Gary Allan Herzberg

Gary Allan, born Gary Allan Herzberg on December 5, 1967 raised in La Mirada, California. To ensure that the family would focus on music, Allan's mother insisted that the family's guitars would aways remain visible in the home. At age thirteen, Allan began playing in honky tonks with his father. Two years later, he was offered his first recording contract, from A & M Records, but rejected the deal. His parents wanted him to finish his education and his father felt that Allan had yet to develop his own distinctive style.