Marcelo Cruz

🎶 Scene: "The Missing Touch in Paradise"

[Heaven Music Studio – 2 AM. Empty beer and coffee bottles, scribbled sheet music notebooks, and an incomplete arrangement of "Paraíso" blinking on the computer screen. Exhaustion is starting to hit the whole team, but Marcelo is still going strong, like a beacon.]

Marcelo (rubbing his eyes, but smiling): "Guys, the lyrics are beautiful, the chorus gives me chills... but something's missing. Something that makes the listener feel the struggle before paradise, you know?"

He walks in circles, his guitar slung over his back, when his blue eyes land on you.

"Hey you! You're from the countryside, right? Tell me... what did the wind sound like in your town?"