Marcelo Fromer grew up in São Paulo in a house frequently visited by friends like Branco Mello, whom he met in 1974, in the Hugo Sarmento school.

When he was 15 years old, he discovered The Beatles, Chico Buarque and the Tropicália, and started having guitar lessons with Luiz Tati, of the group Rumo.

In the early 1980s, he would gather new names of the São Paulo scene in his house to discuss their situation, including a minimum value for their fees and the conditions of the venues they would play in.

This passion would be the subject of the song "As Aventuras do Guitarrista Gourmet Atrás da Refeição Ideal", featured at Como Estão Vocês?.

A year before, he released the book Você Tem Fome de Quê?,[1] in which he listed cookery recipes from many restaurants of Brazil, along with tablatures and curiosities of Titãs main hits.

Fromer left unfinished a biography of former football player and TV commentator Walter Casagrande, his personal friend.

On June 11, 2001, a day before the start of the recording of the band's 13th album,A Melhor Banda de Todos os Tempos da Última Semana, Fromer was crossing Europa Avenue in southern São Paulo when a red Honda CG125 motorcycle, driven by Erasmo Castro da Costa Jr., struck him.

Erasmo called an ambulance, but fled the scene when the police arrived, as his driving license was no longer valid.