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Gio's music
Gio listened to a lot of music since his early childhood and with
his little sisters sang and danced perfectly imitating Michael Jakson.
In the last few months before his birth to heaven, this relationship
with the music intensified: he wanted to listen to various songs, choosing them with great care, and see music videos, and he started playing the guitar, given by a friend benefactress, following by ear
the music therapist, explained what the essence of those songs was and where did they come from… to us who often did not understand.
"We call this guitar 'Gio's Guitar'. We all use it (at the MSKCC hospital), with children but also with adults. This guitar has already done great works. And it always makes me think of Giovannimaria."
(Alessandro music therapist at MSKCC in NY)
Gio with Alessandro, music therapist
at MSKCC, sang and listened
to the music by ear.
When the Beatles song 'Let it be' was first sung to Gio, he asked if it was a song about Mary for real. He listened to the explanation that was given
to him and replied that Mary did not appear as they said, even if she always came when she was called in need.
Then he asked how they translated
'Let it be', and when they said "let it go or leave it" he said: "then it is not a song about Mary, because she never lets it go". Then he sang it often, having chosen it to mean "so be it, Amen".
Among the songs he wanted to hear more often there was one composed by father Luca M. Zecchetto:
"C'è qui un ragazzo" (There is a boy here), which is in the album e20di stelle sung by the choir of 'Le Matite Colorate'.
On the day of Gio's birth into heaven,
on the feast of Corpus Domini, the Word proclaimed it was the one of this beautiful composition.