Heartbreakers Orchestra was started in 1987, in São Paulo, by George Freire and Guga Stroeter. Since then, they have been performing concerts in theaters, events and recording albums with salsa, samba and jazz reportoire. The Orchestra has three different formats: HB Big Band (with 13 or 14 musicians), HB Combo (with 7 or 8 musicians), and HB Tronix (Guga, a vocalist, a DJ and a guest instrumentalist).