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Lee Mulhern (born 12 June 1988) now known as Lee Matthews is an Irish singer-songwriter. Starting age 8, Lee Mulhern (his birth name) had performed as a child star prodigy covering pop and country songs on many Irish and UK radio and television shows. At age 17, he had embarked on a series of music projects like Streetwize, Streetside and Access All Areas, in a bid to be launched as an "international boy band" made up of singers from various nationalities. After the boy band projects fell through, he relaunched a solo music career adopting the name Lee.M, a collaboration with J. Pearl, Snoop Dogg and Iyaz and for a short time formed NXT-GEN an electropop duo collaboration with Pete Doherty. In 2013, he became part of the country music scene in Ireland in the Country and Irish genre. ==Beginnings as a child star== Lee Mulhern was born in Omagh, Northern Ireland. He grew up in the County Tyrone town of Castlederg〔〔Carton, Donna. "Child star Lee finds Mum knows best", ''Daily Mirror'', 1999-10-05, p. 8.〕 and lived there until the age of 13; he later moved to County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. He started his career at age 7, making his first appearance on Irish television winning the top prize in ''Children at Heart''.〔 He went on to sing live on the BBC for ''Children in Need'' appeal. Aged 8, Lee released his first cassette album entitled ''Hey Good Looking'' a selection of pop, country and ballads. At age 9, he appeared on Hugo Duncan's BBC TV show ''Hugo and Friends'' as a child star. At 10, he won top spot in an 'Esat Digifone' talent competition. In 1999, at age 11, Lee was chosen to represent Ireland at the World Championships for Performing Arts in Los Angeles. He travelled with 35 other Irish contestants to compete against 1500 hopefuls from around the world. He won a gold, a silver and two bronze medals.〔Regan, Claire. "It's viva Las Vegas for teenager: Singer Lee to jet off for date with the stars", ''The Belfast Telegraph'', 22 December 2001.〕 His gold medal was for the song "I May Be Young", co-written by him and his mother Veronica, who was in Irish showbands in the 1980s.〔 The song "I May Be Young", later became used as a peace song, in particular with memorials of the attacks of 11 September.〔"NY's finest aid our kids", ''The Sun'', 2004-02-11, p. 15.〕 He won the silver as well during the same competition with his cover version of "The River" from Garth Brooks. In 2001, at age 13, he participated in a Las Vegas New Year's Eve concert that included Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel and Neil Diamond.〔 He made television appearances on TV3, BBC, ITV, RTE. In 2002, he performed at the Buncrana Music Festival and also in many TV shows in Ireland and in the UK.〔"NorthWest: Rock scene hots up at Buncrana", ''The Belfast Telegraph'', 11 July 2002.〕 On 6 September 2002 in New York, Lee joined Ronan Tynon of the Irish Tenors and a host of other American artists at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for a concert to remember the victims of the 11 September attacks on New York. Lee also joined RTÉ's Gerry Ryan at Ground Zero on 9 September when he sang "Fields of Gold" at a special wreath-laying ceremony.〔McEntee, Myles. "Fire hero tribute by Gerry", ''The Sun'', 2002-09-10, p. 7.〕〔()〕 Songs from this early period performed by Mulhern include most notably "I May Be Young", "The River", "Fields of Gold" and "Bright Eyes". At various times, he appeared on various stages with well-established artists like Daniel O'Donnell, Hugo Duncan, Brian Coll, Philomena Begley, Michael English.〔 In 2004, he was the lead actor in the short film "Buy Rights" about shoppers rights in the UK. He also completed a one year acting course in performing arts in Northern Ireland's NW Institute of Performing Arts.〔 Lee Mulhern studied at St Colman's Secondary School in Strabane with music studies at North West Regional College in Derry.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lee Matthews (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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