Nigel Collins
He was a founding member of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra (also featuring Bret McKenzie), recording and touring with the band in New Zealand, the UK and Australia from 2006 - 2013 and generating a series of best-selling EPs. He contributed lead vocals to their versions of Toto's Africa and Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad.
A new recording project with Wellington songwriting collective Congress of Animals began in 2016, with Fly My Pretties' Justin Firefly Clarke and Age Pryor (also from the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra) and Ben Lemi of Trinity Roots. Recordings from the project released in 2018 include his song Depends on you.
Other music collaborations include cello on Ed Sheeran's I See Fire, Fat Freddies Drop's Based On a True Story, Age Pryor's City Chorus and David Yetton's (The Stereo Bus) Blow out your candles.
His play Wheeler's Luck, co-written with actor Toby Leach and director Damon Andrews, was performed by Collins and Leach in New Zealand, the UK and Australia between 2004 and 2007, and has since become a staple of the New Zealand high school drama and youth theatre curriculum, with 50 schools mounting productions of the piece.
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