Lee was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. He formally studied trumpet from 5th grade through his freshman year at West Chester University. It was while in High School that Lee got a bass guitar. Lee is self-taught on bass guitar & upright bass. Lee started doing gigs on the weekends & eventually toured internationally with several Philadelphia based recording artist including, The Delphonics, Blue Magic, Major Harris & Billy Paul. He later moved to New York and worked with Afro-Cuban Percussionist, Mongo Santamaria for five years. For over 25 years Lee has worked with numerous jazz greats including Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Erskine Hawkins, Trudy Pitts, Odean Pope & Sonny Fortune. He is proud father of bass great Christian Mc Bride.