Phil Collins

  Philip David Charles Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer, drummer and songwriter. He is also a record producer and actor. He was the drummer and lead singer of the group Genesis and has also a career as a solo artist. Collins was an artist on his own who had seven US top-ten singles as well as three UK top 40 hits between 1982 between 1982 and 1990. If his time with Genesis, his work with other artists and also his own career is totalled and he scored the most US top 40 singles than anyone else during the 1980s. [8] His most successful songs from that period comprise "In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take A Look at Me Now)", "One More Night", and "Another Day in Paradise"Born and raised in West London, Collins played drums at the age of 5 and completed drama school training, which secured him various roles as a child actor, including his first big part at the age of 13 in the role of Artful Dodger in the West End musical Oliver!. He then pursued a music career and joined Genesis in 1970 as their drummer. He then becoming the lead singer in 1975, following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins began a successful solo career in the 1980s after being influenced by his divorce and love of soul music, releasing the albums Face Value (1981), Hello I Must Be Going (1982) and No Jacket Required (1985) and ...But Really (1989). Collins became, in the words of AllMusic, "one of the most successful adult and pop contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond". His distinctive gated reverb drum sound was also the mainstay of his records. He was also the sole performing artist in both Live Aid concerts in 1985. He was also back in acting, playing in Miami Vice (1985) and later in Buster (1988). Collins was forced to leave Genesis in 1996 to concentrate on his solo work. He composed songs for Disney's Tarzan (1999) which for which he won an Oscar for Best Original Song. He rejoined Genesis to perform on their Turn It On Again Tour in 2007. After a retirement of five years, Collins published an autobiography in 2016 to look back on his family. He also concluded the Not Dead Yet Tour in 2019. Then, he returned to Genesis in 2020 for a second reunion tour, which will end in March 2022.