Artist
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis is a pop-rock artist from San Francisco, USA formed in 1979. 1 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop-Rock · San Francisco, USA · Best pop-rock albums
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- Releases
- 2000–2000
- Active years
- 1979
- Formed
Artist
Huey Lewis is a pop-rock artist from San Francisco, USA formed in 1979. 1 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop-Rock · San Francisco, USA · Best pop-rock albums
Huey Lewis (born Hugh Anthony Cregg III; July 5, 1950) is an American musician, songwriter, and actor. Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs. The band is perhaps best known for their third album, Sports, and their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Lewis previously played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979. Huey Lewis was born in New York City. His father, Hugh Anthony Cregg, Jr., MD, is an Irish American from Boston, and his mother, Maria Magdalena, was Polish, from Warsaw. Lewis was raised in Marin County, California, attending Strawberry Point Elementary School (where he skipped second grade) and Edna Maguire Junior High School in Mill Valley. When he was 13, his parents divorced and he attended and later graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, in 1967, where he achieved a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of the SAT. Lewis applied to and was accepted by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His mother entered a relationship with Beat Generation poet Lew Welch who became Lewis' stepfather. In an interview with D…
