Ada Lee

US singer from Springfield, Ohio, born circa 1928. She has performed jazz, blues, gospel and soul music on stage and record in the United States and Canada since the late 1950s.
Lee continued to perform after moving to Canada in the 1960s, but her appearances on record after this time are few.
For several decades she lived in the community of Peterborough, Ontario, northeast of Toronto, where she had served countless charities in the area and founded the Voices for Life Gospel Choir. For her work on stage and television and with the Peterborough Centennial Choir, Lee was honoured with the Governor General’s Award and a plaque on the Pathway of Fame at Peterborough’s Del Crary Park.
In 2014, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to be closer to her daughter. Her son, George Lee, is an Ohio-based jazz bassist.