
Biography
28.03.1988~
Poet, Jazz musician and Actress from South Korea
Lina Lee has played the drums, piano and violin since childhood and she studied musical performing arts at university and graduate school where she graduated as Summa Cum Laude.
After graduating, she began her acting career in earnest by playing the role of mentally disabled daughter Helena in an adaptation of [Autumn Sonata] by Ingmar Bergman, who is called the best director of the 20th century.
However, the first work always has the greatest meaning. She began her studies of body movement and sound while playing a role with intellectual disability and polio. She also conducted her movement studies with 'Maureen Fleming', an American avant-garde dancer.
She became more interested in her body movements and her own sound. After that, she became a founding member of the Korea vocology association, and she also worked as a researcher in the field of musicals and gave her academic
presentations. She also taught musical voice and acting at various academies over seven years.
In 2018, she became the winner of Korea's most prestigious poetry competition (Chosun Ilbo). Since then, she started working as a poet in Korea, and she created a poet group and conducted projects such as talent donation fundraising readings for women's rights and gender equality, and concerts for other socially underprivileged people. In addition, she was awarded a creative support fund in 2019 by the DaeSan Foundation, which is called the Medici family in Korea, in recognition of the quality of her poetry.
The more she got to know herself, the more her hunger for the most poetic music that reflected her most. And she realized it was jazz. And she decided to go to her favorite country, Netherlands, to study her jazz. Since 2022 she has been playing jazz in the Netherlands.
She believes the strength of her oriental and historical source of Korea, poetry that passes through the essence, and jazz that experiences existence will combine to approach the most unchanging truth of life.