{"id":129801,"date":"2025-11-04T12:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=129801"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:54:53","slug":"qa-with-dee-c-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=129801","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A With Dee C. Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=129801\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=129801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-129802 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dee-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dee-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dee-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dee-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dee-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dee.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Exclusive Interview by Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photo Credit: Ki Price<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dee C. Lee is a British singer who worked with Wham! on \u201cClub Tropicana\u201d and \u201cBad Boys\u201d. In 1984 she released her first solo single &#8220;Selina Wow Wow\u201d: a song I love! In May 1983 she teamed up with The Style Council and her voice can be heard on songs like \u201cMoney Go Round\u201d, \u201cHeadstart For Happiness\u201d, \u201cIt Didn\u2019t Matter\u201d, \u201cThe Lodgers\u201d, \u201cWalls Come Tumbling Down\u201d, and \u201cShout to the Top\u201d. Her latest album \u201cJust Something\u201d was released last year to critical acclaim.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Did you always want to be a singer growing up?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actually no &#8211; I\u2019d always fancied myself as more of a musician &#8211; especially when I was listening to a lot of Jazz \/ Funk instrumental album tracks when I was growing up. Laziness quite frankly scuppered those ambitions fairly quickly when I discovered I could hit those notes vocally. Singing was definitely the discipline that came most naturally to me.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: You were a backing singer for Wham! and appeared in a few of their videos. How did you meet and what was it like working with George and Andrew?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I met the guys via a record company meeting. At the time Innversion had just signed a new band called Wham!. The band already had x2 guys and x1 girl (you may have already heard of them) and were looking for one more female vocalist to complete the band vision. Working with Wham wasn\u2019t like working at all! We were all so young and so excited about the whole process we found ourselves in. I didn\u2019t realize back then how special this time would become &#8211; because we were all so caught up in making the music and videos. None of us had ever done anything like that before and we loved all of it! It definitely didn\u2019t feel like working.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: You released your hit &#8220;Selena Wow Wow&#8221; in 1984. I love the song. I always wondered who Selena was?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Great question! Thanks for that &#8211; as this was my very first solo single released on my first record deal ever!. Selena Wow Wow was a made up character &#8211; back in those early days I was still exploring my songwriting abilities. At the time of writing Selena Wow Wow I had also written See The Day (which was probably one of\u00a0 the first or second tracks I wrote in my fledgling songwriting career). Selena Wow Wow was a happy pop song &#8211; and I was inspired by a lot of the pop music around at the time. A lot of the people making this music were people I was friends with, it was a bit of a scene at that time. The song is about a girl called Selena who\u2019s a WOW! (And the life and soul of the party) &#8211; inspired by quite a few of the people on the scene I knew at the time.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: You started working with The Style Council in 1984. You were married to Paul Weller. How did you meet and what is your fondest memory working with The Style Council?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I first got a call from Paul Weller via the Musicians Union to go and meet him at the original Solid Bond studios in Marble Arch as he was in the process of putting together a new band. That&#8217;s where I met Steve White and Mick Talbot for the first time. Working as part of The Style Council was the change that I needed after working with Wham! as I was given the opportunity to grow a lot more as a vocalist. So many great memories &#8211; it\u2019s difficult to whittle it down to one! But at a push, shooting the video in Poland for Walls Come Tumbling Down was pretty awesome and of course performing at Live Aid &#8211; but trust me there\u2019s so many more!!!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Are there any artists out there you would love to collaborate with or you wished you had?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are still so many great artists out there!!<\/p>\n<p>I would have loved to work with Chaka Khan &#8211; I\u2019ve been a huge admirer of her work forever. I\u2019d also love to work with some of the Artists I\u2019m listening to right now such as : Carmy Love, Abi Farrell, Emma Noble, Mama Terra, Stone Foundation and Blue Lab Beats<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: I let you make an album with 7 of your most favorite songs (not your own): What songs would you pick and why?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Oh that&#8217;s easy &#8211; it would be classics!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Anita Baker \u2013 \u201cCaught Up In The Rapture\u201d &#8211; which I\u2019ve been relistening to on my recent holiday. Just a beautiful ballad!