Giorgio Pretti, World Renowned Singer-Songwriter Gets Chance to Pay Back Shriners... Through Music

LOS ANGELES (Luck Media & Marketing) - When Giorgio Pretti exclaims that he's the "luckiest guy in the world," he's not simply uttering a typical musical cliche - the multi-talented, world-renowned singer, songwriter and guitarist is reflecting on his extraordinary life as a living and breathing medical miracle.

Forty some years after the best doctors in his native Brazil told him his polio would keep him from ever walking again, Pretti - though using crutches since electing to amputate his right leg in 1993 - is still hitting festival stages, singing and jamming on his guitar with unerring confidence. He's performed before thousands onstage and on television everywhere from Russia to New Orleans, but his 20 minutes onstage at the Temecula Jazz Festival April 30 on behalf of Shriners Hospitals for Children may be his most significant ever.
Pretti will perform songs from his newly released independent recording "Cuidado Mano."

After the original grim diagnosis about his never walking again, Pretti's mother Ruth brought the seven year old boy from their home in Rio de Janeiro to seek free orthopedic treatment at the Shriners Hospital in Los Angeles. Two years later, the family moved to L.A. permanently, and Pretti practically lived at the facility until the age of 16.

Confined to bed rest due to various orthopedic surgeries, he had lots of time to listen to the great rock albums he received as gifts, and became inspired by a rich variety of 60's music - The Temptations, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. Today these influences are heard in Pretti's impressive vocal delivery and the variety and rhythmic inflections on the songs that comprise his amazing Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and Italian language repertoires.

In 1995, he started an annual musical charity event at the Hollywood Roosevelt (later the Universal Hilton) to raise funds for The Sister Dulce Foundation, a Brazilian Orphanage. He has since adopted two sons from a Brazilian orphanage, Jackie and Louie, and has sponsored two more back in his native country through the Christian Fund.
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