NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Colin, bassist and founding member of the American pop-rock band Prepare, greatest recognized for his or her early-aughts hits like “Drops of Jupiter” and “Meet Virginia,” has died. He was 58.
Colin’s sister Carolyn Stephens confirmed her brother’s dying to The Related Press Wednesday. He died after slipping and falling within the bathe whereas house-sitting for a pal in Brussels, Belgium, movie star web site TMZ.com reported.
Colin grew up in California and Virginia and attended Berklee School of Music in Boston.
He performed in a bunch referred to as Apostles after faculty with guitarist Jimmy Stafford and singer Rob Hotchkiss. The band finally dissolved, and Colin moved to Singapore for a yr to put in writing jingles.
Ultimately, Colin, Hotchkiss and Stafford relocated to San Francisco, the place Prepare fashioned within the early ‘90s with singer Pat Monahan. Colin introduced in drummer Scott Underwood to spherical out the group, in response to an interview with Colin and Hotchkiss in Berklee’s alumni journal.
As a founding member of Prepare, Colin performed on the band’s first three data, 1998’s self-titled album, 2001’s “Drops of Jupiter” and 2003’s “My Personal Nation.” The latter two releases peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart.
“Meet Virginia,” from Prepare’s debut album broke the highest 20 of the Billboard Scorching 100, nevertheless it was their sophomore album, “Drops of Jupiter,” that confirmed the band’s success.
The eight-times platinum title monitor “Drops of Jupiter (Inform Me)” — which options the Rolling Stones ′ session pianist Chuck Leavell and Leonard Cohen ’s string orchestrator Paul Buckmaster and was written in regards to the dying of Monahan’s mom — hit No. 5 on the identical chart. It additionally earned two Grammys, for greatest rock track and greatest instrumental association accompanying vocalist(s).
Colin left Prepare in 2003 on account of substance abuse. “Charlie is one unbelievable bass participant, however he was in a variety of ache, and the way in which he was coping with it was very painful for everybody else round him,” Monahan instructed NBC San Diego.
In 2015, he reunited with Hotchkiss to begin a brand new band referred to as Painbirds, alongside Tom Luce.
In 2017, he fashioned one other band, the Aspect Deal, with Sugar Ray’s Stan Frazier and the PawnShop Kings’ Joel and Scott Owen.
On Wednesday, a tribute to Colin appeared on the official Fb and X social media pages for the band Prepare. “After I met Charlie Colin, entrance left, I fell in love with him. He was the sweetest man and what a good-looking chap. Let’s make a band that’s the one cheap factor to do,” it reads.
“His distinctive bass taking part in an exquisite guitar work helped get people to note us in SF and past. I’ll all the time have a heat place for him in my coronary heart. I all the time tried to tug him nearer however he had a imaginative and prescient of his personal. You’re a legend, Charlie. Go allure the pants off these angels.”
Previous to his dying, Colin documented his time in Brussels, writing “Formally my favourite metropolis,” in a March Instagram submit.
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