Videos of Tico the parrot singing have been captured by its owner Frank Maglio, who has been uploading them to YouTube since April.
While the parrot doesn’t sing any of the actual words of the songs it “covers”, its ability to accurately replicate each track’s vocal melody has earned Tico and the guitar-playing Maglio a small slice of internet fame.
Meet Tico the parrot, the internet’s new favourite rock star. (loudersound.com) A beautiful bird with a gift for singing along to its owner Frank Maglio’s covers of classic songs by Led Zeppelin, Guns N’ Roses, The Beatles, Van Halen and more, Tico has become an online sensation.
Maglio has been posting videos of his gifted feathered friend online since April but the duo’s YouTube channel received a nice traffic boost when former basketball star Rex Chapman shared their fabulous version of Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven with his 1.1 million Twitter followers on January 18, leading to the clip receiving more than three million views.
“One day I was playing guitar back in March, during the second week of lockdown,” he said. “And Tico started screaming like he wanted attention, so instead of throwing the towel in, I grabbed my guitar … and sat down by him and started playing, and I was like, ‘I think he’s singing.’”
