Sergio Mendes (1983 album)

Sergio Mendes
Studio album by
Released1983
Recorded1983
Studio
Genre
LabelA&M
ProducerSérgio Mendes (with Jose Quintana on track 9)
Sérgio Mendes chronology
Alegria (Sérgio Mendes album)
(1980)
Sergio Mendes
(1983)
Confetti
(1984)
Singles from Sergio Mendes
  1. "Never Gonna Let You Go"
    Released: April 1983
  2. "Rainbow's End"
    Released: August 1983

Sergio Mendes is an album by Brazilian keyboardist Sérgio Mendes, released in 1983 on A&M Records. It was his first top 40 album in nearly a decade and a half, his second self-titled album, and was accompanied by his biggest chart single ever, "Never Gonna Let You Go", a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and with a lead vocal performed by Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller that reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was released with Spanish-language versions of the songs as Picardía.