My name is Sam Allen, I was born on 8th December 1990, a date anyone with a keen interest in music would be able to explain the significance of such a date, it was the 10th anniversary of the death of John Lennon, the greatest musician and songwriter of all time, that may just be my opinion but anyone with a different opinion on it is wrong!!!.
My Dad was a well known Irish country music star called Dave Allen throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s. However, I wouldn't YouTube him unless you wanted to hear Irish folk/country songs such as the hills of Donegal or Galway girl. Nevertheless, he was in a music group that played in places all over the world, from Dublin to London to New York and even further afield but more importantly, he introduced me to music, teaching me guitar from when I was old enough to be able to hold one.
Unlike some Irish families, ours was quite small, I had one older brother kevin, who was 5 years my senior and Denise, my older sister was a little shy of 2 years older than me, and we come from a small town right in the middle of Ireland called Moate.
I was the only one out of the 3 of us who developed Dad's interest in music, with Kevin focusing more on his love for soccer and Denise, well, Denise concentrated most of her time on her love for shopping.
Because of this really, as I was growing up, my Dad would often bring me with him when he was doing a show close to home, although I wasn't a fan of the genre of music he played, there was something about a live show, with fans of you singing back at you really got my attention even from such a young age and I knew that's what I wanted to be when I grew up.
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FanficSam Allen is a musician, born into a musical family in the middle of Ireland but as he finds out throughout his teens and early twenties getting out of Ireland and developing your music talent isn't always as easy as you might think, even when you t...
