Joanna Stingray
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Joanna Stingray (Russian: Джоанна Стингрей Dzhoanna Stingrey, , born Joanna Fields, 1960, USA) is an American singer, actress, music producer and socialite. She was a key figure in popularising Soviet and Russian rock music and culture in the West in the 1980s.

Joanna Stingray is a native of Los Angeles, California. As a young musician, Stingray was a pop vocalist who released her U.S. 12-inch, 4-track debut, "Beverly Hills Brat" in 1983.

In 1984, aged 23, Stingray travelled to Leningrad as a tourist with her sister, who was studying in London had an opportunity to take a trip to visit the Soviet Union for one week. There she was introduced to Boris Grebenshchikov of the rock group Akvarium. Impressed by Grebenshchikov, and other artists' music, Stingray began smuggling the music of underground Soviet rock bands beyond the confines of the Soviet Union.

On July 27, 1986, Australian record company Big Time Records, released Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the Soviet Union, a double album consisting of songs collected and produced by Stingray. Each record side includes songs by one artist and the bands included are Akvarium, Kino, Alisa and Strannye Igry (Strange Games). It was the first release of Russian rock music in the United States. The record caught the attention of popular western arists, among them David Bowie and Andy Warhol. The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov also got to know about it; surprised that this music was published by a foreign company, he instructed the minister of culture to ease the publication of music of young Soviet musicians inside the country.