Brian Collins

A country singer and tunesmith with a soulful touch who enjoyed a modest run of hits in the '70s, Brian Collins was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 19, 1950. Collins' family headed southwest when he was young, and he spent much of his youth in Texas City, Texas. In his teens, Collins was bitten by the rock & roll bug, and was part of a local band called the Nomads (one of several groups using the name in the mid-'60s). And in very mid-'60s fashion, the group ran afoul of the Texas City school district, who insisted the semi-long hair worn by the young rockers violated t...