{"id":7088,"date":"2024-09-06T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2024-09-07T17:55:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T21:55:17","slug":"sergio-mendes-brazilian-bossa-nova-musician-dies-of-long-covid-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sergio-mendes-brazilian-bossa-nova-musician-dies-of-long-covid-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e9rgio Mendes, Brazilian Bossa Nova Musician, Dies of Long Covid at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e9rgio Mendes, the Brazilian-born musician who brought bossa nova music to a global audience in the 1960s, died on Thursday, Sept.&nbsp;5, in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>The renowned musician\u2019s family announced his death in a statement on his social media channels. His family said that his death was caused by effects of long Covid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis wife and musical partner for the past 54 years, Gracinha Leporace Mendes, was by his side, as were his loving children,\u201d the statement read. \u201cMendes last performed in November 2023 to sold out and wildly enthusiastic houses in Paris, London and Barcelona.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e9rgio Mendes, the Brazilian-born musician who brought bossa nova music to a global audience in the 1960s, died on Thursday, Sept.&nbsp;5, in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>The renowned musician\u2019s family announced his death in a statement on his social media channels. His family said that his death was caused by effects of long Covid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis wife and musical partner for the past 54 years, Gracinha Leporace Mendes, was by his side, as were his loving children,\u201d the statement read. \u201cMendes last performed in November 2023 to sold out and wildly enthusiastic houses in Paris, London and Barcelona.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sergio-mendes-brazilian-bossa-nova-musician-dies-of-long-covid-at-83\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S\u00e9rgio Mendes, Brazilian Bossa Nova Musician, Dies of Long Covid at 83<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,150,391,11,1228,14],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-musicians","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}