Lorrie Collins

Lorrie Collins represents an era I wish more people remembered. As half of the Collins Kids alongside her brother Larry, she was a teenage rockabilly powerhouse in the mid-1950s, belting out raw rock and roll when the genre itself was barely born. What moves me is the trajectory afterward: a child star who later built a grounded life, even working in real estate, before her induction into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2019 honored that early fire. There is a quiet dignity in someone who blazed young and then lived fully. She passed in 2018, but that spark she lit endures.

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Name (English)

Lorrie Collins

Name (Japanese)

ローリー・コリンズ

Reading

ろーりー・こりんず

Born

May 7, 1942 – August 4, 2018

Origin

Creek County, Oklahoma, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / singer / real estate agent

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

Awards & achievements

• 2019 Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrie%20Collins
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16105889

Tags

• Oklahoma
• actor
• television actor
• singer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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