Colin Buchanan’s unique career is as successful as it is diverse. He has 9 Golden Guitars to his credit, is an APRA and ARIA award winner, is loved by a generation of children for his role on ABC TV’s iconic Play School, is one of Australia’s most successful picture book authors and internationally acclaimed Christian children’s artist.
When exactly did Dublin-born Colin Buchanan’s creative career begin? His musical heritage can be traced back to those ’70′s Saturday afternoons, when, as an 8 year old, he’s make up impromptu songs as he played in the backyard of his southern Sydney family home. Entertaining has always come naturally – his reputation as class clown was tactfully toned-down by Miss O’Brien in his Year 4 school report when she wrote, “Colin is outspoken…”
“My career has been an adventure in doing what comes naturally,” admits Colin. “I’m so blessed over the last 20 years to have made a career of basically being Colin! I like to say I make a living out of what I used to get in trouble for at school!”
Colin Buchanan was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964. In 1970, just before his 6th birthday, his family arrived in Melbourne to start a new life in Australia. His father found work in Sydney and suburban Peakhurst was home until, at 21 and as a recently graduated primary school teacher, he married his wife, Robyn.