![]() and the U.S., with elaborate concept albums, before Gabriel abruptly left in 1974. They had achieved a moderate level of success in the U.K. Genesis was fronted by singer Peter Gabriel. (Collins maintained a separate jazz career with the band Brand X as well.) (He also has a cameo in A Hard Day's Night, among other films.) 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. 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. Between 19, Collins had a string of 13 straight U.S. Balding and diminutive, Collins was almost 30 years old when his first solo single, "In the Air Tonight," became a number two hit in his native U.K. 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.
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