Gary Pinto is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n singer

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

, songwriter and musician.

Career

Gary Pinto is an Australian musician of Indian descent. His parents were from Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

 and members of a minority Christian Indian Catholics. The family immigrated to Australia in 1973 where Gary was born.

Gary Pinto was a lead singer of the Australian R&B and dance group CDB

CDB (band)

CDB is an Australian R&B and dance group that started out in the 1990s, best known for their cover of Earth, Wind & Fire's "Let's Groove". Its original members were brothers Gary Pinto and Brad Pinto, as well as Andrew De Silva and Danny Williams...

 alongside his brother Brad Pinto, 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

Glide with Me

Glided with Me is an album by Australian R&B and dance group CDB released in 1995 on Sony Music and their debut album. It peaked at #6 in the Australia charts as well as #12 on the New Zealand albums charts...

and CDB

Lifted (CDB album)

Lifted is an album by Australian R&B and dance group CDB released in 1997. It debuted and peaked at No. 45 on the Australia charts.-Track listing:#"Good Times"#"Down For Love"#"So Badd"#"Back Then"#"Hypnotic"#"Let it Whip"#"Never Thought"...

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

Let's Groove

"Let's Groove" is a 1981 song from the album Raise! by the R&B act Earth, Wind & Fire. The song peaked at #3 in the U.S. and in the UK. It also spent eight weeks at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in late-1981/early-1982 and was the second R&B song of 1982 on the year end charts...

", a cover of an Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of...

 song. The CDB release of the song reached #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 worked co-writing and/or performing with artists including Guy Sebastian

Guy Sebastian

Guy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. He is currently a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi platinum albums, including a number-one and...

, Anthony Callea

Anthony Callea

Anthony Cosmo Callea is an Australian singer-songwriter who rose to prominence in the 2004 season of Australian Idol when he became runner up. He was signed to Sony Music Australia until 2009 and is now an independent artist...

, Mr Timothy, Christine Anu

Christine Anu

-Early life:Anu was born in Cairns, Queensland to a Torres Strait Islander mother from Saibai and Mabuiag Islands.-Career:Anu began performing as a dancer and later went on to sing back-up vocals for The Rainmakers, which included Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band. Her first recording was in 1993...

, Jimmy Barnes

Jimmy Barnes

James Dixon Swan , better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at...

, Jade MacRae

Jade MacRae

Jade MacRae is an Australian R&B/Soul singer and the daughter of two professional New Zealand musicians living in the UK. Her debut single "You Make Me Weak" debuted in the top 50 of the Australian singles charts in November 2004...

, Taylor Dayne

Taylor Dayne

Taylor Dayne was born Leslie Wunderman on March 7, 1962 before later adopting her current stage name. She is an American pop vocalist, songwriter, and dance artist. Overall, she has had eighteen individual hit songs reach the top ten in Billboard magazine...

 and the German pop band Monrose

Monrose

Monrose was a German pop band, first established in November 2006. Formed on the fifth installment of the German adaption of the international television talent show Popstars on the ProSieben network, the trio consisted of singers and songwriters Mandy Capristo, Senna Guemmour, and Bahar...

.

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

Mary MacKillop

Mary Helen MacKillop , also known as Saint Mary of the Cross, was an Australian Roman Catholic nun who, together with Father Julian Tenison Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart and a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australasia with an emphasis on...

.

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
  Receive the Power
  Receive the Power is a Gospel song written by Guy Sebastian and Gary Pinto, and performed by Guy Sebastian and Paulini chosen in May 2007 as the official anthem for the Roman Catholic Church's XXIII World Youth Day held in Sydney in 2008....
  
  " with Guy Sebastian
  Guy Sebastian
  Guy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. He is currently a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi platinum albums, including a number-one and...
  
  , a song for the 2008 World Youth Day
  World Youth Day 2008
  The 23rd World Youth Day 2008 was a Catholic youth festival that started on 15 July and continued until 20 July 2008 in Sydney, Australia. It was the first World Youth Day held in Australia and the first World Youth Day in Oceania. This meeting was decided by Pope Benedict XVI, during the Cologne...
  
   in Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
  , Australia. 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.
• For the World Youth Day 2011
  World Youth Day 2011
  World Youth Day 2011 was the 2011 occurrence of World Youth Day, a Catholic event held from August 16-21, 2011 in Madrid, Spain focused on youth...
  
   in Madrid, Gary Pinto released a joint EP entitled Firm in the Faith with John Burland

Albums

as CDB

• 1995: Glide with Me
  Glide with Me
  Glided with Me is an album by Australian R&B and dance group CDB released in 1995 on Sony Music and their debut album. It peaked at #6 in the Australia charts as well as #12 on the New Zealand albums charts...
  
  
• 1997: Lifted
  Lifted (CDB album)
  Lifted is an album by Australian R&B and dance group CDB released in 1997. It debuted and peaked at No. 45 on the Australia charts.-Track listing:#"Good Times"#"Down For Love"#"So Badd"#"Back Then"#"Hypnotic"#"Let it Whip"#"Never Thought"...
  
  
• 2010: The Essential CDB (compilation)

Solo

• 2010: Take Back Our World
  • Tracklist:

1. "Higher"
2. "Superman"
3. "Hey Mister"
4. "Maybe"
5. "Blind"
6. "Everyone's In Love"
7. "Take Back Our World"
8. "Mama Don't Worry"
9. "Beautiful"
10. "Everytime"
11. "Refugee"
12. "Carry Me Home"

As-U-R Music Ministry

• 2010: As-U-R Volume 1

Collaborations

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

1. "Firm in the Faith"
2. "Walking In the Steps of Jesus"
3. "Help Me to Walk In Your Peace"
4. "To Madrid"
5. "Firm in the Faith" (Acoustic)

External links

• Gary Pinto official website
• Gary Pinto Facebook
• Gary Pinto Twitter
• As-U-R Music Industry official website