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Sook-Yin Lee
Sook-Yin Lee (born in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a female Canadian musician, filmmaker, actor and media personality.
Lee was the lead singer in the 1990s for Bob's Your Uncle, a Vancouver alternative rock band. Lee often incorporated performance art techniques into the band's melodic rock. When that band broke up, Lee pursued a solo music career, releasing several solo albums and performing as an actor in theatre, film and television projects. She is now a singer for the band Slan.[1] Neko Case covered Lee's song "Knock Loud" on her 2001 EP Canadian Amp.
In 1995, Lee became a VJ for MuchMusic, bringing her theatrical and musical background and her unique creative perspective to the channel. She was best known as the host of MuchMusic's alternative music show, The Wedge. (Now a weekly show, The Wedge was a daily series when Lee hosted.)
After six years, she left MuchMusic in 2001. The following year, she was named as the new host of CBC Radio One's Saturday afternoon pop culture magazine, Definitely Not the Opera.
In 2003, she became the centre of controversy when the CBC threatened to fire her for taking a role in John Cameron Mitchell's sexually explicit film Shortbus, in which she performs unsimulated intercourse and masturbation on screen. When their position proved unpopular with the public[2], and celebrities such as director Francis Ford Coppola, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, actor Julianne Moore and artist and musician Yoko Ono rallied behind her, the CBC backed down.[3]
In the fall of 2004 she produced and hosted a documentary celebrating Terry Fox, as part of the CBC TV series The Greatest Canadian. Fox finished second in the voting to Tommy Douglas, whose advocate was another ex-MuchMusic VJ, George Stroumboulopoulos.
Lee has also stated that she is bisexual. In 1995, the day that sexual orientation was added to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by the Supreme Court of Canada, Lee celebrated the decision by kissing a woman on the air. [4] She later appeared on the cover of Xtra! in 1997.
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| Lavinia's Tongue (1994) | Wigs 'n Guns (1996) |
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| Green Dolphin Beat (1994) | Bad Company (1995) | Sliders (1995, TV series) | Boy Meets Girl (1998) | Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) | The Art of Woo (2001) | 3 Needles (2005) | Shortbus (2006) |
Notes
- ↑ Sumi, Glenn, (31 August 2006). Sook-Yin Lee (profile). nowtoronto.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-31.
- ↑ Stone, Jay Sook-Yin Lee's film debut definitely not CBC fare. The Ottawa Citizen (via Canada.com. URL accessed on 2006-07-24.
- ↑ Johnson, Brian D. Sook-Yin Lee shocker in Cannes. Macleans.com. URL accessed on 2006-07-24.
- ↑ Sheppard, Denise, (30 October 2001). "VJ looks back on her MuchMusic days". canoe.ca. Retrieved on 2007-03-11.
External links
- Sook-Yin Lee's profile as host of DNTO at CBC
- DigitalJournal article on Sook-Yin Lee
- Canadian University Press article from 2003 shortly after Sook-Yin Lee began hosting DNTO
- Sook-Yin Lee at the Internet Movie Database
- Toronto Life - Interview with Lee about Shortbus
- BBC Collective Shortbus feature including Sook-Yin Lee video interview
| This article is based on a GNU FDL LGBT Wikia article: Lee Sook-Yin Lee | LGBT |
