Career
Lee began his career in music at 16 years old as a programmer, sound engineer and music editor at Skratch Studios in Surrey where he worked with a range of artists including Boyzone, Tom Jones and José Carreras. During this period, he also engineered and programmed on a number of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical albums including Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and the motion picture versions of Evita and Phantom Of The Opera. In 2003 Lee re-located to Los Angeles, along with the Skratch Studios team, to work on the music for Season 2 of American Idol.
Lee departed Skratch Studios in 2005.
In 2007 Lee wrote and produced a large number of songs and cues for the Series 1 Digital Video Disc of Brian Elsley"s Channel 4 teen drama Skins. The show was nominated for best drama series at the 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
Lee has also written and produced television themes including Channel Five News and British Broadcasting Corporation Inside Sport as well as music for advertising campaigns with Adidas and Boots. In 2010 Lee produced a Live album of the stage musical Les Misérables.
More collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh followed with Lee producing albums of Mary Poppins, Betty Blue Eyes and The Mission Saigon Live London Cast Recording in 2014, which entered in the top 25 of the Official United Kingdom Album chart.
In 2013 Lee earned a grammy nomination for producing the Soundtrack Album of the Motion Picture of Les Misérables. The album sold over 2 million copies world wide, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Album Chart. The album also became the first Cast Recording to take the Official United Kingdom number 1 album position in 16 years, the last being the soundtrack of the motion picture Evita, on which Lee was a Music Editor and programmer.
In popular music, Lee has collaborated with songwriters including Camille Purcell, Paul Barry, Maegan Cottone, Tiffany Vartanyan, Tanya Lacey, Nina Nesbitt and The Vamps.
He produced the Debut album for 2011 X Factor contestant Janet Devlin (Running With Scissors) which reached number 1 on the Indie Breakers chart, and also co-wrote Janet"s single "House Of Cards". Other X Factor writes include the Marcus Collins song "Mercy" and the Andrea Faustini song "Give A Little Love".
