Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis, whose real name is Hugh Anthony Cregg III, (born July 5, 1950) is a musician and singer. He did lead vocals and played harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and The News, a popular rock group during the 1980s that was based in San Francisco, California. He also played with the band Clover in the early 1970s.
He attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, and spent one year at Cornell where he majored in engineering.
The band's third LP, Italic textSportsItalic text(1983), was one of the best-selling pop releases of the 1980s. It was followed up by another big seller, Italic textFore!Italic text(1986). In 1985, Lewis had a cameo role in the popular film "Back to the Future," and he had two songs on the soundtrack, including the hit "Power of Love."
In the mid-1990s he was in the movie "Short Cuts", and in 2000 he starred in "Duets" with Gwyneth Paltrow. In "Duets" he and Paltrow did a rendition of Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'".
His mother, Magda Cregg, was the partner of the poet Lew Welch.