“It turns out it was great training for the rest of my life.”īy her late teens, Collins was a street musician, busking in Greenwich Village. “I tried to live up to my family’s expectations, studying my music, tending to siblings, being the good daughter - just doing what had to be dealt with growing up. “You have to do what you have to do,” Collins said. Sparked by the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, Collins quit the piano, took up the guitar and joined the likes of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Richard Farina in the singer-songwriter-activist arena. But a growing interest in folk music earned not just the disapproval but outright scorn of her teacher, Antonia Brico (who, years later - even after Collins had an international singing reputation - told her: “Poor Judy, you really could have gone far”).
Collins, born and reared in Seattle, studied classical piano as a child and made her debut there as a 13-year-old prodigy.
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