MC GH do 7 came together in Rio de Janeiro's favelas in the late 2000s, with Gabriel Henrique dos Santos at the center. They started playing at local parties and street gatherings, making music that spoke directly to their neighborhood's experiences.
Their 2009 single "Sonho de Moleque" connected with listeners across Brazil. The song's straightforward lyrics about young people's hopes and daily realities found an audience, though some critics objected to the group's frankness about life in the favelas.
They kept releasing music after that, working within the funk carioca scene that had shaped them from the beginning.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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