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Sérgio Santos Mendes (born Niteroi, 11 February 1941) is a Brazilian musician. Born the son of a physician in Niteroi, Brazil, Mendes attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As his interest in jazz grew, he started playing in nightclubs in the late-1950s just as bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, was taking off. Mendes played with Antonio Carlos Jobim (regarded as a mentor), and many U.S. jazz musicians who toured Brazil.
Mendes formed the Sexteto Bossa Rio and recorded Dance Moderno in 1961. Touring Europe and the United States, Mendes recorded albums with Cannonball Adderly and Herbie Mann and played Carnegie Hall. Mendes moved to the U.S. in 1964 and cut two albums under the Brasil '65 group name with Capitol Records and Atlantic Records. When sales were tepid, he replaced his Brazilian born vocalist Wanda Sa with the distinctive voice of Chicago native Lani Hall (who learned Mendes' Portuguese material phonetically) and switched to Herb Alpert's A&M label and released Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66. (Hall would later marry Alpert). The album ultimately went platinum based largely upon the success of the single Mas Que Nada and the personal support of Alpert, with whom Mendes toured regularly. Though his early singles with Brasil '66 (most notably Mas Que Nada) met with some success, Mendes really burst into mainstream prominence when he performed the Oscar nominated Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "The Look of Love" on the Academy Awards telecast in March 1968. Brasil '66's version of the song quickly shot into the top 10, eclipsing Dusty Springfield's version from the soundtrack of the movie, and Mendes spent the rest of 1968 enjoying consecutive top 10 and top 20 hits with his follow-up singles, "The Fool on the Hill" and "Scarborough Fair." Though he continued to enjoy adult contemporary chart successes with Brasil '66 through 1971, he would not experience the mainstream chart hits he enjoyed in 1968 until his comeback album in 1983 generated the biggest single of his career, "Never Gonna Let You Go." However, from 1968 on, Mendes was arguably the biggest Brazilian star in the world, enjoying immense popularity worldwide and performing in venues as varied as stadium arenas and the White House, where he gave concerts for both President Johnson and President Nixon.
Mendes' career in the U.S. stalled in the mid-70s, but he remained very popular in South America and Japan. (This disparity became a Seinfeld in-joke.) His two albums with Bell Records in 1973 and 1974, followed by several for Elektra from 1975 on, found Mendes continuing to mine the best in American pop music and post-Bossa writers of his native Brazil, while forging new directions in soul with collaborators like Stevie Wonder, who wrote Mendes' R&B-inflected minor hit, "The Real Thing." In 1983, he rejoined Alpert's A&M records and enjoyed huge success with a self-titled album and several follow-up albums, all of which received considerable adult contemporary airplay with charting singles. By the time Mendes released his Grammy-winning Elektra album Brasileiro in 1992, he was the undisputed master of pop-inflected Brazilian jazz. The late-1990s lounge music revival brought retrospection and respect to Mendes' oeuvre, particularly the classic Brasil '66 albums. He has released over thirty-five albums, and still plays his bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. His newest album, Timeless released in 2006, featured Chali 2na of Jurassic 5, will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas, Q-Tip, Justin Timberlake, and Pharoahe Monch.
(Text taken in whole from the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Mendes on March 30, 2006)
Acode
Sergio Mendes Lyrics
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Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem
E ela vem, que vem pisando
Na barra da saia amarela
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem
Troca as pernas e troca tudo
Tomou uma pinga de caju
Achando que era Ki-suco
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem
Troca as pernas e troca tudo
Pisou no rabo do cachorro brabo
Acordou xingando o mundo
Acode que lá vem
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
The lyrics to Sérgio Mendes's song "Acode" describe a woman who is walking unsteadily down the street. The repeated phrase "acode que lá vem ela" can be translated as "watch out, here she comes." The woman is wearing a yellow skirt, and the singer describes how she is stumbling and tripping. In the second verse, we learn that the woman has been drinking and has mistaken a shot of cachaça (a type of Brazilian spirit made from sugarcane) for a fruit juice. The third verse introduces a humorous incident where the woman accidentally steps on a "dog's tail" and wakes up swearing.
Line by Line Meaning
Acode que lá vem,
Get ready because she's coming,
Acode que lá vem ela
She's on her way,
E acode que lá vem ela
And there she comes,
Acode que lá vem,
Get ready because she's coming,
Acode que lá vem ela
She's on her way,
E acode que lá vem ela
And there she comes,
Acode que lá vem
Get ready because she's coming
E ela vem cambaleando,
She's stumbling as she walks,
E ela vem, que vem pisando
She's stepping,
Na barra da saia amarela
On the hem of her yellow skirt.
Acode que lá vem,
Get ready because she's coming,
Acode que lá vem ela
She's on her way,
E acode que lá vem ela
And there she comes,
Acode que lá vem,
Get ready because she's coming,
Acode que lá vem ela
She's on her way,
E acode que lá vem ela
And there she comes,
Acode que lá vem
Get ready because she's coming
Troca as pernas e troca tudo
She stumbles and everything changes,
Tomou uma pinga de caju
She drank some cashew liquor,
Achando que era Ki-suco
Thinking it was a type of juice.
Acode que lá vem,
Get ready because she's coming,
Acode que lá vem ela
She's on her way,
E acode que lá vem ela
And there she comes,
Acode que lá vem,
Get ready because she's coming,
Acode que lá vem ela
She's on her way,
E acode que lá vem ela
And there she comes,
Acode que lá vem
Get ready because she's coming
Troca as pernas e troca tudo
She stumbles and everything changes,
Pisou no rabo do cachorro brabo
She stepped on the tail of a mean dog,
Acordou xingando o mundo
She woke up cursing the world.
Acode que lá vem
Get ready because she's coming
Acode que lá vem ela
She's on her way
E acode que lá vem ela
And there she comes
Contributed by Chase A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Sincero carlos
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem
E ela vem cambaleando,
E ela vem, que vem pisando
Na barra da saia amarela
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem
Troca as pernas e troca tudo
Tomou uma pinga de caju
Achando que era Ki-suco
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem,
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
Acode que lá vem
Troca as pernas e troca tudo
Pisou no rabo do cachorro brabo
Acordou xingando o mundo
Acode que lá vem
Acode que lá vem ela
E acode que lá vem ela
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