{"id":22119,"date":"2019-06-21T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=22119"},"modified":"2019-06-21T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:04:56","slug":"ryan-chiaverini-debut-country-music-video-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2019\/06\/21\/ryan-chiaverini-debut-country-music-video-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Chiaverini to debut \u2018This Is Country' music video today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Ryan Chiaverini<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Windy City Live\"<\/a> co-host Ryan Chiaverini has written and recorded a country music song he's about to share with the world as a tribute to his late mother.<\/p>\n

The music video for \"This Is Country,\" which Chiaverini co-produced and co-edited, will debut on his show today.<\/p>\n

Now in its eighth season, \"Windy City Live\" airs at 1 p.m. Monday through Friday on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7<\/a>\u00a0(rebroadcast at midnight weekdays).<\/p>\n

To record the song and produce the video, Chiaverini assembled a group of Chicago musicians he's known for years in the studio of Jim Peterik, the Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter and founder of the band Survivor. Peterik also appears in the video.<\/p>\n

Chiaverini said he was able to play \"This Is Country\" acoustically for his mother, Edna Avery, before she died of cancer in February 2017. The video ends with a tribute to her and a link to donate to cancer research via Northwestern Memorial Hospital.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"My mom liked to kid me that someday I\u2019d leave TV to become a rock star,\" he said. \"I told her that\u2019s not going to happen, but music is a passion and a great hobby. Getting the chance to produce this song with such accomplished musicians was amazing. And if I can raise money for cancer research to honor my mom, that would be the best feeling in the world for me.\"<\/p>\n

Chiaverini's father, Ed, was a guitarist for The Lively Ones, whose 1963 instrumental hit \"Surf Rider\" was featured in the movie \"Pulp Fiction.\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Country\u201d is the second song and music video Chiaverini has released. In 2014 he recorded a rock tune titled \"Chicago,\" <\/a>to shine a spotlight on suicide and raise funds for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. His younger brother Zach took his own life at age 20 in 2009.<\/p>\n

Chiaverini, a Southern California native, joined ABC 7 as a sports reporter in 2006 from KUSA, the NBC affiliate in Denver. He was promoted to weekend sports anchor in 2009. He was tapped to co-host \"Windy City Live\" with Val Warner in 2011.<\/p>\n

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