Greg Page
Greg (yellow shirt), with The Wiggles
Background information
Birth name	Gregory John Page
Born	(1972-01-16) 16 January 1972 (age 40) Sydney, Australia
Genres	Children's music Pop Rock Country
Instruments	guitar drums keyboards
Years active	1991 - present
Associated acts	The Wiggles
Website	Official webpage

Gregory John "Greg" Page AM (born 16 January 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian musician and actor. He is best known as the original lead vocalist and a founding member of the children's band The Wiggles. Page has also recorded several solo albums.

Career[link]

Page met Anthony Field and Murray Cook when they were Early Childhood Education students at Macquarie University, and combined their music backgrounds and teaching skills to form The Wiggles.^[1] When performing with The Wiggles, Page wore a yellow shirt. Like the other Wiggles, Page had a schtick, which was doing magic tricks.

His 2005 solo album, Taking Care of Country, reflects Page's interest in Elvis Presley's music. It was recorded with the TCB Band, Elvis' back-up band. In spring 2003, Page performed in Las Vegas with the TCB Band. In 2002, Page sang back-up with Australian Elvis impersonator Mick Gerace.^[1]

Illness and retirement[link]

On 30 November 2006, The Wiggles announced that Greg Page would leave the group due to poor health.^[2]

Page had experienced health difficulties since December 2005, when he underwent a double hernia operation and withdrew from his group's U.S. tour after suffering repeated fainting spells, slurred speech, fatigue, and trembling.^[3][4] Although Page was missing for virtually all of the late 2006 U.S. tour, audiences were informed of Page's absence at concerts moments before the curtain went up.^[5] At first, Page was told that he had seven years to live,^[4] but he was diagnosed with a non-life-threatening and difficult to diagnose chronic illness called orthostatic intolerance or dysautonomia, which causes symptoms such as fatigue and loss of balance. Specialists believed that Page had mild episodes of the illness going back twelve years, and that his symptoms worsened after his hernias. It was decided that Page would retire from performing with The Wiggles to better manage his health.^[2] In the months following the announcement of Page's retirement, he received an "overwhelming outpouring of public support". He reported that it took his parents six months to respond to the "mountains of letters, emails and sympathy notes".^[4] It was reported that as part owner of The Wiggles, Page was given a $20 million payout.^[6]

Page was succeeded by Sam Moran as a full member of the group.^[2]

Post-Wiggles[link]

By late 2009, Page had recovered enough from his illness to begin touring with another country rock band, but with a more limited schedule than The Wiggles. He had also started his own foundation, the Greg Page Fund, to raise funds and educate the public about orthostatic intolerance.^[7] In addition, he is a supporter of, and spokesperson for, the Dysautonomia Youth Network of America (DYNA).

Reunion with The Wiggles[link]

In January 2012, and amidst a great deal of controversy, The Wiggles announced that Page had regained his health and was returning to his role as the Yellow Wiggle. It was reported that he would return to full-time touring with the group in March of that year.^[6][8]

On 17 May 2012 it was announced that Page along with Murray Cook and Jeff Fatt, would be again retiring from The Wiggles at the end of the year. He was to be replaced by Wiggles cast member Emma Watkins, the first female member of The Wiggles. Page and the others expected to remain involved with the creative and production aspects of the group.^[9]

Personal life[link]

Page owned the fourth-largest collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia in the world.^[10] His collection included Elvis' personal and movie clothing, marriage certificate, guitar, piano, the last Cadillac owned by Elvis, and original TCB Band necklaces.^[11] In 2008 he decided to donate the collection, reportedly worth $1.5 million, to a new Elvis museum in Parkes, New South Wales.^[12] Some of the collection was lent for display at the 2008 Parkes Elvis Festival.^[13]

Page was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2010: "For service to the arts, particularly children's entertainment, and to the community as a benefactor and supporter of a range of charities".^[14]

Solo discography[link]

• Greg Page (1998)
• I Believe in Music (2002)
• Greg Page Live in Concert (2003)
• Throw Your Arms Around Me (2004)
• Taking Care of Country (2005)

Books[link]

• Page, Neil & Cadigan (2011). Now and then : the life-changing journey of the original Yellow Wiggle / Greg Page. Sydney: HarperCollins.  ISBN 978-0732289263 (paperback, 341pp.), ISBN 978-0730497295 (e-book, 352pp.)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• The official Wiggles website
• Greg's Message
• Dysautonomia Youth Network of America, Inc.
• Dysautonomia Information Network
• National Dysautonomia Research Foundation

Greg Page may refer to:

• Greg Page (boxer), (1958-2009), American boxer
• Greg Page (musician), (born 1972), Australian musician (Yellow Wiggle)
• Gregory R. Page, (born 1952), American businessman
• Gregory Page (Songwriter / Crooner / Record Producer), English Songwriter / Crooner / Record Producer
• Page Baronets, English family from the 18th century

