Welcome, Music Lovers!  Here we are, in the SEVENTH Women Music March!  I hope you are looking forward to the next 31 days of music by creative female singers, songwriters, instrumentalists, and band leaders.  

Not sure why I didn’t make one before, but please notice the new banner.  Now … here we go!

Nederlands: Katrina Leskanich tijdens Het Grote Songfestivalfeest in het Ziggo Dome 15 december 2019

I thought at the time (in the 80s) no one would ever want to hear this music again as I thought a lot of it was quite pompous and took itself way too seriously. The same as for the clothes! Now it’s just nice for me that people still want to hear it and I kinda like a lot more of the music more than I used to. I was a bit of a snob and thought only the old music of the ’60s and ’70s was any good. These days ’80s music IS the old music. Ha, ha! –Katrina, from interview on OldSchool80s

Katrina Elizabeth Leskanich (b. 4/10/60) is an American-born, UK-based singer and musician and the former lead singer of the British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves. She was born in Topeka, KS. Her father was a Vietnam Veteran who became a colonel in the US Air Force. Katrina and her five siblings (four sisters and one brother) moved frequently as children. The family arrived in the United Kingdom in 1976.  She graduated from RAF Lakenheath high school in 1978.

Mama’s Cookin’, a pop cover band from Feltwell, Norfolk, England, was founded in 1978. It featured Leskanich on vocals and keyboards, Vince de la Cruz on vocals and lead guitar, and Marcos de la Cruz on drums. By late 1980, Alex Cooper had joined the band on drums, with Bob Jakins on bass. Mama’s Cookin’ proceeded to gig steadily in England over the next two years, specializing in covers of songs by American acts.

In 1981, singer-songwriter Kimberley Rew joined Mama’s Cookin’, and the five-piece group was quickly renamed The Waves after a band Rew and Cooper had been in together in the mid-1970s. Rew initially fronted the Waves. However, over the first year of the Waves’ existence, Rew began to write material for Leskanich to sing, and she was soon the primary vocalist. 

Katrina and the Waves broke up in 1999. In 1999, Leskanich launched a solo career. She released her first solo CD, Katrina Leskanich, through Universal Records in Britain in 2005.

Katrina and the Waves had 12 studio albums, 7 Best Of albums, and 27 singles.

Katrina has had 8 solo albums, 6 compilation albums, and 9 singles, as well as 5 “other appearances.”

artist’s official website

source:  wikipedia