Guilherme Arantes is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian singer-songwriter and pianist. As a teenager, he was a member of the band Os Polissonantes, which also featured Brazilian actor Kadu Moliterno on Bass guitar

Bass guitar

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. In 1969, Arantes started the band Moto Perpétuo with fellow students from USP

University of São Paulo

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's architecture course. It was with Moto Perpétuo that Arantes got his first taste of touring and recording in a studio. The band split up in 1974 as Arantes wanted to pursue a more commercial, pop

Pop music

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 style of music. Arantes dropped out of university to dedicate himself to his solo career, and in 1976, his song Meu mundo e nada mais (My world and nothing more) was picked by Rede Globo

Rede Globo

Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

 to feature in the soundtrack for the telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 Anjo Mau

Anjo Mau

Anjo Mau is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo between September 8, 1997 and March 27, 1998, in 173 chapters.Featured Glória Pires, Kadu Moliterno, Maria Padilha, Daniel Dantas, Leonardo Brício, Alessandra Negrini, Mauro Mendonça and Gabriel Braga Nunes in leading...

. The song was a hit

Hit record

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, and Arantes toured the country for the first time. His first self-titled album was released the same year on Globo's Som Livre

Som Livre

Som Livre is a Brazilian record company that was founded by Rede Globo in 1969 to commercialize its soap opera soundtracks, later expanding to record studio albums....

 label. The song Cuide-se bem (Take good care) from the same record, was also picked by Globo for another telenovela, Duas Vidas. Arantes went on to write another 23 songs for Globo's telenovelas, most of which became radio hits. Besides his solo work, he has also written songs for artists such as Gang 90 & Absurdettes, Elis Regina

Elis Regina

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing Arrastão in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record...

, Marina Lima

Marina Lima

Marina Correia Lima is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. She is a prominent female pioneer of Brazilian rock music.-Career:From the age of five to twelve, Marina lived in the United States and learned to read first in English and then in Portuguese. She gained attention in 1977 when popular...

 and Maria Bethânia

Maria Bethânia

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.

Discography

• Moto Perpétuo
  Moto Perpétuo (album)
  Moto Perpétuo is the eponymous debut album by Brazilian Rock progressivo band originally released on 1974 vinyl edition on Phonodisc/Discos Continental label...
  
  (1974) as a member of Moto Perpétuo.
• Guilherme Arantes (1976)
• Ronda Noturna (1977)
• A Cara e a Coragem (1978)
• Guilherme Arantes (1979)
• Coração Paulista (1980)
• Guilherme Arantes (1982)
• Ligação (1983)
• Despertar (1985)
• Calor (1986)
• Guilherme Arantes (1987)
• Romances Modernos (1989)
• Pão (1990)
• Meu Mundo e Tudo Mais (1990)
• Crescente (1992), Castelos (1993)
• Clássicos (1994)
• Outras Cores (1996)
• Maioridade (1997)
• Guilherme Arantes (1999)
• New Classical Piano Solos (2000)
• Guilherme Arantes - Ao Vivo (2001)
• Aprendiz (2003)
• Lótus (2007)