Katrina Leskanich
Katrina Leskanich ( born April 10, 1960 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American singer who was particularly known as frontwoman and lead vocalist of the band Katrina and the Waves.
With Katrina and the Waves Leskanich succeeded in 1985, the breakthrough with the song Walking on Sunshine. On 3 May 1997, she won for the United Kingdom the Euro Vision Song Contest with the title Love Shine a Light.
Leskanich was born the daughter of a USAF colonel in Topeka, Kansas. There she grew up with five brothers and sisters, until the family moved to Europe. After a few years in Germany and the Netherlands Leskanich 1976 came to London, where she still lives today.
After her exit with Katrina and the Waves in 1998, she had four years of a daily, multi -hour evening broadcast on radio station BBC Radio 2, and sang in the musical " Leader of the Pack " by Ellie Greenwich the lead role.
In 2005, Leskanich a new band hoping to be able to build on their success at the Song Contest, but for another country: In 2005, she took part in the Melodifestival, the Swedish preliminary decision. Originally they were called Katrina and the New Wave, but the discontent of the former band members led to an abrupt change of name. When Katrina and the Nameless they reached the by Thomas G: son -written song As if tomorrow will never come in third place in the fourth semi-final and therefore not qualified for the finals, but for the " Second Chance " round in which they ended up in sixth place and thus did not reach the final. In 2005, she hosted along with Renārs Kaupers, the band leader of the Latvian band Brainstorm the anniversary show Congratulations on the 50th anniversary of the Euro Vision Song Contest. 2006 saw the solo CD " Katrina Leskanich ".
2012-2013 is Katrina Leskanich again increased to meet with new own band at concerts. Especially Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Norway as well as individual concerts in Belgium, Spain and Germany were on the tour calendar. In October 2013, it was the Steinegg Live Festival.