatest road warriors. John Mayall gave us ninety years of tireless efforts to educate, inspire and entertain.”
CNN has reached out to Mayall’s representatives for further information.
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John Mayall, a pioneering Blues musician who was recently announced as a 2024 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was reportedly 90 years old.
The news was confirmed by Mayall’s verified Facebook page on Tuesday, where a message was posted alongside of a picture of the Grammy-nominated musician. “It is with heavy hearts that we bear the news that John Mayall passed away peacefully in his California home yesterday, July 22, 2024, surrounded by loving family. Health issues that forced John to end his epic touring career have finally led to peace for one of this world’s greatest road warriors. John Mayall gave us ninety years of tireless efforts to educate, inspire and entertain.”
CNN has reached out to Mayall’s representatives for further information.
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William Calley, officer convicted for his role in My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, dead at 80
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William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by US soldiers in one of the most notorious war crimes in American history, has died. He was 80.
Calley’s death was first reported by The Washington Post, citing his death certificate. CNN later confirmed Calley died on April 28, through public records maintained by the Social Security Administration. He had been living in Gainesville, Florida, according to those records.
For decades, Calley’s name was synonymous with one of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam War, as the lieutenant who led Charlie Company to My Lai, though he maintained he was following orders. While multiple officers were charged in connection with the massacre, Calley was the only one convicted.
According to historians, his actions sharply divided the nation, pitting those who supported the US efforts to rout out communism against those who felt the tragedy underscored the country’s moral and ethical decline during the war.
“The photograph of the Napalm Girl … the picture of General Loan shooting the Viet Cong in Saigon. Calley just brings to mind all of those things,” said Bill Allison, history professor at Georgia Southern University and author of the book “My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War.”
“But the fact is, the vast majority of the NCOs and young lieutenants and captains served with honor in Vietnam and did the best they could in this horrible situation,” Allison said.
“And they didn’t wantonly kill unarmed men, women and children.”
The massacre
On March 16, 1968, US Army soldiers gunned down hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in the remote hamlet of My Lai in South Vietnam.
“It is the worst war crime in American history – certainly the worst war crime committed by soldiers in the American Army,” said retired Col. Fred Borch, a military lawyer and the former regimental historian and archivist for the US Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
The US Army concluded nearly 350 people died in the attack, but the Vietnamese government puts the number at closer to 500, Borch said.
A 1970 investigation by the House Armed Services Committee details what began in the early hours of the morning, when units of the Army’s 11th Brigade landed outside the small hamlet they referred to as My Lai.
The soldiers, acting on flawed intelligence that a Viet Cong unit had been stationed in the village, had been briefed that “all civilians were expected to be gone from the hamlet at the time set for the assault,” according to the report.
“The units involved in the My Lai operation had minimal training with respect to the handling of civilians under the Rules of Engagement and the Geneva Conventions,” the report stated.
Although Charlie Company – where Calley was an officer – had yet to see direct combat, the report noted the unit had also suffered more than 40 casualties in their four months in Vietnam as a result of “mines, booby traps, and sniper fire.”
Allison said some would later speculate if the attack was an attempt at “payback.” Calley would claim during his court martial hearing that he had been ordered to kill the unarmed civilians, an allegation his superiors denounced.
“When they got to the village, it was full of unresisting and unarmed women and children and old men,” Borch said. “Calley and his men rounded up these civilians and then Calley ordered his men to kill them.”
The massacre lasted for hours. Homes were destroyed and set ablaze. Women were raped by soldiers and an investigation later revealed that dead civilians were found on roads, in ditches and in rice paddies throughout the village. Many women died protecting children.
During the melee, US Army pilot Hugh Thompson landed his helicopter between soldiers and civilians. With the help of his crew, Thompson gathered those he could and evacuated them to safety.
Thompson later reported what he’d witnessed to his commanders – including a military chaplain – but it would take years before a full accounting of the massacre would come to light.
The Armed Services Committee report concluded the responsible officers “failed to make adequate, timely investigation and report of the My Lai allegations.”
Borch put it more bluntly.
“The war crime was covered up for a year,” he said. “Thompson reported that he had seen this war crime to his superiors, but nothing was done.”
