Tru Collins

Tru Collins is an American singer and actress. She was raised in New Jersey but moved into New York City as a teenager to study musical theater at Manhattan's Professional Performing Arts School, while studying ballet with School of American Ballet's Elaine Kudo of ABT. Collins began college with a songwriting scholarship from Universal and studied at NYU and New School University in New York City. As an actor, Collins has guest starred on Showtime's Masters of Sex with Michael Sheen and reccured as Julie on MTV's original high school comedy Awkward since 2012. As a singer, she performed with Grammy-winning soul singer Latrice Varrett, opening for Aretha Franklin at the Nokia Theatre Times Square in 2009. In 2010, she joined Atlantic's multi-platinum progressive rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra as a vocalist, touring arenas across North America and promoting the band performing acoustic quitar/vocal solos live on numerous rock radio stations. That year, TSO reached #12 on the Billboard chart for American Arena Tours, beating Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. The tour grossed $47,395,108 and sold out 51 arenas. She has co-written songs with Rostrum Records artist Vali and 3 Six Mafia's Juicy J, and her work has been featured on various recordings and television soundtracks. In 2012, Collins performed with DJ Ravi Drums, Kitara player Craig Dobbin, and rapper Wes Period at the Air Canada Center Arena in Toronto Canada. Her debut solo EP, Story of A Gypsy Child, produced by her longtime friend and music-partner Jonny on the Rocks from Toronto. Her music video for the first single, Party Dress, was released via Youtube in the beginning of 2014.