Phil Collins facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Phil Collins
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Philip David Charles Collins
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| Years active | 1968–2011, 2015–present |
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| Children | 5, including Joely Collins, Simon Collins, and Lily Collins |
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Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, songwriter, actor and singer. He was born in Chiswick, Hounslow, Middlesex. He was the drummer and singer of the band Genesis.
He is very well known for his career away from the band, as a solo artist. His most well known album is No Jacket Required, which has sold over ten million copies in the United States.
Collins starred in the movie Buster (1988). His daughter Lily Collins is a famous actress.
Collins won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "You'll Be in My Heart". That song was in the movie Tarzan.
Collins's discography includes eight studio albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an estimated 150 million worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists. He is one of only two recording artists, along with Paul McCartney, who have sold over 100 million records worldwide both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band. He has won eight Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards—winning Best British Male three times—two Golden Globe Awards, one Academy Award, and a Disney Legend Award. He has received six Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the International Achievement Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2012, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Family
Collins was married to Andrea Bertorelli from 1975 to 1980. They met as 11-year-old students in a London drama class and later dated, but her family moved to Canada when she was 18. The two reconnected when Genesis performed in Vancouver, and they married in England when both were 24. They have a son, Simon Collins, born in 1976, who became the vocalist and drummer of the progressive rock band Sound of Contact. Collins adopted Bertorelli's daughter Joely, who became an actress and film producer.
Collins met his second wife, American Jill Tavelman, in 1980. They were married from 1984 to 1996. They had one daughter, Lily Collins, born in 1989.
Collins married his third wife, Orianne Cevey, a Swiss national, in 1999. They have two sons, Nicholas and Matthew. They bought Sir Jackie Stewart's former house located in Begnins, Switzerland, overlooking Lake Geneva. They divorced in 2008. Collins continued to live in Switzerland at the time, residing in Féchy, while he also maintained homes in New York City and Dersingham, Norfolk.
In 2015, Collins moved to Miami to be closer to his family, living in a separate home previously owned by Jennifer Lopez. In January 2016, Collins said he had reunited with Cevey and they were living together in the house he had bought in Miami.
Collins’ brother Clive is a noted cartoonist. Phil appeared at his brother's investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2012 when he was awarded an MBE for services to art.
Discography
Solo albums
- Face Value (1981)
- Hello, I Must Be Going! (1982)
- No Jacket Required (1985)
- ...But Seriously (1989)
- Both Sides (1993)
- Dance into the Light (1996)
- Testify (2002)
- Going Back (2010)
Images for kids
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Genesis bandmate Mike Rutherford on bass with Collins on drums, performing in Toronto, 3 June 1977
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Collins performing in 1981.
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On 13 July 1985 Collins played at Live Aid at the old Wembley Stadium (exterior pictured) in London, before taking a transatlantic Concorde flight to perform at the Philadelphia leg of the event later that day
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Collins (middle) with his two Genesis bandmates, Tony Banks (left) and Mike Rutherford (right) in 1991. Collins toured with Genesis the following year, his last with the band until 2007
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Collins performing at the Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, Italy, 1996)
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Collins' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was awarded to the musician for his contribution to recording. It is located at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard
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Collins performing with Genesis at the Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., 2007
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Collins on stage at the Royal Albert Hall, London on 7 June 2017
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Collins performing to 65,000 at Hyde Park, London on 30 June 2017. Music critic Neil McCormick wrote, “He could barely walk but Phil Collins still knocked it out of Hyde Park“.
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Collins has used Gretsch drums since 1983.
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Collins singing "Land of Confusion" at Knebworth, England in 1992. The song's music video features caricature puppets by the British television show Spitting Image. After Collins saw a caricatured version of himself on the show, he commissioned the show's creators, Peter Fluck and Roger Law, to create puppets of Genesis, as well as all the characters in the video.
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