Gary Pinto

Gary Pinto
Origin	Melbourne, Australia
Genres	Pop , R&B
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, musician
Years active	1990 – present
Associated acts	CDB
Website	garypinto.com

Gary Pinto (born in Melbourne) is an Australian singer, songwriter and musician.

Career

Gary Pinto is an Australian musician of Indian descent.^[1] His parents were from Chennai and members of a minority Christian Indian Catholics. The family immigrated to Australia in 1973 where Gary was born.^[2]

Gary Pinto was a lead singer of the Australian R&B and dance group CDB alongside his brother Brad Pinto,^[2] as well as Andrew De Silva and Danny Williams. Jude Nicholas joined the group when De Silva left. The band formed in 1991 had two albums, Glide with Me and CDB and a number of singles, most notably "Hook Me Up", "Hey Girl (This Is Our Time)", both Top 20 hits for them and "Let's Groove", a cover of an Earth, Wind & Fire song.^[3] The CDB release of the song reached No. 2 on the Australian Singles Chart.

The band split up in 1999 Gary Pinto has moved on to perform as a solo artist. He has since worked co-writing and/or performing with artists including Guy Sebastian, Anthony Callea, Mr Timothy, Christine Anu, Jimmy Barnes, Jade MacRae, Taylor Dayne^[1] and the German pop band Monrose.

In August 2010, he released his solo album Take Back Our World with contributions from Diesel, Dave Darling, Brad Pinto and Meredith Brooks.. The album also contains the bonus track "Saint Mary Mackillop", a song he co-wrote as the 2010 official song for the canonisation of Mary Mackillop.^[4]

As-U-R Music Ministry

Gary Pinto co founded As-U-R Music Ministry with his brother Brad Pinto and manager Tracey Duff a music ministry for youth. It runs workshops in Catholic Primary Schools and concert/testimonial workshops in Catholic Secondary Schools. It also works with Catholic Youth Services (CYS), youth groups, the Catholic Education Office and various parishes to bring Catholic religious music and families back to church.

In popular culture

Pinto co-wrote "Receive the Power" with Guy Sebastian, a song for the 2008 World Youth Day in Sydney. It was performed live during the event by Guy Sebastien and Paulini Curuenavuli. The song was released in two versions, one in English (by Guy Sebastian and Paulini) and an international version verses in Italian (performed by Robert Galea), Spanish (by German Silva) and French (by Amelia Farrugia) and chorus in English. Gary Pinto performed "Receive the Power" and "Behold The Cross" during the same event.^[5]
For the World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, Gary Pinto released a joint EP entitled Firm in the Faith with John Burland^[6]

Discography

Albums

as CDB

1995: Glide with Me
1997: Lifted
2010: The Essential CDB (compilation)

Solo

Title and details	Notes
Take Back Our World Type: Album Released: 2010	Tracklist "Higher" "Superman" "Hey Mister" "Maybe" "Blind" "Everyone's In Love" "Take Back Our World" "Mama Don't Worry" "Beautiful" "Everytime" "Refugee" "Carry Me Home"

As-U-R Music Ministry

2010: As-U-R Volume 1

Collaborations

2011: Firm in the Faith (with John Burland)
- Tracklist:

"Firm in the Faith"
"Walking In the Steps of Jesus"
"Help Me to Walk In Your Peace"
"To Madrid"
"Firm in the Faith" (Acoustic)

References

1 2 CapuchinFriars site: A Multicultural Celebration of Faith – The Gary Pinto Band
1 2 Larry Schwartz (22 January 2010). "Jai Ho! This is Australia Day". The Age. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
↑ Second Hand Songs: "Let's Groove" page
↑ "A Saint in Song". ABC The Rhythm Divine. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
↑ As-U-R website
↑ John Burland official website

External links

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