Singer Billy Gilman and MDA’s Luke Christie to Welcome ERA
Brokers
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 10, 2006 – Two young men representing the Muscular
Dystrophy Association will appear at the ERA International Business Conference
in San Francisco on Feb. 14 to update the brokers on the voluntary health
organization’s programs.
Award-winning recording artist and MDA National
Youth Chairman Billy Gilman, 17, will sing and introduce the family of MDA National Goodwill Ambassador Luke Christie, 12, at the opening
session of the conference at the Moscone Convention Center.
One of the world's leading residential franchise brokerage networks, ERA Real
Estate is a longtime MDA sponsor and has raised more than $29 million for the
Association over the past 29 years.
Returning from Nashville, where he’s working on his sixth album, Gilman
will perform songs from his 2005 album, “Everything and More.”
“I’m excited to meet the ERA brokers and thank them for all they do
for MDA,” Gilman said. “They help keep MDA on the road to wiping
out neuromuscular diseases altogether.”
Gilman, who won the New Music Weekly Magazine award for Country Single of the
Year 2005 for the title song from “Everything and More,” is serving
his fourth year as MDA National Youth Chairman. He spearheads the efforts of
thousands of teens and young adults who volunteer for MDA.
The Christie family, of Due West, S.C., are traveling the country to represent
families served by MDA and affected by neuromuscular disorders. Luke,
who’s a seventh-grader at Cherokee Trail Elementary in Donalds, has type 2 spinal muscular atrophy and uses a power wheelchair for
mobility.
MDA is working to defeat more than 40 neuromuscular diseases through programs of worldwide research,
comprehensive services, and far-reaching professional and public health
education.
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