Birth name Lachlan Gillespie Name Lachlan Gillespie Instruments Vocals Role Singer | Years active 2009–present | |
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Occupation(s) Singer, Actor, Musician Albums Hot Potatoes: The Best, Surfer Jeff, Hot Poppin' Popcorn, Sing Along: Crunchy Munchy, Ukulele Baby! Similar People | ||
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Lachlan "Lachy" Gillespie (born October 23, 1971) is an Australian singer, musician, and actor. He is the lead singer in The Wiggles and wears the purple skivvy.
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- A quick yoga rouine with new purple wiggle lachy gillespie
- Welcome emma watkins simon pryce and lachlan gillespie
- Early life
- Career
- References
Welcome emma watkins simon pryce and lachlan gillespie
Early life
Gillespie, whose nickname is "Lachy", began playing the piano at the age of four, and started formal singing training when he was 12. He attended the Fame School of Performing Arts as a teenager, earned a Bachelor of Arts in musical theatre at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), and has performed in musicals in Melbourne and New York. He has been a vocal and drama coach for children between the ages of four and 13.
Career
Gillespie joined The Wiggles in 2009, touring with the "Dorothy the Dinosaur Traveling Show", as Captain Feathersword, and then as a Wiggly Dancer and Wags the Dog during the group's regular tour. In May 2012, it was announced that Gillespie would replace founding member Jeff Fatt as the Purple Wiggle at the beginning of the following year.
In May 2015, Gillespie and fellow Wiggles performer Emma Watkins announced their engagement. They married on 9 April 2016 at Hopewood House in Bowral in New South Wales, Australia.
Gillespie hosts the short-form television show Lachy! which aired on ABC in 2016. It contains episode shorts of him as Lachy Wiggle.