American bassist Charlie Colin and founder of the Californian pop-rock band Train, passed away at 58 years after slip in the shower while looking after friends’ house in Brussels (Belgium), US media reported this Wednesday.
The artist’s body was found inside said home five days ago, when his friends returned from the trip that kept them out of the Belgian capital, the press detailed this Thursday.
Colin was one of the original members of Train, initially formed by Pat Monahan, Rob Hotchkiss, Scott Underwood y Jimmy Stafford, and contributed to the group’s first three studio albums; since its debut Train (1999) a My Private Nation (2003), going through Drops of Jupiter (2001).
with success Tell Mefrom their second album, the group made it onto the Billboard list and won two Grammy Awards: best rock song and best instrumental arrangement with vocalists.
The musician, a native of Newport Beach (California) and until now musical director of that town’s Film Festival, study in the prestigious Berklee School of Musicspecializing in guitar and jazz composition.
He would later move to Los Angeles and join a band with Hotchkiss, whom he had met at Berklee. Later, together with Stafford, they would found the group The Apostleswhich led them to play internationally and return to the US in 1996 to definitively create Train.
Along with Train, Colin toured around the world and achieved great success before leaving the band in 2003 due to his drug addiction problems.
In recent times, Colin played with hard rock bands such as Slipknot y Puddle of Mudd, and met with Hotchkiss in 2015 to form the band Painbirds next to Tom Luce.