Anthony Field is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on May 8, 1963 in Kellyville, Oklahoma, United States. A founding participant of the children’s musical group The Wiggles who was named the 1999 Bachelor of the Year by Cleo Magazine.
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Field was born in Kellyville, New South Wales, Australia. He is the youngest of seven children, and grew up in north western Sydney. He came from a long line of musicians, especially the women in his family. His great-great aunt was “Queenie Paul”, known for performing at the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney, and his grandmother Kathleen accompanied silent movies in the mining town of Cobar. Field’s mother, Marie, made sure that all of her seven children learned how to play at least one musical instrument. He attended the all-boys boarding school St. Joseph’s College, which his great-grandfather Paddy Condon, an Italian immigrant and master stonemason, helped build. In 1979, while they were students at St. Joseph’s, he and his brothers Paul and John formed the pop group the Cockroaches.
He was inspired by his sister Colleen to study early childhood education, and became convinced that teaching preschool children “was my calling”. He was also attracted to the profession’s freedom, artistic nature, and lack of discipline, which was different from his experience in boarding school. Field put off university when the Cockroaches became successful, but he was dissatisfied with touring and plagued by “perhaps irrational, but very real, feelings of inadequacy and depression”. By his mid-twenties, he decided that he did not want to tour any longer, so he took two breaks. His first break was as an infantry soldier, medic, and rifleman in the 5th/7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Australia’s regular army from 1982 to 1985. He played the bagpipes in parades and on training missions, but ended his military service in July 1985 and suffered from a bad back as a result of his training. He also went backpacking in the U.K., listening to roots music, to children’s music by artists like Raffi, and to recordings of children’s books.
He got married to Michaela Patisteas in 2003. They have three children, who all appeared on stage in the band The Wiggles.
