Charlie Colin, bassist and founding member of the band Train, best known for their early-aughts hits like “Drops of Jupiter' and “Meet Virginia,” has died. He was 58.
BRUSSELS — Charlie Colin , bassist and founding member of the band Train , best known for their early-aughts hits like “Drops of Jupiter" and “Meet Virginia,” has died. He was 58.
Colin grew up in Southern California, later attending Berklee College of Music in Boston. After college, he played in a group called Apostles guitarist Jimmy Stafford and singer Rob Hotchkiss. The band eventually dissolved, and Colin moved to Singapore for a year to write jingles. As a founding member of the pop-rock band, Colin played on the band's first three records, 1998's self-titled album, 2001's “Drops of Jupiter” and 2003's “My Private Nation." The latter two releases peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart.
The eight-times platinum title track “Drops of Jupiter " featured the Rolling Stones ' session pianist Chuck Leavell and Leonard Cohen’s string orchestrator Paul Buckmaster and was written about the death of Monahan's mother. It hit No. 5 on the Billboard chart and earned two Grammys, including best rock song.In 2015, he reunited with Hotchkiss to start a new band called Painbirds, alongside Tom Luce.
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