Kimberley Rew

Kimberley Charles Rew (born 3 December 1951) is an English rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Rew's 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.

He was a member of Katrina and the Waves from 1981 to 1999 and of Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys from 1978 to 1981.

For Katrina and the Waves, he wrote "Walking on Sunshine" and "Love Shine a Light".

In 1981, the Soft Boys' leader 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.

From 1988 through to 2004, he was a guest member of the Cambridge band The Lonely.

He played on three albums, Underground (1989), Rarer Gifts (1998) and Live (2000).

The latter was performed as the United Kingdom's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, taking the country to its first victory in the contest since 1981.

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, Leskanich left the band to pursue a solo career.

Rew continued to write, record and release solo albums.

His wife Lee Cave-Berry had previously joined in 2000.

Rew and his wife also perform as a duo called Kim and Lee.

In 2001 Rew reunited and toured with Robyn Hitchcock, bassist Matthew Seligman, and Morris Windsor for the Soft Boys' re-release of their 1980 album Underwater Moonlight.

The following year they recorded and released a new album, Nextdoorland, which was accompanied by a short album of outtakes, Side Three.

Rew joined the Cambridge band Jack in 2004.