Gabriel Silva Felizardo, known professionally as Gabeu, was born on April 15,
1998, in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil. The youngest son of singer Solimões, from
the sertanejo duo Rionegro & Solimões, he began composing songs and
participating in a Spiritist theatre group at age 12. He later studied dance and
performing arts, taught theatre to children, and moved to São Paulo at 18 to
study film direction and music production. Drawing on his sertanejo upbringing
and his experiences as a gay man, Gabeu helped establish queernejo, a movement
that places LGBTQIA+ stories within Brazilian ...