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(1981 – 1999)

Katrina And The Waves were a successful, female-fronted, four piece band during the 19 and , built around the infectiously melodic, sixties-influenced songs of Kimberly Rew (former guitarist for The Soft Boys) and the distinctively powerful vocals of Katrina Leskanich. The group were best known for their evergreen, step-lightening 1985 hit single “Walking On Sunshine” and their landslide 1997 Eurovision Song Contest victory with the song “Love Shine a Light”. The band’s earliest incarnation was as the Waves, a group that played in and around Cambridge, England from 1975-77 and featured guitarist Kimberley Rew and drummer Alex Cooper.

This line up of the Waves never issued any recordings, and broke up when Rew left to join The Soft Boys, who left their mark as a twin guitar-led psychedelic rock quartet who in their short, commercially unsuccessful but influential existence managed to create an idiosyncratic canon, essentially two albums, A Can of Bees and Underwater Moonlight , based around the charmingly off-kilter songwriting of frontman Robyn Hitchcock, a whimsical Englishman in the Syd Barrett/Kevin Ayres mould, but out of step with the prevalent pub rock and punk of the time. Hitchcock has gone on to enjoy a cult solo career of steadily building success and now records and tours with the Minus Three, featuring REM’s Peter Buck.
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  • pkarollyne

    Katrina and the Waves ou Katrina & the Waves ?

    February 2012

  • AntonShangin

    Love Shine a Light <3

    November 2011

  • salnikoff

    Fry's favourite song=) [2]

    August 2011

  • syomkin

    Fry's favourite song=)

    November 2010

  • incultojurgis

    I'M WALKING ON SUNSHINE WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! The UK have lost it. I'm proud to be british but nit proud of our ESC record. 5 wins. What a waste.

    July 2010

  • janchik59

    coooooooooooooooooool!!

    June 2010

  • wanerness

    Love Shine A Light has to be our best ever Eurovision song bk in the days wen we still used to do good

    June 2010

  • Greentek

    im walking on sunshine wooooooooooo yeahh! :D

    April 2010
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