The revelation
A soldier named Ron Ridenhour was so appalled to learn about the My Lai massacre from soldiers who had witnessed the attack that he began a letter campaign to lawmakers and Army commanders, demanding a federal investigation.
Then, in 1969 – more than a year after the massacre and cover-up – journalist Seymour Hersh’s investigative reporting on the tragedy made headlines, and Life Magazine published gruesome images taken by an army photographer during the attack that rocked the American conscious.
The country was not far removed from the atrocities of the Holocaust and World War II and Allison said the images sparked soul searching.
But convicting those responsible for the massacre would prove to be a challenge.
At the time, Allison said, the Uniform Code of Military Justice required anyone brought on charges to be an active member of the military and in the year since the attack at My Lai, many who were involved had been discharged.
Calley was charged with the premeditated murder of Vietnamese civilians “literally a day or two before he was supposed to be discharged,” Allison said.
An investigation and trial were held at Fort Benning, which is today known as Fort Moore, and evidence was presented to a jury of soldiers and veterans.
“There was this fear that the jury of five officers might be inclined to say something like, ‘There but for the grace of God go I,’” Borch said. “But they found him guilty of premeditated murder and he was sentenced to life in prison.”
A 1971 Gallup poll taken shortly after Calley’s guilty conviction found that 79% of Americans disapproved of the verdict, while only 9% approved and 12% said they had “no opinion,” The New York Times reported at the time.
But in a shocking turn of events, Calley was released on parole after spending just a few years of his sentence under house arrest.
Calley’s sentence was initially reduced to 20 years by the general who convened the case, Borch said. “Then, the Secretary of the Army, in an unprecedented action, reduced the sentence further to 10 years,” Borch said, adding at the time, soldiers were eligible for parole if they served a third of their sentence.
President Richard Nixon intervened in the case and ordered Calley’s sentence to be reduced to house arrest, according to the Associated Press.
“He was paroled almost immediately,” Borch said. “He went on with his life as a civilian.”
Allison noted Nixon was heading into an election year and said he believes politics ultimately began to outweigh morality.
“Everybody was sick of Vietnam,” he said. “It was in the news all the time and they just wanted to get away from Vietnam as quick as they can.”
The fragile line
Thousands of miles away and 30 years later, those who lost loved ones in the My Lai massacre would tell CNN they were never truly able to move on.
A crowd of more than 1,000 Vietnamese citizens and US soldiers gathered in 1998 in the remote village to honor those who were killed and reflect on the horrors that took place.
Thompson, who was hailed as a hero by the Vietnamese for his actions that day, told those gathered at the 1998 memorial he wished they could’ve done more.
“I cannot explain why it happened,” Thompson said at the time. “I just wish our crew that day could have helped more people than we did.”
Thompson and his door gunner, Lawrence Colburn, were later awarded the Army’s prestigious Soldier’s Medal for their efforts to stop the massacre.
Nguyen Chung, who lost his father and his 6-year-old daughter during the massacre, told CNN he was still haunted by their memory.
“I usually keep it in my heart, but the emotion grows as their death day grows near,” he said.
In 2009, Calley – who had long shunned reporters – publicly apologized for his role in the massacre for the first time during a speech at the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus in Georgia.
“There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai,” Calley said, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. “I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry.”
In response to the tragedy at My Lai – and in an effort to prevent such war crimes from happening again – Borsh said the US military began embedding military legal experts into active-duty units.
“Every single military operation that’s ever planned or ever carried out now, military lawyers are involved in making sure that what’s done is legal,” he said. “And that’s all a result of a recognition that we can’t have another My Lai.”
For Allison, the lesson of the massacre is also one of how war can mar both individuals and a nation.
“(My Lai) reminds us how fragile the line is between who we think we are as Americans, what we value, and how we behave in war – and what war can actually do to you,” he said.
“No war is a ‘good war,’ … we need to just do the best we can to ensure that the young men and women in uniform are as prepared as possible to face these moral and ethical choices.”
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/us/my-la ... index.html
William L. Calley Jr., the only US Army soldier to be convicted in the 1968 My Lai massacre, which saw more than 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians killed by US soldiers in one of the most notorious war crimes in American history, has died. He was 80.
