Vince Mendoza, Luciana Souza ready to deliver beautiful Brazilian ballads at Stanford

Anna Webber/courtesy of Luciana Souza Grammy-winning singer Luciana Souza teams with Vince Mendoza in a concert March 25 at Stanford.

When it comes to orchestrating a perfect song Vince Mendoza knows that the first rule is to get out of the way.

A seven-time Grammy Award winner who picked up his latest golden statue last month for his arrangement of Christie McVie’s title track on her final record, “Songbird — A Solo Collection,” Mendoza is the go-to arranger for singular singers. Björk, Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Sting, Dianne Reeves and Bobby McFerrin have all called upon his services.

He returns to the Bay

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