Megan Lee

Megan Lee General information Nickname(s) Megan, Meg, Megi, Pepegan Gender Female Born September 18, 1995 Died Occupation Actress, Singer, Songwriter, Director, Producer, Influencer, Twitch Streamer, Gamer Years active As a Singer 2008-2020, As a songwriter 2008 - Present, As an actress 2008 - Present, As a film Director 2020 - Present, As a Twitch Streamer 2018 - Present

Megan Lee is a Korean - American Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Actress, film Director, Music / Film Procuder, Influencer, Gamer and Twitch Streamer most known for her singing talents on YouTube. From February 2013, Megan Lee was signed to Kim Tae-woo's (former lead singer of g.o.d) label, Soul Shop Entertainment up until November 2014.^[1][2] Megan Lee was also a former member of XO-IQ, featured in the Nickelodeon series Make It Pop, currently Megan Lee is studying for her career as a Director and Film producer.^[3]

History

Megan Lee officially began her professional career in acting, singing, and dancing at the age of 10. She has appeared in numerous national commercials including spots for McDonald's, Verizon, and Nintendo (the Nintendo DS), Bratz, Wal-Mart, Big Lots, Trix as well as TV programs such as the Crash TV series, Kidz Bop, Nickelodeon's iCarly, Nickelodeon's Kid Choice Awards, Disney's Get Connected, 3 Minute Game Show & various independent film projects, South Korea's popular show, MBC Star Audition - The Great Birth (위대한 탄생) Season 1 (and Season 2) on one of South Korea's main broadcast networks (MBC). On Season 2 of MBC's Star Audition, Lena Park personally selected Megan Lee over a number of other competitors to be Megan Lee's mentor. She also finished in the Top 13 of contestants at the end of Season 2, and she also did an appearence in the TV Show S.W.A.T. and a short film (which unfortunately never got released) titled "Things I never Said"^[4]

Film and television

Megan Lee is starred in Nickelodeon's show titled "Make It Pop".^[5] She was one of the show's four main stars and played a character named "Sun Hi Song".^[6] The series was co-produced by Nick Cannon.^[7][8]

In 2008, Megan Lee had won the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Best Speech Contest at the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards. Megan Lee played Hyori in the Short Film/Music Video, My First Crush, directed by Rocky Jo, with Arden Cho starring as the older Hyori.^[9] Also in 2008, Megan Lee starred as "Julie" in several episodes of Disney's TV Series, "Disney Get Connected". She also played "Ji Sun" in an episode of Crash alongside Dennis Hopper, Tom Sizemore, Brian Tee and Kelvin Han Yee.

In 2022 Megan Lee starts a fundraiser through her web social media to fund a project she wanted to do, a short film which will start her career as a director and film producer, short film which finally got released in 2023 with the name "En Pointe" and publicly on her YouTube channel on 2024 Directed, written and produced by Megan Lee.

Music

Megan Lee writes her own original songs and released three singles as an independent artist, "In The Future", "Love, Laugh & Live" and "Destiny". "Love, Laugh & Live" was Megan's first official music video and was shot and directed by Steve Nguyen.^[10] "Destiny" was also made into a music video, and was directed by Timothy Tau.^[11][12] Megan Lee has also released a music video and track with Kim Tae-woo entitled "Oppa".

Megan Lee official debut track during her time on Soul Shop Entertainment was entitled "8dayz" (read as 8 Days), which was released on May 15, 2014.^[13] The track features B2ST's Yong Jun-hyung, and is also composed by German composers Andreas Bärtels and Rüdiger Schramm, who also composed a track for veteran K-pop singer Nami.^[14]

Megan Lee and her vocals are also featured in the g.o.d reunion track, "The Story of Our Lives".^[15] The music video for the song was released on July 11, 2014, and is the first time the band g.o.d has sung together in over 10 years.^[16][17]

On November 10, 2014, Megan Lee filed a civil lawsuit with the Seoul District Court against Soul Shop Entertainment requesting nullification of her 5-year contract.^[18] Megan Lee, along with her representation, claimed that she was severely verbally abused by some of the members of management, and that intimidation tactics were used to impose their will on her career. She also claimed that a contract was signed on her behalf without her consent, a fraudulent bank account in her name was made without her consent, and that the financial activity regarding her career with Soul Shop was not made transparent as it was promised to her in their initial agreement with the label, lawsuit wich later on she won on her favor.^[19]

In March 2015, Megan Lee became a member of XO-IQ a fictional idol group made by Nickelodeon for their show titled "Make It Pop" which was inspired on the K-Pop music industry, which also features as part of the goup Canadian Actress / Singer Louriza Tronco, Singaporean-Canadian Actress / Singer Erika Tham and Canadian Actor / DJ Producer Dale Whibley.^[20]

YouTube

Megan Lee is most likely known for her covers of songs which she posts onto YouTube. Among the songs she has covered that have received significant views include a cover of Christina Aguilera's "I Will Be", Bruno Mars' "Lazy Song", Lil Wayne's "How to Love", Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill you)" and others. She has also covered other songs and collaborated with other YouTube artists, for example, in 2011, she covered "Forget You" by Cee Lo Green with Arden Cho.^[21] In 2011, Megan Lee also won 2NE1's "Lonely" Cover Contest with her cover of 2NE1's single "Lonely", and was flown to Korea to meet with the group. She also made a cover of Adele's "Someone Like You" on YouTube with Sungha Jung. In 2012 she won a Cover Contest sponsored by Jason Mraz and Warner Music Korea, and collaborated with Jason Mraz in a duet for his track, "Lucky" which is viewable on YouTube.^[22] She has also performed and recorded a number of duets with acoustic guitarist Sungha Jung, covering famous K-pop songs such as "Monster" by BIGBANG, Megan Lee also later collaborared with other internet celebrities such as the music YouTuber and producer Kurt Hugo Schneider and musical artists such as Sam Tsui, Max Schneider, Chad Future among others while doing covers of other popular songs including K-Pop songs, she also did and release a Youtube video performing the acustic cover on Guitar and Vocals of the QUEEN's song "Somebody To Love" in honor of the band's movie "Bohepian Rhapsody".^[23]

References

External links

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• Megan Lee on Soul Shop Entertainment
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