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chaka Khan \u2013 \u201cStay\u201d &#8211; I love songs with stories and highs and lows and this one hits all the right notes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lucy Pearl \u2013 \u201cWithout You\u201d &#8211; again just a beautiful track.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lonnie Liston Smith \u2013 \u201cExpansions\u201d &#8211; I had the honour of working with Lonnie on Guru\u2019s Jazzmatazz project &#8211; and always loved his work. This one is a particular favorite<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gang Starr \u2013 \u201cYou Know My Steez\u201d &#8211; I listened to a lot of early hip hop back in the day. Gang Starr particularly stood out for me as one of the best in my humble opinion. I loved the way they blended Jazz with Hip Hop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Earth Wind &amp; Fire \u2013 \u201cJupiter\u201d \u2013 it\u2019s a hand banger of a track &#8211; and definitely one to play a lot of \u2018Air Sax\u2019 too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Change \u2013 \u201cGlow of Love\u201d &#8211; a great track and I love how you can hear the early vocals of Luther Vandross here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: Your album &#8220;Just Something&#8221; was released last year and received critical acclaim. How did that process go?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the screening of the Sky Arts documentary \u2019The Style Council\u2019 I ran into a very old friend of mine called Eddie Piller of Acid Jazz Records and he asked me if I was still making music and if<br \/>\nI would like to make some more. I\u2019m always writing and had quite a few tracks ready to go in the pipeline and I loved the challenge of coming up with a few new ones &#8211; especially as \u201cJust Something\u201d is quite stylised. On signing to Acid Jazz, they hooked me up with the amazing producer Sir Tristan Longworth, who pulled in an incredible team of musicians. We went on to record the album at Tristan&#8217;s studio over the course of a couple of months.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>KB: What are you currently up to?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Currently I\u2019m enjoying a few quiet moments at home while regrouping after last year\u2019s album release and live UK tour. Having finished all the songs in my repertoire (so to speak), I\u2019ve been working on new songs and looking into a few new project options which I\u2019m really excited about!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Check out Dee\u2019s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeclee.com\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpforms-container wpforms-container-full\" id=\"wpforms-126533\"><form id=\"wpforms-form-126533\" class=\"wpforms-validate wpforms-form wpforms-ajax-form\" data-formid=\"126533\" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" action=\"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F129801\" data-token=\"657dcd84187d84d6524d05c85ad247bb\" data-token-time=\"1777667042\"><noscript class=\"wpforms-error-noscript\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.<\/noscript><div class=\"wpforms-field-container\"><div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-name\" data-field-id=\"1\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\">Name <span class=\"wpforms-required-label\">*<\/span><\/label><div class=\"wpforms-field-row wpforms-field-medium\"><div class=\"wpforms-field-row-block wpforms-first wpforms-one-half\"><input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1\" class=\"wpforms-field-name-first wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][1][first]\" required><label for=\"wpforms-126533-field_1\" class=\"wpforms-field-sublabel after\">First<\/label><\/div><div class=\"wpforms-field-row-block wpforms-one-half\"><input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-last\" class=\"wpforms-field-name-last wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][1][last]\" required><label for=\"wpforms-126533-field_1-last\" class=\"wpforms-field-sublabel after\">Last<\/label><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_2-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-email\" data-field-id=\"2\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_2\">Email <span class=\"wpforms-required-label\">*<\/span><\/label><input type=\"email\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_2\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium wpforms-field-required\" name=\"wpforms[fields][2]\" spellcheck=\"false\" required><\/div>\t\t<div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_4-container\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-text\"\n\t\t\tdata-field-type=\"text\"\n\t\t\tdata-field-id=\"4\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t<label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_4\" >Email or Name<\/label>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" id=\"wpforms-126533-field_4\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium\" name=\"wpforms[fields][4]\" >\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"wpforms-126533-field_3-container\" class=\"wpforms-field wpforms-field-textarea\" data-field-id=\"3\"><label class=\"wpforms-field-label\" for=\"wpforms-126533-field_3\">Comment or Message<\/label><textarea id=\"wpforms-126533-field_3\" class=\"wpforms-field-medium\" name=\"wpforms[fields][3]\" ><\/textarea><\/div><script>\n\t\t\t\t( function() {\n\t\t\t\t\tconst style = document.createElement( 'style' );\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle.appendChild( document.createTextNode( '#wpforms-126533-field_4-container { position: absolute !important; 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