Charlie Colin, the founding bassist of pop-rock band Practice, has died. He was 58 years previous.
In keeping with TMZ, who spoke to the musician’s mom, the California-bred artist died after slipping and falling within the bathe whereas house-sitting for a good friend in Brussels, Belgium. His mom stated it’s unclear when Colin handed away, as his physique was discovered solely after his pals returned from their journey roughly 5 days in the past.
His mother additionally instructed TMZ that the musician had moved to Brussels to show a music masterclass at a conservatory and was engaged on new music for a movie on the time of his dying. Colin had been documenting his time overseas on Instagram, the place he declared that the locale was his “formally [his] favourite metropolis” in a March submit.
Colin helped type Practice with lead singer Pat Monahan, Rob Hotchkiss, Jimmy Stafford and Scott Underwood within the ’90s. Earlier than leaving the group as a consequence of substance abuse points in 2003, he took half in recording hits akin to “Drops of Jupiter” — which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Scorching 100 and earned the band its first Grammy nominations for greatest rock efficiency by a duo or a gaggle and file of the yr — and “Meet Virginia.” Practice’s self-titled debut album reached No. 76 on the Billboard 200 in 1999.
In 2015, Colin, Hotchkiss and Underwood fashioned the band Painbirds with Tom Luce.
Raised in Newport Seaside, Colin first met Hotchkiss in center faculty. The 2 went to Boston’s Berklee School of Music at separate instances earlier than reconnecting when the latter fashioned the band the Apostles.
After the Apostles disbanded, Hotchkiss met Monahan and started collaborating on songs within the Bay Space. They later invited Stafford and Colin to affix the lineup, after which Colin introduced in Underwood to play drums — and Practice was born.
“Charlie known as me up and stated, ‘It’s been this bizarre synchronicity the place we’re not even keen to think about quitting,’” Hotchkiss recalled of his good friend in a 2015 interview with the Los Angeles Instances. “At the start, our precedence is writing songs, and we actually take pleasure in enjoying stay.”
This story first appeared on Billboard.com.
