Simon Philip Nando Collins is a British-Canadian drummer and former lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Sound of Contact. Collins is the son of English drummer and singer Phil Collins and Collins’s first wife, Andrea Bertorelli. He is the brother of actress Joely Collins and half-brother of actress Lily Collins.
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Simon Philip Nando Collins is a British-Canadian drummer and former lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Sound of Contact. Collins is the son of English drummer and singer Phil Collins and Collins’s first wife, Andrea Bertorelli. He is the brother of actress Joely Collins and half-brother of actress Lily Collins. Collins was signed by Warner Music following a release of demo tapes he had recorded in 2000. In 2003, Collins left Warner Music and returned to Vancouver to start his own record label, Lightyears Music. He played a variety of instruments on the album On The Lightyears.
In 2007, he recorded a cover of Genesis’ Abacabab as a tribute to Genesis, with keyboardist and co-producer Dave Kerzner. In 2008, Collins’ first North American recording, The U-Cat-Catastrophe, debuted on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart at No. 1. He has released two albums, All of Who You Are and Time Truth, as well as a single, “Shine Through”, which was co-written by Collins and Howard Jones. He also has a second album coming out in 2012, called “Keep it Dark”
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