Lee Aaron

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Lee Aaron, born Karen Lynn Greening on July 21, 1962, in Belleville, Ontario, is a Canadian rock singer known as the Metal Queen. She started singing in school and formed a band that became Lee Aaron. Her first album, The Lee Aaron Project, came out in 1982. The 1984 album Metal Queen made her famous and led to a deal with Attic Records. Her breakthrough songs include "Whatcha Do to My Body," "Sex with Love," and "Barely Holdin On." Her 1989 album Bodyrock was a big hit in Canada and went double platinum. She won three Toronto Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist and was nominated for the Juno Awards sixteen times.

In the 1990s she left Attic Records, started her own label, and released two more albums. She also worked with various artists and briefly used her real name Karen for the 1995 album 2preciious. After studying acting, she began performing jazz and blues in Toronto, releasing the jazz album Slick Chick in 2000. She later joined the Modern Baroque Opera Company for a 2002 production and released the pop-jazz album Beautiful Things in 2004. In 2016 she issued Fire And Gasoline, an all-rock album self-financed on Big Sister Records, and was inducted into the Brampton Arts Walk Of Fame. She has continued to perform in Europe and North America, including shows in the UK and Germany in 2016–2017.