Guilherme Arantes

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, on July 28, 1953, Guilherme Arantes is a singer, songwriter, and pianist. He began his musical career in Os Polissonantes before branching off and forming his own band Moto Perpétuo in 1969. The band spent their first few years playing locally before they finally released their debut album, Moto Perpétuo, in 1974. The band split up the same year and Arantes dropped out of college to focus on a solo career. His self-titled solo debut was released in 1976. The album contained the hit single "Meu Mundo e Nada Mais", which climbed the charts after it was featured on the telenovela Anjo Mau. Another track from the album, “Cuide-se Bem”, was featured on the telenovela Duas Vidas. With the success of the music used on telenovelas, Arantes continued to write and record songs that were used on TV, many of them becoming radio hits, including 1985’s “Cheia de Charme”. In total, he has recorded over two dozen albums including A Cara e a Coragem (1978), Calor (1986), Pāo (1990), and Flores & Cores (2017). Guilherme Arantes is an officially sponsored Steinway Artist. He followed with the concept-driven studio album A Desordem dos Templários (2021), developed while living in Ávila, Spain, where his immersion in orchestration and early-music studies shaped the record’s symphonic textures. In the following years, he issued new recordings—among them the singles “Cheia de Charme (Remix)” (2023) and “O Prazer de Viver Para Mim é Você” (2024) and—and took part in several collaborations. Early 2024 brought a successful hip replacement, and after a catheterization with angioplasty at the turn of 2025 he announced a year-long pause from live commitments.