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Born in Brazil, Marcelo Kayath started to learn the guitar at 13 with Leo Soares, and later was a pupil of Jodacil Damaceno and Turibio Santos. At 16 he won the Segovia Prize at the Villa-Lobos International Competition in Rio de Janeiro and two years later he became the first guitarist to win the Young Concert Artists Competition, the Brazilian equivalent of the BBC Young Musician of the Year.
In 1984 he became the first and only musician to win what were, then, the two major international competitions in the same year, the Toronto International Competition and the Radio France Competition in Paris. He started touring Europe and North America to great public and critical acclaim.
During that period he made several recordings for companies such as Hyperion, MCA Classics and Pickwick. Simultaneously, he graduated as an electronic engineer at the Rio de Janeiro Federal University. He halted his solo career to pursue an MBA at Stanford Business School.
