Sergio Mello

Sergio Mello is a Brazilian singer-songwriter born in Sao Paulo and raised in Rio de Janeiro. He worked as a Music Journalist for fifteen years writing for many newspapers and magazines in Brazil. So far, he has published two books, the autobiographical “Rock Story”, and “L.A. Blues”, a collection of short stories about Los Angeles. He grew up in the Sixties, during the British Invasion and the Bossa Nova craze and that had a major effect on his work as a writer. At the age of fifteen, he was already on a road with a Rock band playing Beatles, Stones, Animals and The Zombies. Sergio began to travel internationally when he won a trip to London at the age of twenty-one from the College Music Festival Contest. He lived in Portugal, Spain, Germany and England, where he had a chance to work in various magazines and play with different bands. Back in Brazil, Sergio recorded two CDs with his band, ElectronicBrazilianSoul, a mix of samba, jazz and trip hop, a “Beck meets Jobim” type of thing. The nineties caught Mello back in the States recording with his band Smello & the Flu, a combo inspired by the music of Alex Chilton and The Beach Boys. He lives in Nashville, TN where he is recording a new CD of originals while working on a new romance.