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Degrees
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None - just real experience
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My Expert Service
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For more than 30 years I did about all of it. I've played several variety acts, toured with contemporary artists, appeared in major films, played back-up on live television, numerous recordings, major Broadway Shows and traveled the US and Canada extensively.
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Experience & Qualifications
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My father was a professional drummer. He worked with several of the Big Bands and settled in L.A., where he became a very in-demand studio musician. Drums were always around me!
I auditioned and was selected for my first tour at age 19. The Doodletown Pipers toured the US and played Las Vegas. We opened for Perry Como.
At 20 I earned the drum chair in the rock dance band at Disneyland.
At 23 I toured with Sammy Davis, Jr. During this stint, we appeared for one week on The Tonight Show, as well as a gig in London and Las Vegas. One night in New York city I played with the Count Basie band.
At 25 I toured with British recording star Ian Matthews.
Later that year, I auditioned for and got the gig playing drums for the smash Broadway show, The Wiz at the L.A. Music Centre.
After The Wiz, I then spent one year with Arista recording artists, The Pets.
I took some time off, but came back to the business to accept the drum chair for the enormously successful Broadway show, Evita at the Shubert Theatre in Century City. After a year and a half, I left that company to go to the second national tour of Evita which took us to over 100 cities in a year and a half. I later played the percussion book on this tour as well.
At 32 I auditioned for and got the drum chair for Dreamgirls, again at the Shubert Theatre in Century City. A very demanding drum chair, to be sure!
At 33 I got called to play Sugar, the Broadway musical (in L.A.), starring Joe Namath and Robert Morse. What a hoot.
In the fall of 1984 I got 'the nod' for CATS, which was coming to L.A. I left in mid-86 to begin a new touring company of CATS. Two tours of CATS lasted nearly 3 and half years. I played over 2,000 performances.
In between the CATS tours, I did one tour with Sarah Brightman and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
In 1995, I accepted a tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which ran to the end of 1996.
I left touring at this point and subsequently retired from the business.
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Ken Collier
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