"Walking on Sunshine" topped music charts worldwide in 1985, catapulting the British band Katrina and The Waves to stardom.
The song has since become a part of American pop culture, appearing in countless movies and TV shows. In 2010, a mashup of "Walking on Sunshine" with Beyonce's "Halo" performed by the cast of Glee reached the UK top ten.
Katrina and the Waves made records through the 1990s, mainly in Europe, but Katrina decided to leave the Waves in 1998.
Katrina Leskanich continues to perform, and last year recorded Blisland, her first solo album in over a decade.
Leskanich put together the songs on Blisland quickly, once she realized she needed some new material simply to keep up with other bands from the 1980s she was touring with, like Howard Jones and The Thompson Twins.
"I noticed that all of the other bands were coming with fresh, new material," Leskanich said, "and I thought okay, well, it's now or never, so I am going to go into a studio and record an album. I had a limited amount of time to do it, which I think worked really well for the album."
Katrina and her band perform this Sunday night at the Outer Space Ballroom in Hamden.
