Katrina and The Waves
The band's earliest incarnation was as The Waves, a group that played in and around Cambridge, England from 1975-77 and featured guitarist Kimberley Rew and drummer Alex Cooper. This incarnation of the Waves never issued any recordings, and broke up when Rew left to join the Soft Boys.
Cooper gigged with a number of bands before joining the pop/soul cover band Mama's Cookin' in 1979. This group was in fact just about to break up when Cooper contacted them -- he had heard from a friend about "a young girl with very long hair and a good voice" who fronted the band (i.e., Katrina Leskanich), and Cooper was interested in working with her. All the members of Mama's Cookin' were, at this point, Americans...
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