Conversation so far:
When did Sérgio Mendes's career begin?
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 emerging.
What was his first recording?
Mendes formed the Sexteto Bossa Rio and recorded Dance Moderno in 1961.

Question: Where did he do his first tour?
Self-contained rewrite: Where did Sérgio Mendes do his first tour?