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Ingrid Michaelson
Ingrid Michaelson performing in Amsterdam, 2009
Background information
Birth name	Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson
Born	(1979-12-08) December 8, 1979 (age 32)[1]
Origin	Staten Island, New York, U.S.
Genres	Indie pop, indie folk
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano, ukulele
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Cabin 24 Records, Mom+Pop Records
Website	Official website Twitter YouTube

Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson (born December 8, 1979) is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including Scrubs, Bones, Grey's Anatomy^[2] The Big C, In Plain Sight, and One Tree Hill,^[3] as well as in Old Navy's fall 2007 Fair Isle^[4] and Opel's/Vauxhall's Meriva 2010 advertising campaigns.^[5][6]

Biography[link]

Michaelson was born to artistic parents. Her father is a composer and her mother is a sculptor. Michaelson took up piano at age four, and trained until seven at Manhattan's Third Street Music School, continuing for many more years at the Jewish Community Center of Staten Island's Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute. While there she met vocal coach Elizabeth McCullough, who worked with her through high school.^[7] She is a graduate of Staten Island Technical High School and Binghamton University, where she received a degree in theater.^[7] While at Binghamton University she was a member of the Binghamtonics, a co-ed a cappella group, as well as the Pappy Parker Players, an improv comedy group, and the theatre repertory company under Sue Peters. Her time at Binghamton is mentioned in the song "The Hat". She grew up doing a musical theater group called "Kids On Stage". Later in life, she became a director until she decided to pursue her career in music.

Toward the end of 2008, she opened for Jason Mraz on his European tour, touring in the UK, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany and France among others. In the second half of 2009, Ingrid began her "Everybody" tour of the United States and Europe which continued in 2010.

In 2010 Ingrid was engaged to fellow artist Greg Laswell.^[8] They are married, which the singer acknowledged on her Twitter on January 16, 2012.^{[citation needed]}

Appearances and performances[link]

Television and radio[link]

• The AT&T Blue Room
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• Good Morning America
• Last Call with Carson Daly (performance with Joshua Radin)
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• Live From The Artists Den
• Live with Regis and Kelly
• NPR's "Bryant Park Project"
• The Rachael Ray Show
• Shark Tank (performing "Be OK" and demonstrating the Miso-Media, an iPad application for learning how to play stringed instruments)
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• VH1

Other appearances[link]

• Michaelson and Sara Bareilles performed "Winter Song" at the 2010 National Christmas Tree Lighting
• Michaelson performed "Blood Brothers" at the 85th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2011^[9]

Songs featured in television series[link]

[edit] Grey's Anatomy

• "Breakable"—"Staring at the Sun" (November 16, 2006)
• ”The Way I Am"--"Six Days (Part 2)" (January 11, 2007)
• "Corner of Your Heart"--"Testing 1-2-3" (13 September 2007)
• "Keep Breathing"--season 3 finale, "Didn't We Almost Have It All" (May 17, 2007)
• "Giving Up"-- season 4 finale, "Freedom" (May 22, 2008)
• "Turn to Stone" (a new B-side single from her upcoming album, Everybody)--season 5 episode, "What a Difference a Day Makes" (May 7, 2009)
• ”Winter Song”—season 5
• "All Love"--season 5 finale
• "The Chain"--season 6 episode "I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me" (October 1, 2009)
• "Everybody"--season 6 (January 21, 2010)

[edit] One Tree Hill

• "Masochist"--season 4, episode 13, "Pictures of You"
• "Overboard"--season 4, episode 14, "Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers"
• "The Way I Am"--season 4, episode 19, "Ashes of Dreams You Let Die"
• "Can't Help Falling in Love"--season 6, episode 23, "Forever And Almost Always"

Other series[link]

• "Winter Song”--Army Wives, season 3, episode 5
• "The Way I Am", "Die Alone" and "Far Away (Untitled)" in The Bad Girls Club
• "Keep Breathing"--The Big C, season 1, episode 2
• "Maybe”--Body of Proof, season 1, episode 6, “Society Hill"
• ”Winter Song”--Brothers & Sisters, season 4, episode 8
• "Everybody"--Brothers & Sisters, season 4, episode 14
• "All Love"--HBO series Enlightened, episode 7
• "The Chain"--Hellcats, season 1, episode 12, "Papa, Oh Papa"
• "Soldier"--In Plain Sight, 2011 episode "Meet The Shannons"
• "Maybe”--In Plain Sight, season 4 episode, "I'm a Liver, Not a Fighter"
• "Breakable"--Kyle XY, season 2, episode 3, "The List is Life"
• "Are We There Yet"--Make It or Break It
• “Be OK”— Parenthood, season 2, episode 15
• "Starting Now"--Pretty Little Liars, season 1, episode 7, "The Homecoming Hangover"
• "The Way I Am" and "Breakable"--The Real World: Denver
• "Winter Song"--Scrubs, season 8, episode 17
• ”Turn to Stone”—So You Think You Can Dance, choreographed by Travis Wall, season 8, Top 20 episode on June 15, 2011, and season finale as a judges' pick
• "Be OK”—Ugly Betty, season 4
• "Turn to Stone"--The Vampire Diaries, season 2 finale, "As I Lay Dying"
• "Are We There Yet?" --The Vampire Diaries, season 3, episode 1, "The Birthday"

