Truman (right) recording vocals with Paul Paddick and Greg Page.
Truman and Sam Moran singing backup on "Eagle Rock" during a filmed performance of the Lights, Camera, Action, Show! live tour.
Greg Truman is an Australian writer, journalist, and singer based in New York who has written various Wiggles productions and performed as a backing vocalist on some of the band's albums.
Truman has written multiple scripts for film, television, and radio and worked on several manuscripts for both fiction and non-fiction as an editor, script doctor, and ghostwriter. He has also worked for various news publications such as the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Associated Press and co-wrote the book Bending Toward Justice with former Alabama senator Doug Jones. He currently performs as a singer for the NYC-based bands Earthlings and The DownUnders.
He is married to Regina Truman and together, they has two children: Seth and Bella. Truman is also the cousin of Wiggles creator and founding blue Wiggle Anthony Field.
Wiggles Media Credits[]
Writer[]
Video Specials and Other Media[]
- The Wiggles Movie
- Series 1 of The Wiggles
- Space Dancing!
- Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (uncredited)[citation needed]
- Cold Spaghetti Western
- Racing to the Rainbow
Songs[]
- It's A Wiggly Wiggly World! - Co-Writer of "Blow Me Down"
- Wiggle Bay - Co-Writer of "The Zeezap Song" and "Dance The Gloomies Away"
- Cold Spaghetti Western - Co-Writer of "The Wiggly Trail" and "Foodman"
- The Wiggles' World - Co-Writer of "Lachy's Curly World (song)", "It's A Message from Curly Town", and "How Do I Look?"
- Le James Café - Co-Writer of "Le James Café Theme", "Paul the Dancing Waiter", "Vegan Hot Dog", "Sensational Salsa"*, "Stinky Cheese", "Cowboy Chilli", and "James' Dessert Song"
*Is a renaming of "Cubano Salsa", which Truman is not credited for.
Books[]
Backing Vocalist[]
- Yummy Yummy
- Big Red Car (on "Wags the Dog", "Henry's Dance", "Hat On My Head", "Do the Flap", and "Teddy Bear Hug" only)
- Wake Up Jeff!
- The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack
- LIVE Hot Potatoes!
- Here Comes the Big Red Car (archived recordings)
- It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (archived recordings, uncredited)
Trivia[]
- In addition to being cousins with Anthony Field, Truman also co-wrote Field's memoirs How I Got My Wiggle Back: A Memoir of Healing and Out of the Blue.
- Truman also studied at the same university where Field met Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Phillip Wilcher and decided to form the Wiggles.
- Truman has also made brief cameos in Top of the Tots (during "Central Park New York" with his wife and son) and as an additional footballer in Racing to the Rainbow.