Profile
Alan B. Rego comes from a musical family of Defence Officers and teachers and was onstage singing by the age of 3. He went through a variety of jobs ranging from running his own poultry farm to working as a bookkeeper, sold fire extinguishers and industrial safety equipment and door to door sales, turned professional musician at the age of 17 with his first band, the STYLUS, and is now a famous soloist and entertainer.
He conducted lecture-demonstrations on Geography and Western music for the Times of Indias NIE Programme from 1988 till 2004.
With a little push from a friend, he composed background music and directed plays for schools involving casts of up to 800 children at a time (his scripts and background scores are currently under editing for publication).
On the instrumental front, he mastered the rhythm guitar and blues harp and taught more than 3000 students over the course of 25 odd years, besides becoming fluent on keyboards, flutes, recorder and melodeon, harmonicas, panflutes, mandolin, banjitar, dhumroo, bongos, tambourine, cabash, maracas, castanets, Q-chord, pepa and shofar.
Loves nature and working with children best of all-hence his stage name Little brave Leatherfeather. Honed his craft in this direction in Sunday School and the Creative Foundation, Bangalore and as a result produced 4 albums of childrens songs and one for adults so far, with others in the development stages. Prefers acoustic music, and skill over speed.
Is a voracious reader with eclectic tastes ranging from comics (Calvin and Hobbes is his favourite) to post-Apocalyptic science fiction and theology.
His backup band of highly experienced and tested musicians is called ALCHEMY. He is a much in demand entertainer for all kinds of celebrations, particularly kids and family parties and is now working on stage shows.
His hobby is Joinery and he specializes in dovetail mortise jointing through which he has built his own furniture and flight cases.
Blows off steam by long-distance driving- he is a veteran of the Indian East Coast Highway up to Shillong and back (2010), and his personal motto is Righteousness and Truth.