Simon Collins

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Simon Collins at a concert with Sound of Contact in 2013

Simon Collins (* 14. September 1976 in Hammersmith , London ) is a Canadian rock / pop - singer , drummer and composer . He is the first son of the musician Phil Collins .

biography

At the age of five, Collins learned to play drums with the help of his father . Due to the separation of his parents, he moved with his mother to Canada , to the city of Vancouver three years later . There he not only refined his percussion skills , but also learned composing and singing. In the following years he played in stylistically different bands.

In 1999 he appeared in the TV documentary Summer Love on Canadian television. In the same year, the German major label Warner Music signed him, which prompted him to move to Germany. With his first two singles Pride and Shine Through he reached the top 100 of the German single charts . He wrote the latter single with Howard Jones . On the first single Pride , father Phil Collins took over the backing vocals.

The debut album All of Who You Are , on which both single hits are located, sold more than 100,000 copies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The third single Money Maker flopped.

In 2002, Simon Collins left Warner Music to single-handedly produce his second album. For this he founded his own production company in Frankfurt am Main with the German producer and manager Andre Fedorow . Time for Truth was the name of the second album and was only released in Canada and North America via Maple / Universal Music due to the change of residence on the part of Collins . The singles Man on TV and Reason got only moderate airplay and no chart positions. And as with the previous album, there were hardly any live concerts.

For the 40th anniversary of the rock group Genesis , he covered their song Keep it Dark and made it available for free download on the Internet. The mp3 was downloaded over 200,000 times in the next 12 months.

In the same year he produced his third album U-Catastrophe with Kevin Churko , which was released in the fall of 2008 by Razor & Tie / Sony-BMG in America. The single Unconditional reached number 12 on the American adult contemporary charts and also made it into the Canadian Hot 100.

Simon Collins runs his own music label Lightyears Music and plays under the pseudonym "Spacehead" in clubs in Canada and Germany.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
All of Who You Are
  DE 57 04/10/1999 (1 week)
Singles
Pride
  DE 31 09/06/1999 (13 weeks)
Shine through
  DE 75 03/06/2000 (6 weeks)

Albums

  • 1999: All of Who You Are (WEA)
  • 2005: Time for Truth (Lightyears Music)
  • 2008: U-Catastrophe ( Razor & Tie / Sony-BMG )

Singles

  • 1999: Pride (WEA)
  • 2000: Money Maker (WEA)
  • 2000: Shine Through (WEA)
  • 2005: Man on TV (WEA)
  • 2005: Hold On (WEA)
  • 2007: Keep It Dark ( Genesis Cover) (Lightyears Music)
  • 2008: Powerless (Lightyears Music)
  • 2008: Unconditional (Razor & Tie / Lightyears Music)

With sound of contact

  • 2013: Dimensionaut (Album) (Inside Out Music)

Guest Posts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Collins. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Simon Collins at Billboard.com
  3. ↑ Chart discography albums
  4. ↑ Charts DE
  5. ↑ a b Simon Collins. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Sound Of Contact - Dimensionaut. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited II. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Collins, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammersmith , London