Edwyn Collins

Edwyn Stephen Collins born 23 August 1959 is a Scottish musician producer and record label owner from Edinburgh Collins was the lead singer for the 1980s postpunk band Orange Juice which he cofounded After the group split in 1985 Collins started a solo career His 1994 single A Girl Like You was a worldwide hit In February 2005 Collins was hospitalised after two cerebral haemorrhages which resulted in aphasia and he needed months to recover He resumed his musical career in 2007 A documentary film on his recovery The Possibilities Are Endless was released in 2014 Collins was the cofounder of the indie record label Postcard Records and cofounded a second label Analogue Enhanced Digital in 2011 Collins has also worked as an illustrator television actor television producer and record producer He won an Ivor Novello Award the Ivor Inspiration Award in 2009 Collins was born in Edinburgh He lived in Dundee from the age of six to 14 after his father got a job as a lecturer at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design He attended the nowdefunct Demonstration School in Park Place where new educational ideas were tried out by students and teachers from the adjacent teacher training college before moving to the secondary school Morgan Academy Collins cofounded the band the NuSonics in 1976 in the Glasgow suburb of Bearsden The band changed its name to Orange Juice in 1979 Collins and his friend Alan Horne founded the record label Postcard Records that year to release the bands singles The bands debut single Falling and Laughing was issued in February 1980 Although critically acclaimed the single only sold 2000 copies After three more singles with Postcard Orange Juice signed to Polydor Records in October 1981 and released their debut album You Cant Hide Your Love Forever in March 1982 The bands second album Rip It Up followed in November 1982 Their single Rip It Up released in early 1983 reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart and was noted as the first British hit single to feature a bassline from the Roland TB303 synthesizer The song was their only Top 40 single The bands two subsequent albums Texas Fever and The Orange Juice were both released in 1984 They failed to find the same success as Rip It Up Orange Juice disbanded in January 1985 after Polydor grew dissatisfied with the bands lack of success and the bands difficulty finding a new label to sign with During this time in his career Collins met Grace Maxwell whom he hired as his manager and later married Collins started his solo career in 1986 and signed to Elevation Records a label that was a coventure between indie label Creation Records and major label Warner Music Source Article Edwyn Collins from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30