Joanne Catherall

Joanne Catherall
Joanne Catherall
	Catherall performing in 2008
Background information
Born	18 September 1962
Origin	Sheffield, England
Genres	Synth-pop; new wave; electronic;
Occupation(s)	Singer
Years active	1980–present
Labels	Virgin; A&M; EastWest; Papillon; Wall of Sound;
Member of	The Human League

Joanne Catherall (born 18 September 1962) is an English singer who is one of two female vocalists in the English synth-pop band The Human League.

In 1980, when Catherall had just turned 18 and was still at school doing A levels, she and her best friend Susan Ann Sulley were discovered in Sheffield's Crazy Daisy Nightclub by Philip Oakey, the lead singer and a founding member of the Human League. At his invitation, the pair then joined Oakey as he formed a new and subsequently commercially successful line-up of the band, following the acrimonious departure of two other founding members of the band.

Catherall has remained in the band ever since, and is a joint business partner in the band (along with Oakey and Sulley), which continues to perform today.

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