Songs featured in films[link]

• "Be OK"--The House Bunny (2008)
• "You and I"--My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010)
• "Everybody"--Ramona and Beezus (2010)
• "Can't Help Falling in Love"--trailer for Like Crazy (2011)
• "Everybody"—trailer for Disney's Lady and the Tramp, Diamond Edition (2011)
• ”Everybody”—Sneak Peek for Disney’s Diamond Edition of The Lion King Blu-ray (2011)

Songs featured in commercials[link]

• "Sort Of" (instrumental version)--Google Chrome
• ”Be OK”—Mott's Apple Juice commercial featuring actress Marcia Cross^[10]
• ”The Way I Am”--Old Navy commercial
• ”Be OK”--Ritz Crackers commercial
• ”Be OK”--Traveler's Insurance commercial

Collaborations[link]

In 2006, Ingrid teamed up with William Fitzsimmons on his album Goodnight, which was released that same year.

Ingrid and her friend Sara Bareilles co-wrote "Winter Song" which was featured on The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs, a compilation of both original recordings as well as classic holiday tracks sung by a lineup of female singer-songwriters. Ingrid also worked with Bareilles, performing "Winter Song" for the President Obama and his family as well as many spectators at the National Christmas Tree Lighting in December 2010. In 2011, "Winter Song" reached number 2 on the Irish Singles Chart.^[11]

Ingrid provided back-up vocals on two songs from PlayRadioPlay!'s album Texas, including "I'm a Pirate, You're a Princess" and the title track, "Texas".

Ingrid provided back-up vocals on Greg Laswell's album, Take A Bow, which was released on May 4, 2010. Collaboration was done on the songs "Take Everything," "My Fight (For You)," and "Come Clean."^[12][13]

Ingrid's band includes Allie Moss and Bess Rogers on guitar, who are singer/songwriters in their own right. Allie Moss released a 2009 EP entitled Passerby. A single from the EP, "Corner", has been picked up by BT for their BT Infinity television commercials in the UK. Other band members include Chris Kuffner (Bass), husband of Bess Rogers(Guitar), Saul Simon-MacWilliams (keys) and Elliot Jacobson (drums).

In 2010, Ingrid co-wrote a song entitled "Parachute" with Marshall Altman which was covered by singer Cheryl Cole on her debut solo album 3 Words; it hit number 5 in the UK. Ingrid initially felt the track was "so poppy" that she could not release it herself. However, after the song was reworked by "Everybody" producer Dan Romer to make a more "interesting, funky production", Ingrid released the song as a personal single.^[14] To date, the song has received two separate music videos.

Of the release of "Parachute" and upcoming material, Ingrid explained in a 2010 interview with Billboard.com, "I just felt like I wanted to put something out. I'm not ready to put a full album out, so we thought we'd put this out and see how people take it or don't take it," saying that she expects to release her next album, "probably in the middle of next year."^[15]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Singles[link]

Other charted songs[link]

References[link]

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External links[link]

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• Official website

Gregory Porter is a jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actor. His debut album, Water, released in 2010 via Motéma Music, was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.^[1] He was also a member of the original Broadway cast of It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues. His sophomore album, Be Good, which contains many of Porter's compositions, was released on February 14th, 2012, and garnered critical acclaim for both his distinctive singing and his compositions, such as "Be Good (Lion's Song), "Real Good Hands", and "On My Way To Harlem".

Biography[link]

Porter was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Bakersfield, California, where his mother was a minister. He attended San Diego State University on a football scholarship until a shoulder injury sidelined him permanently. Performing in local jazz clubs, Porter met saxophonist, pianist, and composer Kamau Kenyatta, whose mentoring played an integral role in Porter's career trajectory and professional development. Kenyatta introduced Gregory to flautist Hubert Laws who, upon hearing Porter singing along to Charlie Chaplin's "Smile", chose to include a bonus track featuring Porter's vocals on his Hubert Laws' Remembers the Unforgettable Nat King Cole (1998). Eloise Laws, Hubert's sister, happened to be visiting the studio, and helped get Porter cast in one of the leading roles in a new musical, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, which premiered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts before moving to Off-Broadway and ultimately Broadway, in spite of previously having appeared in only one other theatrical work, Avenue X.

