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Music

Sook-Yin Lee

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HOME GAMES Sook-Yin Lee and DOCUMENTARY touch down on the Harbourfront Centre Concert Stage (235 Queens Quay West), Saturday (July 21). Free. 416-973-4000.

NICKNAME Pal Chester Brown calls her Imp.

POSITION Vocals, guitar, keys, assorted PVC tubing and noisemakers.

TEAM MEMBERS Adam Litovitz (guitar, keys, voice) and Anne Bourne (cello, voice). Super-deluxe DOCUMENTARY includes Joseph Shabason (horns, keys, voice), Brandon Cronenberg (didgeridoo, bass) and Kieran Adams (drums).

ROOKIE YEAR First performance at age five in her backyard. Involved acrobatic feats, French showgirls, song and dance and featured Lee on Hawaiian nose guitar: “The audience closed their eyes and I’d remove my make-believe guitar from its case and make weird sounds. Everyone believed I was playing Hawaiian guitar.”

LEAGUE “Wrecked realism.”

STATS Shortbus soundtrack (2006) Electric Blues (2004) Wigs ‘N’ Guns (1996) Lavinia’s Tongue (1995). Image Award, Reel Asian film fest Applause Award, Chinese Canadian National Council and more.

SPECIAL TALENTS Ace amateur surgeon who performs operations for free. For one month held record for fastest time in Canada among 13- and 14-year-old girls for the 200-metre breast stroke.

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