Career Highlights:
Rocco Fiorentino
12 years
Old
Singing since the age of 6
Playing the piano since the age of 4
Rocco may just be 12 years of age, but he has built an impressive list
of awards, ambassador positions (representing different charities), and
performance events in his young life. Here are some of the highlights:
Awards and Honors:
• Helen Keller Award – November 2008
• Build-A-Bear Huggable Hero Award – July
2008
• FOX TV in Philadelphia sends Rocco to Los
Angeles for American Idol Finals – May
2008
• Goodwill Industries’ Helms Award to The
Fiorentino Family – April 2008
• Rocco Protests at NJ State Assembly about
budget cuts to NJ Commission for the Blind
and Visually Impaired, which resulted in
Rocco saving 50 jobs (out of 54, and the
other four were retiring.)
• Volvo for Life Award – Finalist – January,
2008
o Rocco won $10,000 for The Little
Rock
Foundation
• Freedom Medal Award – Camden County -
- 2008
• Great Friend to Kids Award, Young
Achiever Division
Please Touch Museum - November, 2007
Philadelphia, PA
• Commendation for Philanthropy and Love
of Human Kind - 2007
Township of Voorhees, NJ
• 76’ers Hometown Hero - 2005
Spirit of Alex Scott Lemonade Award
• Library for The Blind and Handicapped -
2005
Braille Literacy Leader
• Camden County Proclamation - 2005
• March Of Dimes - 2005
Certificate of Appreciation
Ambassador:
• The Little Rock Foundation, named for
Rocco
• Variety Club Children’s Charity
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• March of Dimes
Performance Venues and Events:
• Birdland Jazz Club, New York City
• NBC Network – “Today Show”
• Iridium Jazz Club, New York City
• Cosmopolitan Jazz Club, New Hope
• Philadelphia Phillies
• Philadelphia 76’ers
• Camden River Sharks
• Philadelphia Park
• Wildwood Amphitheater
• Burlington County Amphitheater
• Rose Tree Park Amphitheater
• Commerce Bank Performing Arts Center
• Please Touch Museum
• Garden State Discovery Museum
• Sesame Place
• National Constitution Center
• Performing for Governor Edward G.
Rendell, PA
• Variety, The Children’s Charity
• March of Dimes
• Unico National
• Harrah’s Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, NJ
• NIA-PAC National Italian Political Action
Committee
• Library for the Blind and Handicapped,
Trenton, NJ
• USO Troops
• The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
