the Guimê that is not seen in the ‘BBB’

“He won’t walk, talk and will be a retard.” These were the words that Maria Cristina and Paulo Eduardo heard when Guilherme Aparecido Dantas Pinho was born, prematurely, at six months. The prognosis, however, never stopped the parents of the frail and silent child from trying to make the dissonant future a more melodious life for him. There were many sessions at the AACD (Association for Assistance to Disabled Children) in which the child was carefully carried in his lap, because anything that touched his body, with a little more force, would hurt him.

Paulo quit his job to take care of Guilherme while Maria Cristina supported the house as an employee at a hypermarket. Besides them, there was Rodrigo, the eldest, only two years older than his brother. As the treatment progressed, the marriage collapsed. When the boy, given up by doctors, was already walking and speaking the first syllables, the parents separated. He was 4 years old.

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He moved from the outskirts of Osasco, São Paulo, with his father, an electrician’s helper, who had found a job in Paraná, and his older brother, his best companion, stayed with his mother. Life wanted Paulo to find Silvana, who fell in love right away with that child, who would now be his stepson. On returning to their old home, a rented house, she was with them. Cristina had already gone to another city and the brothers were reunited.

From then on Guilherme gained a new routine. The boy who would be mute was the biggest talker in school. The boy who could be paralyzed ran so hard after the kites he loved to fly that it took the threat of a slipper to make it home by 9pm. The child who, compared to others, would be left behind, learned to rhyme. The baby who was born ahead of time became Guimê. The MC and the player who is now dealing the cards at “BBB 23”.

“I was always very proud of Guilherme. He was always that tomboy. And even when he was up to no good, I thought he would give me trouble, but he would also give me many reasons to get emotional”, says the father, to whom Guimê is very attached. It’s not for less. Paulo is for the four children (Rodrigo, Guimê, Thiago and Nicole) a kind of superhero without a cape. “My father taught us everything. It has always been our benchmark. We had a very humble childhood, but we never lacked for food. Lux? None. Luxury was when Silvana made lasagna on Sunday, every 60 days. Guimê would stay by the stove waiting”, recalls Rodrigo Dantas, artistic manager, the older brother.

Small pleasures, such as Sunday lasagna or stuffed biscuits and sticker packs that mother Cris sent her children once a month, punctuated Guimê’s ambitions. At age 10, he asked for a job at a grocery store. He would pack the fruit, sell the bags and earn R$70 a week. “He thought he was a millionaire! With R$ 280, at that time, he spent on a kite, an Internet cafe to play video games and tennis. Because at home, sneakers passed from one to the other. We didn’t have any money,” recalls his brother.

Already at 14, Guimê had the idea of ​​having parties. Electronic music was in vogue. Although he and his brother only listened to rap, day and night, and sertanejo, when their father was able to take control of the sound system, he insisted on taking the sound to Osasco. “He always had a good word. because he worked with space owners, with DJs, leafleted and sold at R$ 10 each ticket. He did this for a month with two friends. I was at the ticket office. In the end, there was about R$100 left over for each one, but it was a very happy phase”, says Rodrigo.

From there it didn’t take long to want to be a singer. “He saw that funk in Rio had exploded and wanted to do the same. He made up his mind that he was going to sing. He wasn’t a singer, was he? But he rhymed really well. I used to say to my father, ‘Guilherme is crazy’. And I said to him, ‘Go deep!'”. The first shows were seen by classmates from school, from the neighborhood, from the hood. also a thief.”

Funk with its own lyrics, later called ostentação funk, began to be successful in the periphery. But not with the girls. Guimê, then 17 years old, suffered from rejection. “Many times he fell in love and the thing didn’t go away. Even girls he’d dated or dated. And he suffered”, observes Rodrigo.

Everything turned to music. And everything also changed when Guimê became known, gained fame and bought his first car. “He already played six shows a month and asked me to finance a car for him. I was a train driver at the CTPM (Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos). I went with my heart in my hand and he got zero a Honda Civic at the agency. But he paid all 30 installments of R$1,800 each. He said that if he finished a show and went home by bus, no contractor would respect him”, says Rodrigo.

Everything was starting to flow, but his father wanted him to get a formal job. Guimê couldn’t even imagine that for life. Until “Pais do Futebol” came along. At that stage he had already left home, had his first tattoo (his father’s name) and was earning money and fame. “When he got home, he opened his notebook to show the clip, we cried together, with emotion”, Rodrigo is moved.

The first big money he earned was earmarked for his own house for Paulo and Silvana, a childhood dream. “For me, he is pure hearted, a respectful, polite and very correct boy”, spills the father. Guimê’s biological mother is not far behind. Despite being apart due to circumstances in his childhood, she and the singer maintain a very close relationship. They even look like each other.

“We are very similar physically and we were born in the same month. He was a mischievous, stubborn boy who grew up to be the best man I know. He has a huge heart, many qualities and I usually say that, when I grow up, I want to be just like Guilherme”, says Cris, his voice breaking.