Vancouver singer/songwriter Monica Lee will donate all of today’s Bandcamp Friday sales of her latest single “What Went Wrong” to the Vancouver Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre.
t’s a cause close to Lee’s heart, and directly inspired the writing of “What Went Wrong,” which appears on her latest album, Farewell. Living in East Vancouver, Lee regularly encounters women in crisis, and wrote the song with the aim to try to understand the underlying circumstances of their pain, addiction and homelessness.
Quote from Monica Lee:
“The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre assists women with their immediate and crisis needs so they can develop stability and access the resources they need to improve health, family, employment and housing situations. They promote positive change by offering individual long-term support, education, advocacy, peer mentorship and exposure to alternatives. I’m proud to donate all Bandcamp sales on Friday Sept. 4, purchases that will go towards helping women in need.”
About Monica Lee:
Seamlessly blending country, blues and jazz, Monica Lee’s Farewell marks the end of a long creative journey that included her taking time off to give birth, and finding out she’s had an undiagnosed hearing impediment for most of her life. Correcting that through the use of hearing aids brought a whole new perspective to the album and motivated Lee to embrace an entirely new musical identity. The late John Mann of Spirit of the West once compared Monica Lee to Joni Mitchell and it’s easy to agree after hearing her ability to balance confessional subject matter with observations of everyday life. Farewell is a statement both beautiful and soul stirring, a testament to Lee’s undeniable, natural talent.
