"Brazilian snowboarder Pat Burgener feels complete when he combines his love of the halfpipe with his passion for music. The 31-year-old competed for Switzerland, where he was born and raised, in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games as well as the 2022 Beijing Olympics. His mother was born in Lebanon but grew up in Brazil, and Burgener has wanted to join their squad since the country hosted the all-Brazil FIFA Club World Championship in 2000."
"He was later diagnosed with ADHD and said music helped him focus. I realized that a big part of society doesn't want you to do too many things because we're kind of focused on trying to make one thing really well, which for some people works, he told The Associated Press before Tuesday's show. But for me, like, it's what I need. I felt it. It was like a balance of life between snowboarding, music."
Pat Burgener is a 31-year-old snowboarder born and raised in Switzerland who competed in the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics. His mother was born in Lebanon and raised in Brazil, and Burgener obtained Brazilian representation this year. He performed at Brazil House in Milan, combining guitar, harmonica and drum pedals while around 50 people danced and clapped. Burgener is a multi-instrumentalist who plays piano, guitar, ukulele, harmonica, trumpet, flute and the four-string cavaquinho. He was diagnosed with ADHD and uses music to focus. He splits his year between roughly 80 live shows from April to December and the snowboard season, and has released recorded songs including a Portuguese single.
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