Calley’s death was first reported by The Washington Post, citing his death certificate. CNN later confirmed Calley died on April 28, through public records maintained by the Social Security Administration. He had been living in Gainesville, Florida, according to those records.
For decades, Calley’s name was synonymous with one of the worst atrocities of the Vietnam War, as the lieutenant who led Charlie Company to My Lai, though he maintained he was following orders. While multiple officers were charged in connection with the massacre, Calley was the only one convicted.
According to historians, his actions sharply divided the nation, pitting those who supported the US efforts to rout out communism against those who felt the tragedy underscored the country’s moral and ethical decline during the war.
“The photograph of the Napalm Girl … the picture of General Loan shooting the Viet Cong in Saigon. Calley just brings to mind all of those things,” said Bill Allison, history professor at Georgia Southern University and author of the book “My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War.”
“But the fact is, the vast majority of the NCOs and young lieutenants and captains served with honor in Vietnam and did the best they could in this horrible situation,” Allison said.
“And they didn’t wantonly kill unarmed men, women and children.”
The massacre
On March 16, 1968, US Army soldiers gunned down hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in the remote hamlet of My Lai in South Vietnam.
“It is the worst war crime in American history – certainly the worst war crime committed by soldiers in the American Army,” said retired Col. Fred Borch, a military lawyer and the former regimental historian and archivist for the US Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
The US Army concluded nearly 350 people died in the attack, but the Vietnamese government puts the number at closer to 500, Borch said.
A 1970 investigation by the House Armed Services Committee details what began in the early hours of the morning, when units of the Army’s 11th Brigade landed outside the small hamlet they referred to as My Lai.
The soldiers, acting on flawed intelligence that a Viet Cong unit had been stationed in the village, had been briefed that “all civilians were expected to be gone from the hamlet at the time set for the assault,” according to the report.
“The units involved in the My Lai operation had minimal training with respect to the handling of civilians under the Rules of Engagement and the Geneva Conventions,” the report stated.
Although Charlie Company – where Calley was an officer – had yet to see direct combat, the report noted the unit had also suffered more than 40 casualties in their four months in Vietnam as a result of “mines, booby traps, and sniper fire.”
Allison said some would later speculate if the attack was an attempt at “payback.” Calley would claim during his court martial hearing that he had been ordered to kill the unarmed civilians, an allegation his superiors denounced.
“When they got to the village, it was full of unresisting and unarmed women and children and old men,” Borch said. “Calley and his men rounded up these civilians and then Calley ordered his men to kill them.”
The massacre lasted for hours. Homes were destroyed and set ablaze. Women were raped by soldiers and an investigation later revealed that dead civilians were found on roads, in ditches and in rice paddies throughout the village. Many women died protecting children.
During the melee, US Army pilot Hugh Thompson landed his helicopter between soldiers and civilians. With the help of his crew, Thompson gathered those he could and evacuated them to safety.
Thompson later reported what he’d witnessed to his commanders – including a military chaplain – but it would take years before a full accounting of the massacre would come to light.
The Armed Services Committee report concluded the responsible officers “failed to make adequate, timely investigation and report of the My Lai allegations.”
Borch put it more bluntly.
“The war crime was covered up for a year,” he said. “Thompson reported that he had seen this war crime to his superiors, but nothing was done.”
The revelation
A soldier named Ron Ridenhour was so appalled to learn about the My Lai massacre from soldiers who had witnessed the attack that he began a letter campaign to lawmakers and Army commanders, demanding a federal investigation.
Then, in 1969 – more than a year after the massacre and cover-up – journalist Seymour Hersh’s investigative reporting on the tragedy made headlines, and Life Magazine published gruesome images taken by an army photographer during the attack that rocked the American conscious.
The country was not far removed from the atrocities of the Holocaust and World War II and Allison said the images sparked soul searching.
But convicting those responsible for the massacre would prove to be a challenge.
At the time, Allison said, the Uniform Code of Military Justice required anyone brought on charges to be an active member of the military and in the year since the attack at My Lai, many who were involved had been discharged.
Calley was charged with the premeditated murder of Vietnamese civilians “literally a day or two before he was supposed to be discharged,” Allison said.
An investigation and trial were held at Fort Benning, which is today known as Fort Moore, and evidence was presented to a jury of soldiers and veterans.
