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Katrina Leskanich (born April 10, 1960, Topeka, Kansas, United States) is an American musician and actress. She was a lead vocalist for the Canadian depending band Katrina and the Waves (1983-1998), which had an international hit using Walking inside Sunshine in 1985, and won a Eurovision Song Contest 1997 for the United Kingdom with Love Shine a Weak, which likewise attend there is no Ternary in the UK stock and index charts.

Katrina has as well tried her hand as a DJ for BBC Radio 2. She was an army brat and reluctantly moved from Suffolk, England on the advice of Alex Cooper. Since 1979, she had been within the class action known as Mama's Cookin' which toured US Air Force bases.

Inside 2004, she appeared on the Eurovision Song Contest edition of The Weakest Link. Her fellow contestants involved a likes of Sonia, Jessica Garlick and Jemini. Katrina managed to email a final in which she was beaten by her friend Nikki French.

Katrina continues to perform solo, & has upright released her 1st Video since a split by using a Waves. Inside early 2005, she formed the freshly band within the startling bid to repeat her Eurovision triumph for a different united states. Katrina & a Unnamed' song When Whenever Tomorrow Might Never Came was one of a entries in the 4th semi-semi of the Melodifestivalen - Sweden's national pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv - but failed to qualify directly for the final, & was definitively eliminated the as punishment day around a '2nd risk semi'. A class action's outre title was a information to the endure-microscopic shedding of the original guide Katrina & the Just released Wave, resulting opposition from either members of the original 'Waves'.

Inside mid-2005 she was quoted in the New York Times reacting to a fact she shares a title sustaining the hurricane that devastated New Orleans, Louisiana, and neighboring states in the southeast a portion of the United States: A MSNBC news program Countdown with Keith Olbermann dubbed its coverage of the hurricane "Katrina and the waves".

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Home of the original vocalist with Katrina and The Waves. Features pictures, discography, and gig dates.


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