Stephanie Lee's Psycho Political Cabaret

Stephanie Lee has just finished recording her fourth CD release, "At The Edge Of The Rez," recorded at Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles, CA and mixed at Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, CA. Her CD release concert and tour will launch from San Francisco – date TBA!

Socio-political commentary, story-songs, and comedy tunes are Stephanie's specialty. Her online independent artist record company, Vigilante Muse Records, vigilantemusesociety.com, is deep evidence of her serious commitment to political activism as well as her lifelong passions for writing, singing and performing her music.

She often is compared to the late, great Nina Simone in her vocal quality, but that's just her low voice. She is also compared to Rickie Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morrisette, Ellen Mclwaine. But, Lee says, she doesn't want to sound like anyone else and it's true, there is no one like her (not yet anyway), but she does have many beautiful voices; and with that multi-textured vocal style and finely crafted songwriting she gives voice to many peoples' stories, all kinds if stories from all kinds of folks.

She has been blending these two passions of music and socio political activism into her life and it is forming her career in a whole new way. She admits that her life has politicized her to the bone, being a runaway abuse survivor at age thirteen who practiced pianos in churches from Vermont to Oregon. Becoming a Mother as a teenager and then becoming a single mother in her early twenties, and being poor, deepened her socio-political awareness into an exquisitely absurd edge that burst out in hilarious tunes like "White Picket Fence."

Stephanie has been an anti-war and anti-Nuclear activist, active over the years in local groups in Taos, New Mexico and in the past did benefits for the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (B.O.R.D.C, the Main Chapter out of Northhampton, Massachusetts). "I made a comitment to this organization after being surveiled and having my CD single release, "Get out the Bushes, Get out the Thieves" confiscated from my check-in luggage at JFK" and then being surveiled and having her business obstructed via the mail and email. That experience created an automatic focus on working to uphold the Bill of Rights.

"Yeah, You smarty pants Constitution mongers oughta get real and pay attention, quit whining 'bout your civilian rights and the Geneva convention..." A line from the satirical song "Why Should I Care," a song on her third album, "One Little Seed."

Her music – so says Sarah Meadows in the Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe, New Mexico – "...blends elements of folk, fragmented, honest folk, with luscious jazz and funk."