Collo

To say that Collo's musical journey has been a long one would be an understatement. Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia; it has taken him until his mid-50's to develop both the belief and sufficient capability to now be comfortable sharing his music with the world-at-large. With the release of his first EP "The Bluff" in September 2019, Collo has provided a taste of where he is now at with his music, which has strong rock origins; but is drawing in elements extending across the decades from the 1980's to today, with a broader brush of styles including Indie and Alternative rock.

Collo's musical journey started when he was given an acoustic guitar as a Christmas present when he was 8 years old. He was trained in classic guitar but spent most of his time playing the contemporary music of the day. Major early influences included AC/DC, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd and David Bowie. At school he was forced to give up the guitar to learn the trombone, meaning further development on the guitar was self-taught.

As the 70's moved into the 80's he was listening to many of the great Australian bands of the day such as The Angels, Australian Crawl, Cold Chisel, The Sunnyboys INXS and the Divinyls; whilst testing his family's patience with long and loud repeat plays of everything by Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi and Dire Straits. During this period he began song writing in earnest, and wrote/co-wrote almost 50 songs - mostly with a strong rock and heavy rock style.

After leaving Melbourne for London, with increasing work and family commitments; playing and creating music took a back seat - and it remained in the back seat until late 2017 when he finally decided to commit to bringing his music back to life.

Collo undertook courses and study to be able to take advantage of all of the wonderful developments in music production and mastering available to the modern songwriter and producer, and with this renewed commitment came a return to creativity, which both saw Collo update and enhance many of the songs written in the 1980's and also compose a number of new works.

He has now released and 4 EPs and over 15 singles, collaborating with vocalists from around the world.

He has also developed a number of Pop tracks (typically with an EDM style) that have been exclusively produced for submitting in response to Taxi opportunities for unreleased tracks.

His music is available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, SoundCloud, Jango Digital radio and many other digital platforms and he has released 10 music videos - which are available to view on his YouTube channel, Collo Music.