Bootsy Collins
personal-info
known-for
Acting
gender
Male
birthday
1951-10-26
place-of-birth
Cincinatti, Ohio, USA
also-known-as
Bootzilla
Bootsy's Rubber Band
Zillatron
Fuzzface
Funkadelic
Parliament
P-Funk All-Stars
The JB's
Casper the Funky Ghost
William Earl Collins
biography
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with 15 other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.