DISCOGRAPHY

About Stephanie Lee/Singer /Songwriter

“My life as an artist comes from my life as a human being,” says Stephanie Lee. And this is a woman who takes her humanity seriously. She credits her experiences as a young runaway, an abuse and sexual abuse survivor. The people she met on the streets, in the woods and in her life as a working poor, single mother, all shaped her music and artistry.

Not without risks, not without struggle, not without controversy, Stephanie Lee has over 500 songs to her credit. Many of the songs about the people on the invisible side of the socio/economic/political spectrum. As a woman artist and a working poor, single mother in the 1990s, Lee observed racism, misogyny and poverty thriving in the USA. She said, “Raising my children grew my soul and the soul of my music. It also politicized me immensely.” Songs like “THE OLD MANS STORIES” Is the title track from her 2nd CD Album release; is a talking/singing/story song: about a man that she met on a bus to Oregon. It was as real as it gets, “His oxygen tubes and tank come hissing up the aisle” and “What Did He Know”is also on the “Old Mans Stories” CD Album: about a Vietnam Vet’s effort to find peace in his life.

In the Santa Fe Reporter, Sarah Meadows said, “Lee is unapologetically a feminist, but above all, she’s assertively human. Her music blends elements of folk – fragmented, honest folk – with luscious jazz and funk.” Lee’s third release, “One Little Seed – Songs from the Psycho-Political Cabaret is a collection of “songs sung with a twist of wicked glee.” Deonne Kahler of The Taos News says “There’s definitely a lot of that on this jazzy, dramatic, funky politico-folk album!”

One of her socio/political/musical risks taught more than she wanted to know about the Bush administration’s “Patriot Act.” Living in Toronto, Canada in 2002 to record “The Old Man’s Stories” with Juno Award winning producer, Norman Barker. After the main cd project was over, she still had a relentless urge “to get something off my chest.” She recorded the CD single, “Get Out the Bushes, Get Out the Thieves,” and later had a stack of the CDs confiscated at JFK International Airport by airport security. She also had her website “messed with” and the family landline phone bugged. The USPO mail and emails were often "lost." It was a valuable lesson and one that is a gift that keeps on giving. There’s a myriad of perspectives to glean from- in the search for understanding of the “bigger picture” in the socio/political world.

“Never one to be silenced, Lees’ 3rd CD album release: “ONE LITTLE SEED” she says “that she recorded all the tunes that got me in trouble... and then some.” For the former 13-year-old runaway, who learned to play piano by sneaking into empty churches, for the former single mom who bought a new piano even though her car door closed with a bungee cord, it must be tremendously gratifying to see four of those songs nominated for New Mexico Music Awards.” One of them, “Rachel Corrie” won for Best Vocal Performance. Several theater companies approached Lee for the theatrical rights. "Rachel Corrie" and was used as the poignant opening song in the play "Messages from Rachel," performed by Teatro Paraguas at the Santa Fe Museo de Cultural.

 BIO:
Award winning singer-songwriter Stephanie Lee has always lived on the bustling corner of 33rd and Crazy Creative Avenue. The life she lived as a woman child, single mother, abuse survivor, as well as being a carrier of a heapin’ helpin’ of PTSD, educated and politicized her to the bone.

Winning a New Mexico Music Awards (NMMA) award for her song about Rachel Corrie and being nominated by the Hollywood Music In Media Awards for her song “Yeah Baby I’m Cold” furthered her resolve to tell stories about people who often get left behind, overlooked, and most often, righteously ignored.

Her life was: raising children, being a working single mother, managing to engage and create her own kind of healing psychological help, learning EFT Tapping in 2000, and becoming a Certified EFT Practitioner in 2010.

Part of Lee’s dance-walk on the jagged path as a writer was getting human-real and doing hospice work as well as working way too hard in the other real-world for way too little.

Meanwhile, the other cray-cray independent woman artist in the house was writing, playing the piano, singing and performing genre-resistant music, composing, recording, and putting out five CDs while fighting the army of the stalwart whoooda who’s and of course eating stigmas for breakfast. She did it with her music and now she’s gone and done it with her DIY self-help book, “A Crazy Woman’s Guide to Managing Crazy.”

Now, She is Joyfully doing the do: Managing Stephanie Lee’s Living Breathing Music Catalogue and Spread the Bread Publishing , visiting wonderfully adult children and precious grandchildren, writing women’s books, and living her elder life on the high plains desert in northern New Mexico with the other bear in the cave, a flock of country pigeons, quail, desert rabbits, and one wild and mischievous puppy named Theo and his elder dog compadre , Mr.Mcree.