He currently lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. He is a resident performer at Smoke Jazz and a frequent guest performer at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has recorded with Nicola Conte. He has also appeared on Later... with Jools Holland on BBC2 (notably on Jools' 2011 New Year show, Hootenanny) and appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta. At Christmas 2011, Gregory appeared on the TV show Carole King and Friends at Christmas on BBC Four; the show played in many other locations around the world.

Following his performance at London Jazz Voice, with his a cappella version of "Feeling Good" opening the 2011 London Jazz Festival, Gregory features on a 14-date tour of the UK (beginning May 2, 2012) as one of the special guests with Jools Holland and his Orchestra. Jamie Cullum is a supporter of Gregory and invited him to record a session for his BBC Radio 2 program and he was Gregory's special guest at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2012 (May 5), following a performance on May 4 on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night singing the songs of Ray Charles.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 2010: Water
• 2012: Be Good'

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.grammy.com/videos/gregory-porter-at-nominees-reception

External links[link]

• Official website
• Gregory Porter at Motéma Music
• Gregory Porter Booking Agent: RedFireMusic www.redfiremusic.co.uk

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Gregory Norman "Greg" Ham (27 September 1953 – 19 April 2012) was an Australian songwriter, actor and saxophone player known for playing multiple instruments in the 1980s band Men at Work. In addition to the saxophone, he played flute, organ, piano and the synthesiser.

Early life[link]

Ham was born in Melbourne and attended Camberwell Grammar School from 1964 to 1971.^[1] According to the school's year books, he was remembered for his acting talent in school plays, particularly The World We Live In (the insect comedy) in 1969 where he played the "parasite". In 1970 he played Mr Seekamp, editor of the Ballaarat Times, in Lola Montez and, in 1971, Puff in The Critic. In 1967 Ham was photographed airborne by J. Jones in a still photo which won first prize in the Ilford Competition. He completed HSC in both 1970 and 1971 with high marks in Chinese (B) (1970), physics (B) (1970) and biology (A) (1971). He was a senior prefect in 1971.^[2]

With Men at Work[link]

In 1972, Ham met and befriended Colin Hay via mutual friend Kym Gyngell and, in 1979, joined the original lineup of Men at Work with Hay, Ron Strykert and Jerry Speiser. Ham and Hay formed the core of the band from 1979 until 1985 when Ham left, with the band disbanding shortly afterward. Ham returned to Men at Work when they reformed in 1996 to tour the United States.^[3]

As a multi-instrumentalist, Ham played saxophone, keyboards, flute and harmonica for the group as well as performing vocals. He performed the saxophone solo in the song "Who Can It Be Now?" (a rehearsal take was used in the final mix) and improvised the flute riff in the song "Down Under". In 2009, music publisher Larrikin Music, then headed by Norman Lurie (now retired), sued Men at Work and their record label EMI for plagiarism, alleging that the flute riff copied the 1934 nursery rhyme "Kookaburra", to which they owned the publishing rights. The Federal Court of Australia ruled that "Down Under" did infringe the copyright of "Kookaburra" and awarded Larrikin 5% of the song's royalties backdated to 2002. Several appeals by EMI and Men at Work were unsuccessful. In an interview with The Age newspaper, Ham said that he was deeply affected by the judgment and felt it had tarnished his reputation, saying: "I'm terribly disappointed that that's the way I'm going to be remembered—for copying something."^[4]

Later activity and death[link]

Ham played brass and keyboard with the R&B band Relax with Max, with frontman Max Vella, girlfriend and later wife, Linda "Toots" Wostry, on saxophone, James Black on keyboard, David Adam and Ross Hannaford on guitar and John James "JJ" Hackett on drums. Relax with Max played at the Metropol in Fitzroy and on ABC's television comedy While You're Down There and at the Falls Creek music festival. They supported Australian artists including Kylie Minogue and American soul singers James Brown and Bo Diddley.^{[citation needed]}

Later in life, Ham taught guitar at Carlton North Primary School and assessed music students for the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).^[3]

Ham was found dead at his home in Carlton North, Melbourne, on 19 April 2012, where he lived alone.^[5] Friends had been unable to contact him for a few days and went to his house to investigate. An obituary for Ham by Glenn A. Baker appeared in The Age newspaper on 24 April 2012.^[6] Ham's private funeral was held at the Fitzroy Town Hall, in Melbourne, on 2 May 2012. The cause of his death has not been made known.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

External links[link]

• Greg Ham on Myspace
• Greg Ham at the Internet Movie Database
• Greg Ham at the Notable Names Database