“There was this fear that the jury of five officers might be inclined to say something like, ‘There but for the grace of God go I,’” Borch said. “But they found him guilty of premeditated murder and he was sentenced to life in prison.”
A 1971 Gallup poll taken shortly after Calley’s guilty conviction found that 79% of Americans disapproved of the verdict, while only 9% approved and 12% said they had “no opinion,” The New York Times reported at the time.
But in a shocking turn of events, Calley was released on parole after spending just a few years of his sentence under house arrest.
Calley’s sentence was initially reduced to 20 years by the general who convened the case, Borch said. “Then, the Secretary of the Army, in an unprecedented action, reduced the sentence further to 10 years,” Borch said, adding at the time, soldiers were eligible for parole if they served a third of their sentence.
President Richard Nixon intervened in the case and ordered Calley’s sentence to be reduced to house arrest, according to the Associated Press.
“He was paroled almost immediately,” Borch said. “He went on with his life as a civilian.”
Allison noted Nixon was heading into an election year and said he believes politics ultimately began to outweigh morality.
“Everybody was sick of Vietnam,” he said. “It was in the news all the time and they just wanted to get away from Vietnam as quick as they can.”
The fragile line
Thousands of miles away and 30 years later, those who lost loved ones in the My Lai massacre would tell CNN they were never truly able to move on.
A crowd of more than 1,000 Vietnamese citizens and US soldiers gathered in 1998 in the remote village to honor those who were killed and reflect on the horrors that took place.
Thompson, who was hailed as a hero by the Vietnamese for his actions that day, told those gathered at the 1998 memorial he wished they could’ve done more.
“I cannot explain why it happened,” Thompson said at the time. “I just wish our crew that day could have helped more people than we did.”
Thompson and his door gunner, Lawrence Colburn, were later awarded the Army’s prestigious Soldier’s Medal for their efforts to stop the massacre.
Nguyen Chung, who lost his father and his 6-year-old daughter during the massacre, told CNN he was still haunted by their memory.
“I usually keep it in my heart, but the emotion grows as their death day grows near,” he said.
In 2009, Calley – who had long shunned reporters – publicly apologized for his role in the massacre for the first time during a speech at the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus in Georgia.
“There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai,” Calley said, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. “I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry.”
In response to the tragedy at My Lai – and in an effort to prevent such war crimes from happening again – Borsh said the US military began embedding military legal experts into active-duty units.
“Every single military operation that’s ever planned or ever carried out now, military lawyers are involved in making sure that what’s done is legal,” he said. “And that’s all a result of a recognition that we can’t have another My Lai.”
For Allison, the lesson of the massacre is also one of how war can mar both individuals and a nation.
“(My Lai) reminds us how fragile the line is between who we think we are as Americans, what we value, and how we behave in war – and what war can actually do to you,” he said.
“No war is a ‘good war,’ … we need to just do the best we can to ensure that the young men and women in uniform are as prepared as possible to face these moral and ethical choices.”
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William Calley, officer convicted for his role in My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, dead at 80
Fun Fact: I was in the gallery for one day of the trial as a member of my high school's Future Lawyers Club.
Didn't make it to Law School, or Med School, or A&P School.
However, if I had I would have been safe in my Bonanza(known here as a V-Tail doctor killer, been able to do my own maintenance, and defend myself against any malpractice lawsuits.
That was the plan anyway.
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Fun Fact: I was in the gallery for one day of the trial as a member of my high school's Future Lawyers Club.
Didn't make it to Law School, or Med School, or A&P School.
However, if I had I would have been safe in my Bonanza(known here as a V-Tail doctor killer, been able to do my own maintenance, and defend myself against any malpractice lawsuits.
That was the plan anyway.
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When all else fails, read the instructions.
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Sven-Goran Eriksson, former England Football manager, gone at 76 after a long illness.
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Denise Prudhomme, former Wells Fargo employee at a corporate office in Arizona clocked in to what would be her last-ever shift on a Friday morning. Her body was found four days later at her cubicle desk, where she died sometime during the weekend, according to the Tempe Police Department.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/31/us/wells ... index.html
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Dedication to the job or worked to death?
Hope her heirs get her compensation for the four days she was on the clock.
