Phil Collins

Quick Facts

Full Name	Phil Collins
Occupation	Rock Singer
Date Of Birth	Jan 30, 1951(1951-01-30)
Age	73
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

Phil Collins Biography

Phil Collins is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on January 30, 1951 in London, England, United Kingdom. Grammy Award-winning musician who gained fame as the lead singer and drummer of the progressive rock band Genesis and has sold over 100 million albums.

He appeared as an extra in the music video for “A Hard Day’s Night,” which featured Paul McCartney and the other members of The Beatles.

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”.

Collins began professional acting lessons at 14 at the Barbara Speake Stage School, a fee-paying but non-selective independent school in East Acton whose talent agency had been established by his mother. His first major role arrived in 1964 as the Artful Dodger in two West End runs of the musical Oliver!. His mother recalled that his voice broke and gave way during a performance and he had to speak his lines for the rest of the show. Collins was an extra in the Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night (1964) among the screaming teenagers during the television concert sequence. This was followed by a role in Calamity the Cow (1967), produced by the Children’s Film Foundation. After falling out with the director, Collins decided to quit acting. He was to appear in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) as one of the children who storm the castle, but his scene was cut. Collins auditioned for the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1968) but the role went to Leonard Whiting.

He married Andrea Collins on September 27, 1975 and, after their divorce, he married Jill Tavelman on August 4, 1984. He married Orianne Cevey on July 24,

1999. He has three sons named Matthew, Nicholas and Simon and two daughters named Lily and Joely.

Phil Collins Net Worth

Phil Collins is one of the richest Rock Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Phil Collins 's net worth $300 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At age five, he began playing the drums while watching television and listening to the radio.

He released more top forty hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 in the 1980s than any of his contemporaries, and won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance for his single “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now).”

Philip David Charles Collins was born on 30 January 1951 in Chiswick, Middlesex, now part of the London Borough of Hounslow. His father, Greville Philip Austin Collins (1907–1972), was an insurance agent and his mother, Winifred June Collins (née Strange, 1913–2011), worked as a theatrical agent. His sister Carole competed as a professional ice skater and his older brother Clive is a noted cartoonist.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Phil Collins height 5 feet 6 inches Phil weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Phil Collins Dating?

According to our records, Phil Collins married to Orianne Cevey , Jill Tavelman , Andrea Bertorelli. As of December 1, 2023, Phil Collins’s is not dating anyone.

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Collins has been married and divorced three times. From 1975 to 1980, he was married to Canadian-born Andrea Bertorelli. They met as 11-year-old students in a London drama class and reconnected when Genesis performed in Vancouver. They married in England when both were 24. Collins adopted Bertorelli’s daughter Joely (b. 1972), who became an actress and film producer. They had one son, Simon Collins (b. 1976), who is the former vocalist and drummer of the progressive rock band Sound of Contact. In 2016, Bertorelli took legal action against Collins pertaining to his account of their relationship in his autobiography.

Facts & Trivia

Phil Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Phil Collins celebrates birthday on January 30 of every year.

In August 1975, following The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour, Gabriel left Genesis. The band placed an advert for a replacement in Melody Maker and received around 400 replies. After a lengthy auditioning process, during which he sang backup vocals for applicants, Collins became the band’s lead vocalist during the recording of their album A Trick of the Tail. The album was a commercial and critical success, reaching number 3 in the UK charts and 31 in the US; Rolling Stone wrote that Genesis had managed to turn the possible catastrophe of Gabriel’s departure into their first broad-based American success.” For the album’s 1976 tour, Collins accepted an offer from former Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford to play drums while Collins sang vocals. Collins played percussion on the album Johnny the Fox by Thin Lizzy.

Why did Phil Collins go deaf?

According to Rolling Stone, Collins medical issues date back to 2000 when he lost almost all hearing in his left ear. The magazine says the drumming he did on the 2007 Genesis reunion tour led to a dislocated vertebra in his neck that caused nerve damage in his hands , ultimately leaving him unable to play the drums.

Did Phil Collins lose his voice?

The good news is Collins sounds the same What we discovered was that he hadn’t lost his voice or compelling stage presence. Once back into the zone of singing songs like “In the Air Tonight”, everyone found out he could have been performing all along.

How much is Phil Collins worth?

In 2021, Celebrity Net Worth recorded Phil Collins has a net worth of $300million (£198m). He is one of three, along with Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney, to sell more than a 100million albums. Phil has also received seven Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Oscar.

Is Ozzy Osbourne deaf?

Osbourne opened up to the Sunday Times of London about his condition: “I suffer from permanent tinnitus . . . which means I’ve got this constant ringing in my ears, which has also made me somewhat deaf (or ‘conveniently deaf,’ as Sharon [Osbourne, his wife] calls it). It’s like this Whee! noise in my head all the time.

Who is the most famous deaf person?

Helen Keller was a remarkable American educator, disability activist and author. She is the most famous DeafBlind person in history. In 1882, Keller was 18 months old and fell ill with an acute illness which caused her to become deaf, blind and mute.