Gabriele Leite could foresee her life’s calling when she was still a little girl. All she had to do was pretend to play the guitar on a broom.

Total dedication to music, research, and performance is the life story of this young woman from Cerquilho, São Paulo, born in 1997, the daughter of a seamstress and an auto mechanic. Gabriele got her first real guitar from her grandfather at 6 years of age. She has grown since then and is now engraving her name in the list of the greatest Brazilian instrumentalists of all time. The little girl began her first formal musical studies in a social project called Projeto Guri, from her first lessons in posture to her initiation in reading sheet music. It was a leap from there to the Tatuí Conservatory: at age 11, she began more in-depth training in guitar and various subjects like theory, perception, and choral music, earning a scholarship in the last two years of the course. She spent her mornings at regular school and her afternoons in the conservatory.