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Huey Lewis was born in New York City. [1] His father, Hugh Anthony Cregg Jr., was an Irish-American from Boston, and his mother, Maria Magdalena Barcinska, was Polish, from Warsaw. [2] [3] His grandfather, Hugh Cregg, was district attorney of Essex County, Massachusetts, from 1931 to 1959. [4]
Huey Lewis & The News performing at Snoqualmie Casino in 2016. Huey Lewis and the News are an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually achieving 19 top ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts.
Sound Hole was the major local competition to Huey's band Clover. After Sound Hole, Colla was enlisted as sax man/arranger with Sly and the Family Stone, recording and touring with Sly for a few years. In the late 1970s, Sound Hole and Clover alumni merged to form a new group, the American Express, which later became known as Huey Lewis and the ...
Huey Lewis and the News have sold over 30 million albums worldwide and are ranked in the top 200 selling groups of all time by the Recording Industry Association of America. Three of their albums, Sports , Fore! , and Small World have been certified platinum (which in the United States market is equivalent to one million units sold).
In 1979, the band's name was Huey Lewis and the American Express. Under this name they released a single and secured their recording contract with Chrysalis Records at the end of the year. The album was recorded within three weeks and the producer was Bill Schnee , who had produced for Boz Scaggs and Pablo Cruise .
Huey Lewis (born 1950), American musician and singer; Jayce Lewis (born 1984), Welsh Musician/Solo Artist; Jeannie Lewis (born 1945), Australian musician; Jeffrey Lewis (born 1975), American singer/songwriter; Jenny Lewis (born 1976 or 1977), American singer; Jerry Lee Lewis (1935–2022), American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist
Huey Lewis is getting candid about his ongoing health complications, specifically his inability to hear music anymore. The 73-year-old musician—who long fronted the band Huey Lewis & The News ...
The following is a list of all songs recorded by Huey Lewis and the News.. The table lists each song title by Huey Lewis and the News, the songwriters for each song, the album or soundtrack on which the song first appeared, and the year in which the song was released.