In Disney As Disney's first child recording artist and a prototype for a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign, launched by a newly formed Disney Records, Christa Larson released her debut album ''Minnie 'n Me: Songs Just for Girls'' in 1990. That same year she performed in the 1990
Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade with
Amy Grant. She performed in a guest appearance on
Michael Jackson's "
Heal the World" in 1991. On May 9, 1991, while Christa was on tour in Australia promoting her debut album, she got sick. When they passed by a hospital, her mother, Denise Larson, wanted to go inside to see if they could make an appointment for her daughter. While she was crossing the street, she was run over by a male driver, who fled the scene and was never found. Denise died from her injuries. Christa was eventually dropped from Disney Records and her second album was shelved. Her father is now remarried to his third wife. After losing her mother who was also her manager Larson effectively left show business in 1992. After Denise died, Christa dropped out of high school. Christa later married Rik Collins.
In Woolly Bandits After staying away from performances for a long time, Collins returned to the stage as the front woman of the rock and roll band Woolly Bandits. The band released "Woman of Mass Destruction" in 2009 to positive reviews and became KROQ radio DJ
Rodney Bingenheimer's favorite new band and album. Collins also sang "
Can't Seem to Make You Mine" alongside
Billy Corgan (
Smashing Pumpkins) at the 2009 memorial of Sky Saxon,
The Seeds founder.
In The X Factor Collins applied for the first season of
The X Factor USA. During the Top 100 stage of the competition, Collins sang "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol along with group members Henri Bredouw, Hannah Jackson, Emma Henry, Ryan Sims, The Brewers, and Kyle Corr. Later, she was chosen to be one of the eight acts for the "over-30s" category that would advance to the judges' houses. For one of her performances at the judges' houses stage, she sang "No Surprises" by Radiohead. However, she did not pass through to the top 17. ==Discography==