Katrina and the Waves

Making no apparent effort to deflect attention from the dispute, the newly-dubbed Katrina and the Nameless failed to qualify directly from the fourth semi-final of the competition, and were eventually eliminated in a 'second-chance semi'. In 2000, the techno-dance group "Stars on 54 (Amber)" remade "If You Could Read My Mind" with a slight 'dance' beat to the background. The group originally planned to claim the mantle of what had gone before by calling themselves Katrina and the New Wave, but the apparent displeasure of the original 'Waves' led to an abrupt name-change. In 1968, Canadian rockers "The Guess Who" wrote a tune about Lightfoot entitled "Lightfoot", which includes references to Lightfoot's songs. Years after the original band split up, Katrina formed a new group in an attempt to repeat her Eurovision triumph for an entirely different country - they were participants in the 2005 Melodifestivalen, the competition to select Sweden's entry for the song contest. Gordon Lightfoot is also a member of the Order of Ontario, the highest award in the province of Ontario. In the United States, they had a hit single called Walking on Sunshine which is still played on most '80s radio stations. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1986, the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2001, and in May 2003 was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest honour.

Reacting to the group's Eurovision victory, with the song "Love Shine A Light", Katrina said it was the second landslide victory in a week -- Tony Blair had won the British general election two days previously. Lightfoot has received 15 Juno Awards and been nominated for 5 Grammy Awards. Their lead guitarist is Kimberley Rew, formerly of the Soft Boys. He later returned to the music business with the album Harmony and an appearance on Canadian Idol. They are an American/British band formed in 1981 in Cambridge, England, and were fronted by American singer Katrina Leskanich until she left the group in 1999. Fall 2002, Lightfoot suffered a near-fatal abdominal hemorrhage, which caused him to go into a comatose state for a short period of time. Katrina and the Waves was the name of the band which won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom on 3rd May 1997. In June of 1974, his single, "Sundown", went to No.1 on the American charts.

He is one of the first Canadian popular singers who achieved real stardom in his own country instead of moving to the United States. In 1966, he released his debut album, Lightfoot. He returned to Canada by the 1960s and performed in coffee houses on the Toronto folk scene. He moved to Los Angeles, California during the 1950s where he studied at Hollywood's Westlake College of Music.

Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. (O.C., C.M.), O.ont. (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian folk singer, composer and lyricist. Gordon Meredith Lightfoot C.C. 9, 2004.