Lee Takasugi

Lee Takasugi is a third generation Japanese- American artist, children’s book author, and singer-songwriter from Los Angeles.  She began painting and writing music at a young age, and despite efforts to pursue a career in law like those in her family, she spent most of her professional life as an English teacher by day and musician/performer at night. 

Lee has contributed music to indie films, theatre productions, KPFK’S “The Global Village, PBS after school programming, festivals, and socio-political events such as the “Day of Remembrance,” and pilgrimages to Manzanar and Tule Lake.  Her song, “On Mars” has been a studied example in the Asian American studies departments at Pomona College, Asuza Pacific University and Scripps College of how the WWII Japanese American Internment camp experience has been expressed through the arts.  The Taiko Project, a nationally touring Japanese drum group has recently licensed Lee's song “Breezeby"and will be performing it this summer at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.