Live Music - Colin Allured

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I was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana October 15th, 1980. My father (Ross Allured) was, and is, a hard-working musician and his father (Don Allured) was, too, before he passed. My mother Charlotte is a sweet bodhisattva angel from compassion's heaven and I strive to be more like her every day.
My first words to say as a baby were ""Touchdown!"" and ""Tiger"". There were times that my dream was to be the quarterback for the LSU Tigers but mostly I knew I wanted to be a musician and singer. I love throwing and catching the football but I dislike being tackled. When I was nine I begged my Dad to teach me the guitar and he finally relented. He taught me a Bach Prelude by shapes, the blues scale, and all my chords. That fall he sent me to Eric Sylvester at Lake Charles Music to learn how to read. Eric was a versatile teacher and guitarist. He taught me a lot of the basics of classical guitar, blues, rock, and jazz. I wrote songs since before I could play guitar, but now that I could read and write music, and fancied myself a composer, I wrote out little guitar and choral pieces.