Gui Hargreaves

Gui Hargreavesis a promising name of the contemporary ‘new MPB’ generation (for Brazilian popular music). Singersongwriter and poet from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Gui, 26, began his career in Belo Horizonte, then moved to São Paulo in early 2017. Gui creates in his songs a fusion of elements of different natures, uniting roots of Brazilian song-writing and traditional rhythms to contemporary poetics. Also feeding a lot from other countries own popular music traditions: jazz, rock, pop, folk, classical, eastern and western music have all been great influences in his work. Having travelled a lot around Brazil and other counties, he has let himself be influenced by the landscapes he travelled through, and his songs carry the tales from those places he wandered by, and the people he met; speaking of human relations, dreams and affections, meetings and mismatches. Gui was on the road for the whole of 2016, right after putting out his first album, Braseiro. During this time, he performed in cities like Rome, Milan, Ortigia, London, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Out there he collaborated with plenty of talented musicians such as Erlend Øye, Tess Amodeo-Vickery, Sasha Pushkin and Stefano Ortisi; had music videos recorded and live radio shows at local stations. In London, Gui performed at the Vortex Club, Joyeux Bordel (with the English-Brazilian singer Nina Miranda - Smoke City) and was also the live music act for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony party at the Embassy of Brazil in London. When in the USA, he performed gigs in various historical live music spots in New York City, such as the Bowery Electric, The Map Room, Silvana’s, Club Bonafide and Pete's Candy Store. Still there he recorded a couple of videos for the international project Sofar Sounds, for which he went to the west coast to play, in LA and SF. Beyond music, he dedicates himself also to writing poetry, and this devotion to the lyrical part he carries all the way into the process of writing his songs. Having a book of contemporary haiku poetry published in 2014, entitled ‘diminuto’.