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Sergio Guilherme Nunes Saraceni (Rio de Janeiro November 1, 1952) is a musician, composer, arranger and producer very active in the original musical soundtrack Brazilian scene, from 1975 to 2014.

In 1962, still a boy at the age of 9, Saraceni met the composer Antônio Carlos Jobim during the recordings of the original score for the feature film "Porto das Caixas," directed by his uncle Paulo Cezar Saraceni. This fact would change his life forever, and Saraceni would have from then on his trajectory intertwined with music and the figure of Jobim, his great mentor and inspirer, having become good friends and partners in endless conversations in the bars of Ipanema and Leblon.

From the age of 11, always stimulated by his father and family, he studied classical guitar with Jodacil Damaceno, piano with Manoel Correa do Lago and Clelia Ognibene, theory with George Kiszely, orchestration and composition with Eunice Katunda, theory and solfeggio with Bohumil Med. He studied orchestration with Francis Hime. At the age of 19, he gets the first place in the entrance exam for the music school Instituto Villa-Lobos-Fefierj (1971), currently UniRio. At the same time, he entered the Law School at Universidade do Estado da Guanabara, UEG, now UERJ.

Professional Career
He moved to the United States in 1972, where he studied arrangement and composition at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, in Boston (not graduated). Saraceni was one of the first Brazilians to arrive at the school that is considered the most renowned center for jazz and popular music studies in the world. Back in Brazil in 1975, he worked as a teacher, teaching classical guitar, piano, and music theory, playing in small ensembles and accompanying popular singers such as Nana Caymmi, Emílio Santiago, and Beth Carvalho, among others.

In 1977, he signs the original soundtrack for his first film, the award-winning Anchieta, José do Brasil, a feature film directed by his uncle Paulo Cezar Saraceni, a work executed by the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, released on disc by the Bandeirantes label, of São Paulo.

From there, he began a long and successful career as a film and television soundtrack composer. He has composed music for more than 40 feature films and countless documentaries, and has worked with some of the most important Brazilian filmmakers. He collaborated with Radamés Gnattali in the production and recording of the soundtrack for the film Eles não usam Black-Tie (1980), by Leon Hirszman. He was awarded the Prize for Best Film by the Jury at the important Venice Film Festival in Italy in 1982. In 1997, he decided to end his career as a film composer.

In Brazilian television
In 1978, after a brief internship in the musical department of TV Globo, he joins the old and famous TV show Globo de Ouro as an arranger, where the most famous singers of the hit parades performed live, with choir and orchestra, or small ensembles. During this time, he builds a solid friendship, professional partnership and acquaintance with maestro Radamés Gnattali,' until his death in 1988, in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1979, he started a pioneering work with conductors Waltel Branco and Geraldo Vespar, writing the first compositions for TV soap operas and series, a work that opened a huge path for Rede Globo and other networks, aiming to create original soundtrack composition nuclei for the works.

Until the early 1980s, there was no inclusion of original music composed by Brazilian musicians and composers, all the TV Globo drama programs were soundtracked by American and European records and soundtracks. In this period, Saraceni's friendship and acquaintance with Jobim and Radamés was strengthened. In his career in television, Saraceni's compositions and musical direction for the miniseries Anos Dourados (1985) and O Tempo e o Vento (1984) and in many successful soap operas, such as Vale Tudo - 1988, Roque Santeiro - 1985, among dozens of other works, stand out.

In 1993, invited by director Nilton Travesso, he transferred from TV Globo to SBT for a new project to create a production center for original music for dramaturgy, something new at that network. He remained at SBT until 1995 when he left his position as musical director. When he leaves, he continues his activities as a composer and producer of soundtracks for cinema and advertising. In 1995, at the invitation of Cecília Conde, he teaches orchestration (1995/1996) at the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1997, at the invitation of musical director Aluísio Didier, he took on the job of musical producer responsible for the soundtracks of the Globonews channel. In 1999, he returns to TV Globo's dramaturgy nucleus as producer, arranger, and composer.

Throughout his career in television and cinema Sergio Saraceni has worked with some of the most important television and cinema directors in the country, such as Roberto Talma, Walter Avancini, Paulo Ubiratan, Denise Saraceni, Roberto Farias, Dennis Carvalho, Jorge Fernando, Ricardo Waddington, Nilton Travesso, Daniel Filho, Paulo Cezar Saraceni, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Carlos Manga, Paulo Thiago, Fábio Barreto, Paulo José, among many others.

Awards
Sergio Saraceni took part in the most important Brazilian film festivals (awarded five times), in the 80's and 90's, in Gramado as well as in Brasília, and received awards in the television channels he went through.

In August 2021, he received from Musimagem Brasil (Associação de Compositores de Música para Audiovisual) the Remo Usai Award, for all his work in 40 years as a film and television composer. Other relevant names awarded with the same prize are Edino Krieger, Sérgio Ricardo, Waltel Branco and Geraldo Vespar.

Personal Life
He ends his professional career in 2014, settling in Petrópolis, a mountainous region in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with his wife Raquel, and close to his son Bruno and grandchildren.