KATRINA

Former lead singer from the Grammy nominated band, Katrina and The Waves, Katrina now has a career both as a solo artist and with her new band. Katrina and The Waves had their first big break in 1984 when The Bangles covered their song ‘Going Down To Liverpool’. This drew attention to the group and lead to an international deal with Capitol Records. The band’s first album was produced by Scott Litt, who went on to produce REM and Nirvana. The first Capitol album, ‘Katrina & The Waves’ released in 1985, was a substantial critical and commercial success and ‘Walking on Sunshine’ was a worldwide hit earning top ten spots around the globe. (No.9 US, No.8 UK, No.3 Canada, No.4 Australia). Since then, the song has been broadcasted over 2,500,000 times in the U.S. and was the highest played track on radio in the Summer of 2008. Films featuring ‘Walking on Sunshine’ include:

– Ask Max (1986) Disney movie
– Secret of My Success (1987) Michael J Fox
– walking on the treadmill
– Look Who’s Talking(1989) danced to on-screen by John Travolta
– High Fidelity, (2000) danced to by Jack Black
– American Psycho (2000) with Christian Bale
– to tone down a dark event
– Daddy Day Care (2003) Eddie Murphy
– opening sequence

Katrina and The Waves’ song covers:

– Bangles ‘Going Down To Liverpool’ (1984)
– Dolly Parton ‘Walking on Sunshine’ on her Treasures album (1996)
– Celine Dion ‘That’s Just The Woman In Me’ (2008)
– Glee cast mash up of ‘Walking on Sunshine’ and Beyonce’s ‘Halo’ (2010)
– ‘Walking on Sunshine’ was recently featured on American Idol, X Factor and The Voice.

Follow Up singles:

– ‘Do You Want Crying’ was a top 40 hit in the US
– ‘Sun Street’ was a UK Top 30 hit in 1986.
– ‘That’s The Way’ reached No. 16 in the US charts in 1989
– from the album ‘Break of Hearts’.

The band toured worldwide with artists such as Wham, The Beach Boys, Don Henley, Pointer Sisters, Chaka Khan, The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Coolio and Run DMC and performed on the Fourth of July at The Mall, Washington DC to an audience of over 250,000 people, and at Madison Square Garden, The Marquee Club in London and CBGBs where Katrina sang with Joey Ramone. In 2014 Katrina joined the Retro Futura Tour of North America from august into September with Thompson Twins Tom Bailey, Howard Jones and others.