Chris Trousdale

Christopher Ryan Trousdale (born June 11, 1985) is a solo pop singer, dancer, and actor. Trousdale was born in New Port Richey, Florida to a Greek American father and an Irish American mother.[1] He has performed in various Broadway shows including The Sound of Music and Les Miserables. He was also a member of the Broadway Kids (whose alumni include Christy Carlson Romano, Lacey Chabert and Greg Raposo), with whom he recorded several CDs. In 1999, he was chosen to be one of the five members of the teen boy band Dream Street (formerly known as 'Boy Wonder' -minus Matt, Frank, and Jesse-), created by Brian Lukow and Louie Baldonieri alongside Gregory Raposo, Matthew Ballinger, Frank Galasso, and Jesse McCartney. The group's debut album, released on Edel Records in July 2001, was #1 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums Chart in its first week of release and has gone on to sell a million copies nationwide. In 2002, the band broke up over a legal dispute between the group members and their parents. Trousdale pursued a solo career with the managers of Dream Street; he was soon signed to Columbia Records. However, the arrangement did not last long as Columbia wanted Trousdale to be a part of a new Dream Street boyband. That was something neither Trousdale nor his managers wanted, so he was dropped by Columbia Records in 2005. The Biggest Fan, co-starring Trousdale and Kaila Amariah, was released on home video and DVD in May 2005 (featuring original remastered Dream Street track "You're Taking Me Over" and remade tracks "I Miss You," "I Say Yeah," "This Time," and "Jennifer Goodbye" was released in 2002). Trousdale has been a big hit on Radio Disney via his duet hits with the girl group Play (a rendition of "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me") and solo artist Nikki Cleary (remake of the Grease track "You're the One that I Want"). However, shortly after his solo career started to take off, Trousdale put his career on hold in 2006 and moved back to Michigan to take care of his ailing mother. In 2009, Trousdale did an interview where he stated that an album was expected to drop the same year; however, it was never released. In 2012, Trousdale auditioned for The Voice On June 30, 2014, Trousdale announced via Twitter that he had joined the Spectra Music Group to work on his solo album. In 2015, Trousdale taught dance classes at Artworks Studio in Michigan. On February 2019, Trousdale announced via his social media accounts – repeated in his June 2019 interview on Famous Birthdays – that he planned to release an EP in August or September; however, no new EP nor album had been released by his death in June 2020. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.