2025 Competition Entry:

Berceuse by Guilherme Arantes

Genre

Pop

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Guilherme Arantes: piano
Jacques Morelenbaum: Strings

Description

The inspiration of this song was a “lullaby”. The term “berceuse” itself means “lullaby” in French, and the song lives up to this name with its soft melodies and tender lyrics.

Bio

Guilherme Arantes is Brazilian composer, singer and pianist, with twenty-seven recorded albums along with 47 years of artistic career.
Many songs written by Arantes were recorded by major Brazilian artists, like Roberto Carlos, Maria Bethania, Elis Regina, Alaide Costa, Claudette Soares, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Leila Pinheiro, Nando Reis, Paulo Miklos, Fagner, Vanessa da Matta, Céu, and Edu Falaschi.
Since the year two thousand, he has belonged to the Roster of Steinway Artists, the endorsees´ Gallery of the famous piano factory of New York and Hamburg.
Guilherme Arantes composing style is considered a mix of pop, progressive rock, R&B, and much of the Brazilian heritage of bossa nova and “MPB”.

Lyrics

It is an instrumental song

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