Bootsy Collins

For my money, Bootsy Collins is the rare virtuoso who never let virtuosity get in the way of joy. The discipline he absorbed playing behind James Brown gave him the foundation to go gloriously weird with Parliament-Funkadelic: the star-shaped bass, the space-cowboy outfits, basslines that wobble and snap like rubber. I love that combination of rigor and play, because you cannot fake either side of it. Plenty of bassists are technically flawless, but very few changed how the instrument feels. Bootsy made the bass a lead character, a comedian, and a heartbeat all at once. Modern funk simply does not exist in its current form without him.

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Name (English)

Bootsy Collins

Name (Japanese)

ブーツィー・コリンズ

Reading

ぶーつぃー・こりんず

Born

October 26, 1951 (age 75)

Origin

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Occupation

bassist / songwriter / singer / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

• Official sitehttps://www.bootsycollins.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bootsy_collins/
• Xhttps://x.com/Bootsy_Collins
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsy%20Collins
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452411

Tags

• Ohio
• bassist
• songwriter
• singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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