AT THE INTERSECTION OF
LIFE, SONG, AND GOD //
A CONVERSATION WITH
SEAN CURRAN
By Alexander MacDougall
Note: Worshiper Sean Curran is a musician, There were a lot of other spiritual reasons, but enamored with the whole thing, it was like my
songwriter, teacher. I just loved classic rock, and guitar was such a first touch point, seeing people my age holding
Originally from central Florida, he now resides driving force for that era and that genre and I just that thing. I just kept inching closer and closer
in Atlanta, GA, leading worship at Passion City thought it spoke. I rarely knew what was going to it until I was basically on top of the other kids.
Church and at Passion Conferences, among on lyrically, and I grew up in a very conservative So the woman ends her session, and she could
other opportunities. A “classic rocker”, he household so there was plenty of classic rock tell that I was so drawn to this, so she called
ardently encourages worship leaders to “go I wasn’t allowed to listen to (laughs). But I me over and put a guitar in my hands. I don’t
deeper”. As Sean states, “You can’t lead people was moved by just how much the guitar sung know how long I sat there, but I was just really
somewhere that you haven’t been”. His new to me. That was probably my introduction to consumed with it and taken up with just holding
project, Bigger Than I Thought, will release in music in many ways, because we weren’t really it and messing with it. Then I sort of came to
late June. I was extremely fortunate to recently a musical family, we didn’t play instruments, we and saw the woman talking to my Mom. So
visit with Sean and capture his thoughts on a had more of a sports thing happening, kind of that was like, “Wow, there’s something about
variety of subjects. a classic American thing, but we definitely were this that I feel at home in”. I didn’t know this at
a church family. the time, but I think it was God’s way of helping
worship
leader,
and
[WM] Who were your earliest musical
influences?
me hear His voice. It became a massive part of
I remember really early on my Mom took us my spiritual journey, almost like learning to pray
kids to this park, I must have been in middle while sitting in my room trying to figure out this
[Sean Curran] My Dad was a pretty big fan school, and there was this old woman teaching instrument, but also as a young person figuring
of classic rock, that’s the main reason I got into guitar lessons to a bunch of kids sitting on the out my life and talking to God about it.
guitar I think, which was my first instrument. ground. They were just learning guitar but I was
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June 2019
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