Phil Collins: Among his 5 children, only one stood out from the others and rather radically

To the delight of his fans, he has just given his news in the documentary “Drummer First”, available on the Drumeo YouTube channel. Magani and pale complexion, appears but happy to evoke the great moments of his career And to hear the compliments of other musicians, such as Chad Smith, the drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers group. her son Nicholas (23)very moved by hearing him taking stock of his health. “I spent all my life playing the battery. No longer being able is a shockadmits his father. The battery had an impact on my hands and legs. If I can’t play as well as before, I prefer to relax and do nothing. If I wake up one day by being able to hold a pair of baguettes, then I would try to play. But I feel like I have used all my resources.”

Nicholas is the son of the third wife of the ex-leader of the Genesis group, the Swiss, who worked as a translator at the start of her tour First Final Farewell Tour In 1994, when she was 22 years old. They got married in 1999 and separated five years later, precipitating English in. Like his sire, Nicholas is a talented drummer. He accompanied Phil Collins, the Mike and the Mechanics group and founded the Better Strange groups and The Effect. Nicholas is not the youngest of the five children of the legend at the two hundred million albums sold because he and Orianne Cevey had another boy, Matthew, 20 years old. The latter did not inherit the love of the big drinking from Phil but that of the round ball. This right environment is currently playing WSG Tirol, an Austrian club. Previously, he has evolved in the youth teams of German clubs, Hannover 96 and Astoria Walldorf. As he said in the newspaper Tyrolean daily newspaperhis current coach, Manuel Ludwiger, did not even know that his new recruit was the son of a world star by enlisting him: ” We are looking for the stats of our recruits on Google. It was only at that time that we noticed it. »

Matthew’s stammering career fought with Happiness Phil who was himself a big fan of the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, training in northern London. He notably admired Jimmy Greaves, the top scorer in the history of the England championship with 357 goals. Moreover, Who Said I WouldPhil Collins’ song, is traditionally played at the entrance to the Paris-Saint-Germain players at the Parc des Princes. It is precisely thanks to the French capital that is known worldwide, one of the musician’s two girls. Born in 1989 of her union with her second wife, the American Jill Tavelman, Lily is the heroine of the successful series of Netflix, Emily in Paris. Her father would have left her mother when she was 6 years old, by a simple dispatch of fax. He then left to live in Switzerland with Orianne Cevey, while Lily and his mother left their English house to settle in California.

Lily proud of Phil Collins, her father

However, as she entrusted to Daily Mail A few years ago, Lily does not want the septuagenarian: “Nothing makes me more proud than when someone tells me that my father’s music touched him. But I am also proud to make my own way. There have been so many times when I could have played on my name, but I have always turned it away. Now I understood that the name Collins can open doorsbut it’s up to me to keep them open.”

Lily has a big sister, Joly (52), who is also an actress. She is the daughter of Andrea Bertorelli, who adopted her. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Joely played in the series Poltergeist: the adventurers of the supernatural et Cold Squad, Special Brigade. She put her career in parentheses in 2020 and made Collins a grandfather with the little Zoé, born in 2009. Finally, the eldest of siblings is Simon Collins, born in 1976 from her marriage to Andrea Bertorelli. Like his father, he is also a musician and singer, publishing three albums and even taking up a song from Genesis, Keep It Dark. On his album U-Catastrophe (2008), Simon shares with his father a battery duo. Unfortunately, in 2014, he caused him concern by being Arrested by Wiltshire police, England, for possession and drug trafficking.

Familiar himself alcohol problems, his father held his hand at the time. Besides, two years later, Phil published an autobiography, in the ironic title Not dead yet (Not yet dead), in which he gave himself up in all sincerity on The catastrophic consequences of celebrity on his private life : “I told myself that I am a poor guy. The hole I have in my life,“Today, he seems to be peaceful and confides that it is the love of his five children who saved his life.