Phil Collins' famous daughter Lily had no clue some of his hit songs were 'real'

Lily Collins was asked astir her favourite Genesis opus and she admitted she thought immoderate were 'just a melody successful her head'

Phil Collins' celebrated girl Lily Collins admitted she had nary thought immoderate of his celebrated songs were 'actually real'.

The Emily In Paris histrion is the girl of In The Air Tonight vocalist Phil and Jill Tavelman. Phil's vocation began with him drumming for Genesis successful 1970 erstwhile helium was inactive a teenager. From 1970 to 1975, helium played drums, and percussion, and mostly sang the backing vocals connected Genesis albums and concerts.

He went connected a travel arsenic a solo instrumentalist and made iconic songs similar In The Air Tonight, Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) and One More Night. He besides won an Oscar for champion archetypal song, You'll Be In My Heart, which was for the Tarzan soundtrack. This week, Lily appeared connected Watch What Happens Live! with Andy Cohen and discussed her dad's music.

She admitted she wasn't alert of his stint successful Genesis but heard the songs erstwhile she was a child. She was questioned which Genesis opus was her favourite and she said: "The comic happening is that I person these memories, arsenic a kid, of songs that I don’t cognize if they’re really real.

"Because they were successful my caput arsenic I was possibly successful the womb. But past erstwhile I went to the archetypal Genesis performance that I really remembered – arsenic an big – determination were songs that came connected that I went, “That’s a existent song?!” I thought that was conscionable a melody successful my head. It was truly weird. It was confirmed."

However, she did take 1 of her favourite solo songs, revealing: "Probably In the Air Tonight. There’s excessively many." Two years ago, Lily weighed successful connected the nepotism statement and defended her ain success. "It was retired of the question that radical would deliberation that I usage a escaped walk acknowledgment to my name," she told Vogue France.

"I’m arrogant of my dad, but I wanted to beryllium me, not conscionable his daughter. For that, I was acceptable to hold to interruption through." She besides spoke to Glamour and admitted she ne'er considered changing her past sanction to region herself from her father. “I’m truthful incredibly arrogant of what my surname represents, for what my dad’s done,” she told the publication. “And I’m an incredibly arrogant daughter, but I americium going connected my ain path, my ain journey. I didn’t privation to alteration my past name.”

However, she did get frustrated erstwhile being introduced arsenic 'Phil Collins' daughter'. She continued: "I truthful severely wanted to ever combat that due to the fact that it wasn’t the spot that I was coming from. And truthful I americium truly arrogant of wherever I americium contiguous due to the fact that I cognize however hard I work."

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