PHIL COLLINS

ascent to the status of one of the most

successful pop and adult contemporary

singers of the '80s and beyond was probably as

much of a surprise to him as it was to many

others. Balding and diminutive, Collins was

almost 30 years old when his first solo single.

Long before any of that happened, however,

Collins was a child actor/singer who appeared

as the Artful Dodger in the London production

of Oliver! in 1964.

He got his first break in music at the end of his

teens, when he was chosen to be a replacement

drummer in the British art rock band Genesis in

1970. During the '80s, Collins was enormously

successful in balancing his continuing solo

work with his membership in Genesis. 

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