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Greg Poppleton actor and old-style singer
Greg Poppleton actor and 1920s-30s-style singer

Greg Poppleton (born 19 October 1960 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian 1920s and 1930s-style singer, band leader, actor and radio broadcaster.

Career

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After leaving Fort Street High School, Poppleton studied Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Mass Communications at the University of Technology Sydney. He began doing talks and music shows on community station 2SER[1] and left engineering to be a sound producer at SBS Radio. At SBS he hosted the network's first English language music and talks program and was the first SBS voice heard in Australia's northern-most capital, Darwin. While at SBS he took up stage, film and TV acting, beginning in commercials, and formed his first 1920s - 1930s style band.

Poppleton's passion for the music of the 1920s - 1930s started at age three after seeing Louis Armstrong on TV.[2] Poppleton leads a jazz deco band and 1920s dance orchestra that has played for festivals in Australia and New Zealand.[3][4] A lyric baritone, Poppleton "captures that decade's vocal style (1920s-30s) to perfection."[5] Mixes of his four albums[6][7] have more than one million total YouTube views.[8] His music has been played on commercial radio.[9]

He is an actor in the movies Backtrack, Dirty Deeds and Moulin Rouge! in scenes opposite Adrien Brody, John Goodman and Nicole Kidman. He is also in the feature films Footy Legends, Hunt Angels, Fat Pizza and Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.[10] On TV he has appeared in Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, Underbelly: The Golden Mile and All Saints.[11] He told the story of 'The King of Ragtime'[12] Scott Joplin in the one-man stage show with nine-piece ragtime orchestra, “The Life and Music of Scott Joplin”.[13]

Poppleton is an award-winning jazz broadcaster.[14][15] His weekly Phantom Dancer show is sent to radio stations across Australia on the Community Radio Network.[16]

Awards

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  • 1989 BASF/PBAA (Public Broadcasting Association of Australia) Runner Up Award for Excellence for "Registered Clubs of NSW: a musical legacy"
  • 1991 BASF/PBAA (Public Broadcasting Association of Australia) Runner Up Award for Excellence for "42 Years of TV"
  • 2007 CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia) Awards Winner Excellence in Music Programming sponsored by the PPCA for "The Phantom Dancer"
  • 2016 CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia) Awards Finalist Excellence in Music Programming sponsored by the PPCA for "The Phantom Dancer"

Discography

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  • The Phantom Dancer: 14 Songs of the Swing Era in Radio Review (2006)
  • Doin' The Charleston (2013)
  • Sweet Sue (2014)
  • Back In Your Own Backyard (2016)

References

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  1. ^ "Phantom Dancer - 2ser". 2ser. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  2. ^ "In the swing of things - TV & Radio - Entertainment - smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. ^ "Waiheke International Jazz Festival set to kick off at Easter". Stuff. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  4. ^ "Sixth annual Waiheke International Jazz Festival draws Easter crowds". Stuff. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. ^ Kevin Jones (February 2013). Herbert, Lizzie (ed.). "Doin' the Charleston: Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters". FM102.5 Fine Music Magazine. 40 (2). Sydney: FM102.5 Fine Music: 20. Greg Poppleton captures that decade's vocal style to perfection {{cite journal}}: |format= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  6. ^ "Greg Poppleton - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  7. ^ Jazz, All About. "Greg Poppleton: Back In Your Own Backyard". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  8. ^ "Greg Poppleton". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  9. ^ Bob Rogers Show Greg Poppleton, retrieved 2018-04-12
  10. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_have_played_Narnia_characters
  11. ^ "Greg Poppleton". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  12. ^ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maple_Leaf_Rag_Title.jpg
  13. ^ Desk, BWW News. "THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF SCOTT JOPLIN to Play Glen Street Theatre". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 2018-04-12. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  14. ^ "CBAA Conference: Digital Dancing and Award Winners | radioinfo". www.radioinfo.com.au. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  15. ^ "2016 CBAA Finalists - Radio Today". Radio Today. 2016-07-26. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  16. ^ https://www.cbaa.org.au/article/phantom-dancer-new-crn
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