# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katrina-leskanich
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:59:20.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katrina-leskanich"
name: "Katrina Leskanich"
slug: "katrina-leskanich"
description: "Katrina Elizabeth Leskanich is an UK-based, American singer and musician and the former lead singer of the British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves. Their song \"Walking on Sunshine\" was an international hit in 1985. In 1997, the band won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with the song \"Love Shine a Light\". Both songs were written by Leskanich's long-term bandmate Kimberley Rew."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katrina_Leskanich_in_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-04-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Лесканич, Катрина"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump