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It was a fluke of his father's graduate education that otherwise native New Yorker Lee was born in Seattle. Leon Stephen Feldman (as it reads on his license) and his family soon returned to New York City, and it's been hard to get Lee away from it ever since. He attended Manhattan School of Music and later graduated from the prestigious conservatory of music at Indiana University. Since then, his career has spanned the sublime (compositions featured at Carnegie Recital Hall) -- to the ridiculous (accompanying a stripper at Jay's Bungalow Colony in the Catskills).

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He has created and produced a multi-media performance incorporating composition, improvisation, dance and a basketball posing as a baby (Invitation at Washington Square Church); he has collaborated with writers, directors and other musicians, he has written avant-garde musicals which have been staged at Dixon Place and Abingdon Theater (Greene, STARBOY) and turned one of them into an award-winning musical film with animator Joe Campbell (STARBOY) that has been performed live with animation at the Whitney Museum, shown at festivals, serious film locations (Anthology Archives, DigiFest, Heeb Magazine's Film Festival in London) and children's venues (Mamalu's Play & Munch Ground in Brooklyn).

Lee has released three albums of his own songs, "Living it All Wrong" (Bonafide/Pure), "The Man in a Jupiter Hat" (Pure/Mercury), and "I've Forgotten Everything" (Urban Myth) which have won critical acclaim from The Atlantic Monthly, Pulse, Entertainment Weekly, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Stereophile, Keyboard Magazine, USA Today and others. He has scored music for film, has accompanied dancers, singers, and an improv comedy group, has written love songs on demand (for a fundraiser), and has performed his own music at NYC venues including Joe's Pub, the now defunct Fez, the Knitting Factory, the Bottom Line, The Museum of the American Piano, PS 1, and CBGB Gallery, among others. He has participated in series presented at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Automatic Vaudeville and the Secret Science Club, and has appeared at prestigious locations and friendly house concerts across the country. He occasionally turns up to perform live at radio stations, and they broadcast him: the syndicated World Café program, Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight," WNYC's "Soundcheck," WFMU, and WBAI. There are currently two documentaries being made about Lee and he looks forward to seeing them both, so he knows what the narrative arc of his life is.

Lee Feldman, a piano-playing songwriter from Brooklyn, is a fixture on the downtown scene. In the late nineties, he received acclaim for his debut album, "Living It All Wrong," and scored a contract with Mercury Records. But the label got caught in an industry merger and it never released his follow-up, "The Man in a Jupiter Hat," which Feldman eventually put out himself. Known for tight pop tales of urban life, little vignettes tempered by an incisive sense of humor, Feldman has collected a group of solid local musicians around him, including Teddy Thompson, Steven Bernstein, and Greta Gertler, all of whom contributed to his new record, "I've Forgotten Everything." - The New Yorker