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Huey Lewis, whose real name is Hugh Anthony Cregg III, (born July 5, 1950) is a musician and singer. He does lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and The News, a rock group based in San Francisco, California that was particularly popular during the 80s. He also played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979.
He attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, and spent one year at Cornell University where he majored in engineering.
The band's third LP, Sports (1983), was one of the best-selling pop releases of the 1980s. It was followed up by another big seller, Fore! (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 "The 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.
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