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Katrina and the Waves
Katrina and the Waves
British-American rock band
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The Soft Boys
The Soft Boys
British proto-punk and power-pop band
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Katrina Leskanich
Katrina Leskanich
US musician, actress
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Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Anton Barbeau
Anton Barbeau
American musician
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Don Airey
Don Airey
English keyboardist, rock musician
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The Vibrators
The Vibrators
band that plays punk rock
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Tim Keegan
Tim Keegan
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Jon Brion
Jon Brion
American musician
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Johnny Hates Jazz
Johnny Hates Jazz
British band
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21. Peron
21. Peron
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Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce
Scottish musician, bassist of Cream
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Harry Wayne Casey
Harry Wayne Casey
American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer
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Peter Buck
Peter Buck
guitarist for R.E.M., songwriter, record producer
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Cathal Dunne
Cathal Dunne
Irish singer
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Carl Wilson
Carl Wilson
American musician; original member of The Beach Boys (1946-1998)
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Russell Hitchcock
Russell Hitchcock
Australian singer
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Scooch
Scooch
band
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KC and the Sunshine Band
KC and the Sunshine Band
American disco and funk band
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Terry Edwards
Terry Edwards
British musician
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The Bangles
The Bangles
American pop rock band
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Benny Andersson
Benny Andersson
Swedish musician, composer, record producer
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Wind
Wind
German band
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Grant-Lee Phillips
Grant-Lee Phillips
American musician
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Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
rock supergroup led by Ringo Starr
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Jack Casady
Jack Casady
American bass player
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The Fallout Club
The Fallout Club
British band
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Toto Cutugno
Toto Cutugno
Italian recording artist; musician, songwriter, record producer
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Antony Costa
Antony Costa
musician and actor
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Bobby G
Bobby G
British singer
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The Roop
The Roop
Lithuanian pop band
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Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett
English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (1946-2006)
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Bruce Johnston
Bruce Johnston
American singer, musician
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Nicola Hitchcock
Nicola Hitchcock
British Singer
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Mike Love
Mike Love
American singer, songwriter, member of the Beach Boys
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Mick Ronson
Mick Ronson
English guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and record producer
Kimberley Rew
English composer, songwriter and musician

Kimberley Rew

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English composer, songwriter and musician
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Kimberley Rew (born 3 December 1951) is an English rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as a member of Katrina and the Waves from 1981 to 1999 and of Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys from 1978 to 1981. Two of his better-known compositions, both written for Katrina and the Waves, are "Walking on Sunshine" and "Love Shine a Light", performed by Katrina and the Waves as the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, taking the country to its first victory in the contest since 1981.

His family is from Bristol and moved house several times during his boyhood before he arrived at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1971, and settled in that city. After a brief excursion into archaeology at West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village and gaining a degree in archaeology from Cambridge, Rew formed the Waves with Alex Cooper in 1975, before joining the Soft Boys in 1978, recording the A Can of Bees and Underwater Moonlight albums.

In 1981, Robyn Hitchcock began his solo career; Rew and Cooper joined with Katrina Leskanich and Vince de la Cruz to form Katrina and the Waves. The group survived a slow career climb by tours of RAF bases and Canadian club gigs, then teamed up with the producers Pat Collier and Scott Litt to record Rew's compositions "Going Down to Liverpool", covered by The Bangles, and, in 1985, "Walking on Sunshine", which became the group's first and biggest hit.

In 1997, Katrina and the Waves won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with the Rew composition "Love Shine a Light".

In 1999, Katrina began her solo career. Rew continued to write, record and release solo albums.

From 1988 through to 2004, Rew was a guest member with the Cambridge band The Lonely. He played on four albums, Underground (1989), Rarer Gifts (1998) and Live (2000).

In 2001 Rew reunited and toured with Robyn Hitchcock, bassist Matthew Seligman, and Morris Windsor for the Soft Boys' re-release of their best-known album, 1980's Underwater Moonlight. The following year they recorded and released a new album, Nextdoorland, which was accompanied by a short album of outtakes, Side Three. The reunion was short-lived.

Celine Dion recorded the Rew composition "That's Just the Woman in Me" in 2007.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Rew completed a project to walk or cycle the coast of England and Wales and another to walk or cycle all of their navigable waterways.

Rew joined the Cambridge band Jack in 2004 (his wife Lee Cave-Berry had previously joined in 2000) and they are both still playing with the band (as of 2020). Rew and his wife also perform as a duo called Kim and Lee.