Our lives have been genuinely altered by the pandemic in a variety of ways. While many of us see it as a bad experience, one man and his parrot had a really happy one.
Did any of us ever find ourselves stranded at home, unsure of what to do with our time? This also applied to Frank Maglio Jr. and Gina, his spouse.
Frank enjoyed picking up the guitar, but he wasn’t always able to play it. He took advantage of the pandemic to pick up a guitar and start playing, and that’s when he discovered his parrot’s hidden gift.
Tico, an Amazon parrot they adopted from an elderly British woman, is their pet. They adore owning a parrot, but they were even more enamored of it after learning how much the bird enjoyed listening to the guitar.
Tico decided to start singing along with Frank as he played the guitar one day. It all began with the song “Stairway to Heaven,” which Gina began recording as soon as Tico began to sing.
They made the decision to upload a video to YouTube first, then Facebook. There’s a new channel on YouTube. More than 250,000 people have subscribed to the videos that Frank frequently publishes of him performing a duet with his pet parrot.
He updates his videos on Facebook in addition to YouTube. Not only does everyone like listening to him play the guitar, but they also adore Tico’s ability to sing along.
The comments truly demonstrate how much people value the diversion provided by the birdsong in addition to the sound of them singing. This was something that we all needed during the pandemic, and we still do.