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Hope her heirs get her compensation for the four days she was on the clock.
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Lady Helen Wogan, widow of Sir Terry.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle ... e-29879640
88 years.
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88 years.
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Sergio Mendes, Brazilian bossa nova music innovator, dies at 83
The Brazilian Grammy-winning musician, whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months battling the effects of long Covid.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/serg ... rcna169958
RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian Grammy-winning musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months of battling the effects of long Covid. He was 83.
The death Thursday of the Brazilian pianist, songwriter, and arranger was confirmed in a statement by his family.
“His wife and musical partner for the past 54 years, Gracinha Leporace Mendes, was by his side, as were his loving children,” the statement Friday said. “Mendes last performed in November 2023 to sold out and wildly enthusiastic houses in Paris, London and Barcelona.”
His composition “Mas que Nada” was one of the songs that helped popularize the Brazilian music genre bossa nova worldwide in the 1960s.
In 2006, a modern version of the song topped U.S. charts, as performed by Black Eyed Peas. It was included in his album “Timeless,” produced by will.i.am and featuring Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas, among others.
“Sergio Mendes was my brother from another country,” trumpet player Herb Alpert wrote on Facebook, along with a photo from decades ago, sitting next to Mendes at the piano. “He was a true friend and extremely gifted musician who brought Brazilian music in all its iterations to the entire world with elegance.”
Mendes also composed the soundtrack for the film “Pelé,” featuring saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, and even produced an album recorded by the Brazilian legendary soccer player.
Mendes won the 1992 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for “Brasileiro” and two Latin Grammy Awards. He also received an Oscar nomination in 2012 for Best Original Song for “Real in Rio,” from the animated film “Rio.”
Mendes’ family said they will provide details regarding funeral and memorial services at a later date.
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The Brazilian Grammy-winning musician, whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months battling the effects of long Covid.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/serg ... rcna169958
RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian Grammy-winning musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months of battling the effects of long Covid. He was 83.
The death Thursday of the Brazilian pianist, songwriter, and arranger was confirmed in a statement by his family.
“His wife and musical partner for the past 54 years, Gracinha Leporace Mendes, was by his side, as were his loving children,” the statement Friday said. “Mendes last performed in November 2023 to sold out and wildly enthusiastic houses in Paris, London and Barcelona.”
His composition “Mas que Nada” was one of the songs that helped popularize the Brazilian music genre bossa nova worldwide in the 1960s.
In 2006, a modern version of the song topped U.S. charts, as performed by Black Eyed Peas. It was included in his album “Timeless,” produced by will.i.am and featuring Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas, among others.
“Sergio Mendes was my brother from another country,” trumpet player Herb Alpert wrote on Facebook, along with a photo from decades ago, sitting next to Mendes at the piano. “He was a true friend and extremely gifted musician who brought Brazilian music in all its iterations to the entire world with elegance.”
Mendes also composed the soundtrack for the film “Pelé,” featuring saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, and even produced an album recorded by the Brazilian legendary soccer player.
Mendes won the 1992 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for “Brasileiro” and two Latin Grammy Awards. He also received an Oscar nomination in 2012 for Best Original Song for “Real in Rio,” from the animated film “Rio.”
Mendes’ family said they will provide details regarding funeral and memorial services at a later date.
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I love Brazilian music and am a huge fan of Sergio Mendes. I had always been curious about the title 'Mais Que Nada'. (It is often written in Spanish as 'Mas Que Nada'). It doesn't really make sense in Portuguese, let alone English. Literally translated, it means 'more than nothing'. There has been much debate over the years, with Mendes himself offering little in the way of explanation. Some Brazilians have said that it means 'whatever', but I doubt this, since that expression was not in use when the song was written. An alternative offering was 'More Than Anything', which goes better with the lyrics. Nada is one of those words that can be used in different ways, so it probably seemed easier to use it in the title. Here endeth the first (Portuguese) lesson. 
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JD Souther, singer who co-wrote Eagles classics like 'New Kid in Town,' dies at 78
Souther was also known for acting roles on "Nashville" and "Thirtysomething," as well as being a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop ... rcna171623
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Souther was also known for acting roles on "Nashville" and "Thirtysomething," as well as being a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop ... rcna171623
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