, bassist and founding , best known for their early-aughts hits like " " and " ," has died. He was 58. Colin's sister confirmed her brother's death to The Associated Press Wednesday.
He died after slipping and falling in the shower while house-sitting for a friend in Brussels, Belgium, celebrity website TMZ.com reported. Colin grew up in California and Virginia and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston.
He played in a group called after college with and . The band eventually dissolved, and Colin moved to Singapore for a year to write jingles. Eventually, Colin, Hotchkiss and Stafford relocated to , where Train formed in the early '90s with singer Pat Monahan.
Colin brought in drummer to round out the group, according to an interview with Colin and Hotchkiss in Berklee's alumni magazine. As a founding member of Train, Colin played on the band's first three records, 1998's self-titled album, 2001's "Drops of Jupiter" and 2003's "My Private Nation." The latter two releases peaked at No.
6 on the Billboard 200 chart. "Meet Virginia," from Train's debut album broke the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, but it was their sophomore album, "Drops of Jupiter," that confirmed the band's success. The eight-times platinum title track "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" - which features the session pianist Chuck Leavell and Leonard Cohen 's string orchestrator and was written about the death of Monahan's mother - hit No.
5 on the same chart. It also earned two Grammys, for best rock song and.