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The Wiggles

Network
ABC
Genre
Family
Premiered
31 July, 1998
The Wiggles

The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney, New South Wales in 1991. Since 2013, the group members have been Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, and Emma Watkins. The original members were Field, Phillip Wilcher, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. Wilcher left the group after their first album. Page retired in 2006 due to ill health and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran, but returned in 2012, replacing Moran. At the end of 2012, Page, Cook, and Fatt retired and were replaced by Gillespie, Pryce, and Watkins. Cook and Fatt retained their shareholding in the group and all three continued to have input into its creative and production aspects. Field and Fatt were members of the Australian pop band The Cockroaches in the 1980s, and Cook was a member of several bands before meeting Field and Page at Macquarie University, where they were studying to become pre-school teachers.

Origin Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres Children's
Years active 1991–present
Labels ABC Music
Members Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins
Past members Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Greg Page, Phillip Wilcher, Sam Moran

À propos de The Wiggles

Children's series geared for babies up to older toddlers that stars the musicians that are known as The Wiggles. The series featured songs and dances to teach to kids.

Réalisation de The Wiggles

A former manager of The Cockroaches' helped the group negotiate with ABC to air the TV show. Around 1997, they filmed a TV pilot for ABC but the project never got off the ground. The band then financed 13 episodes of the show themselves and sold it to the Disney Channel in Australia and to Channel Seven, where it became a hit.

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Dernières informations sur The Wiggles mis à jour le 28 Juillet, 2021.