Dee C. Lee
| Dee C. Lee | |
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| Birth name | Diane Catherine Sealy |
| Born |
6 June 1961 Balham, south London, UK |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1981–present |
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Dee C. Lee (born Diane Catherine Sealy, 6 June 1961) is a British soul, R&B and pop singer who during her career was a backing singer for Wham! and The Style Council, and is a solo artist.
Lee was a backing vocalist for the pop group Wham! in the early 1980s, but she left the group to work as a solo artist and also to join Paul Weller's band, The Style Council. She was later married to Weller for ten years (but now divorced), they have two children, Leah and Natt.
Prior to leaving Wham!, Lee appeared as herself in the band's video for their song "Club Tropicana".
Following her departure from Wham!, Lee released her first solo single, "Selina Wow Wow", in 1983. Despite considerable airplay, the single failed to reach the UK Singles Chart. In 1984, she then worked with The Style Council and appeared on their debut album Café Bleu (released as My Ever Changing Moods in North America). Lee can be heard on the tracks "Headstart for Happiness", "It Didn't Matter", "The Lodgers", "Walls Come Tumbling Down", and "Shout to the Top", Lee continued to record solo material during this time, but singles "Yippee Yi Yay!" and "Don't Do It Baby" failed to chart.
In 1985, after the release of the second Style Council album Our Favourite Shop, and a stint working with the band Animal Nightlife, Lee released another solo single; the self-penned ballad "See the Day". The single became a hit and peaked at No. 3 in the UK chart in December 1985, selling a quarter of a million copies in the UK alone, and earning Lee a silver disc. Twenty years later, the song was covered by Girls Aloud, their version peaking at No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart in December 2005. Her follow-up singles, a cover of Judie Tzuke's "Come Hell Or Waters High" and "Hold On" failed to make the UK Top 40. All tracks were featured on her 1986 album Shrine.
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