Phil Collins Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Phil Collins Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Philip David Charles Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English

drummer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer,

and actor, best known as the drummer/singer of the rock band Genesis

and for his solo career. Between 1982 and 1990, Collins scored three

UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work

with Genesis, his work with other artists, as well as his solo career

is totalled, he had more US Top 40 singles than any other artist

during the 1980s. His most successful singles from the period include

"In the Air Tonight", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)", "One

More Night", "Sussudio", "Two Hearts", "A Groovy Kind of Love"

(featured in the film Buster), "I Wish It Would Rain Down", and

"Another Day in Paradise".Born and raised in west London, Collins

played drums from the age of five and completed drama school training,

which secured him various roles as a child actor. He then pursued a

music career, joining Genesis in 1970 as their drummer and becoming

lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins

began a solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital

breakdown and love of soul music, releasing a series of successful

albums, including Face Value (1981), No Jacket Required (1985), and

...But Seriously (1989). Collins became "one of the most successful

pop and adult contemporary singers of the '80s and beyond". He also

became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his

recordings. In 1996, Collins left Genesis to focus on solo work; this

included writing songs for Disney’s Tarzan (1999) for which he

received an Oscar for Best Original Song for “You'll Be in My

Heart†. He rejoined Genesis for their Turn It On Again Tour in 2007.

Following a five-year retirement to focus on his family life, Collins

released an autobiography in 2016 and completed his Not Dead Yet Tour

in 2019.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 three recording artists, along with Paul McCartney

and Michael Jackson, who have sold over 100 million records worldwide

both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band. He

has received eight Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards (winning Best

British Male Artist three times), two Golden Globe Awards, one Academy

Award, and a Disney Legend Award. He was awarded 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 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as

a member of Genesis in 2010. He has also been recognised by music

publications with induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in

2012, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.
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