Megan Lee
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Megan Lee is a Korean American
Korean American
Korean Americans are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea...

 singer, songwriter, and actress most known for her singing talents on Youtube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

. Megan officially began her professional career in acting, singing, and dancing at the age of 10. She has appeared in numerous national commercials including spots for McDonald's, Verizon, and Nintendo (the Nintendo DS), Bratz, Wal-Mart, Big Lots, Trix as well as TV programs such as the Crash TV series, Kidz Bop, Nickelodeon's i-Carly, Nickelodean's Kid Choice Awards, Disney's Get Connected, 3 Minute Game Show & various Independent Film projects, and most recently, South Korea's popular show, MBC Star Audition - The Great Birth (위대한 탄생) Season 1 (and Season 2) on one of South Korea's main broadcast networks (MBC). On Season 2 of MBC's Star Audition, Lena Park
Lena Park
Lena Park, also known as Park Jung-hyun, , is a Korean-American R&B singer. Early in her life, Park showed talent for singing, mainly in the choir of her father's church in Downey with her siblings Brian and Uriah. She also learned to play saxophone and piano...

 personally selected Megan over a number of other competitors to be Megan's mentor.

Film and Television

In 2008, Megan won the Kids Choice Awards Best Speech Contest at the 2008 Nickelodean Kid Choice Awards. In 2008 Megan Lee played Hyori in the Short Film/Music Video My First Crush, Directed by Rocky Jo, with Arden Cho
Arden Cho
Arden Cho is a Korean American model and actress who also displays her singing and songwriting talents on YouTube. In 2010, Cho was the model for the cosmetic brand Clinique's advertisement campaign in Asia. She has appeared in supporting roles in the television shows CSI: NY and Pretty Little...

 Starring as the older Hyori. Also in 2008, Megan Starred as "Julie" in several episodes of Disney's TV Series, "Disney Get Connected." She also played "Ji Sun" in an episode of Crash (2008 TV series)
Crash (2008 TV series)
Crash is an American television drama series set in Los Angeles, California. It is the first original series produced by the Starz network. The network ordered a 13 episode season which premiered on October 17, 2008. The series is based on the 2004 film of the same name. It was developed for...

 alongside Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

, Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore
Thomas Edward "Tom" Sizemore, Jr. is an American film and television actor and producer. He is known for his roles in films such as Saving Private Ryan, Strange Days, Pearl Harbor, Heat and Black Hawk Down....

, Brian Tee
Brian Tee
Brian Tee is an American actor.Tee was born in Okinawa, Japan, of Japanese and Korean descent. At the age of two, he moved to Hacienda Heights, California, and was raised there ever since. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School and was ASB president and a star captain of the football team. While...

 and Kelvin Han Yee
Kelvin Han Yee
Kelvin Han Yee is an American Actor. He has appeared in films such as Milk, Wedding Palace, Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, Lucky You, The Island, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Sweet November, Life Tastes Good, Clint Eastwood's True Crime, A Great Wall and TV...

.

Music

Megan writes her own original songs and has released two singles so far, "Love, Laugh & Live" and "Destiny." "Love, Laugh & Live" was made into a Music Video in 2011.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1pfrreWcz4http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1964888/ It was Directed by Steve Nguyen.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1694548/ "Destiny" was also made into a Music Video in 2011.http://www.allkpop.com/2011/09/youtube-sensation-megan-lee-releases-teaser-for-destiny It was Directed by Timothy Tau
Timothy Tau
Timothy Tau is an American Writer and Filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest for his short story, "The Understudy", which was published in the Winter 2011 issue of Hyphen , Issue No...

.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2803934/

YouTube

Megan is most likely known for her covers of songs which she posts onto Youtube. Among the songs she has covered that have received significant views include a cover of Christina Aguilera's "I Will Be" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlSZnmTX6gc&feature=channel_video_title, Bruno Mar's "Lazy Song" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB8SAThtpHY&feature=channel_video_title, Little Wayne's "How to Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB8SAThtpHY&feature=channel_video_title, and others. She has also covered other songs and collaborated with other Youtube Artists, for example, in 2011, she covered "Forget You" by Cee Lo Green with Arden Cho
Arden Cho
Arden Cho is a Korean American model and actress who also displays her singing and songwriting talents on YouTube. In 2010, Cho was the model for the cosmetic brand Clinique's advertisement campaign in Asia. She has appeared in supporting roles in the television shows CSI: NY and Pretty Little...

. In 2011, Megan also won 2NE1
2NE1
Both the song and the group became popular online: Fire topped Mnet's online chart and 2NE1 became a popular search term. The group was awarded three Cyworld Digital Music Awards; "Lollipop" and "Fire" both won "Song of the Month" and the group won "Rookie of the Month" for May 2009...

's "Lonely" Cover Contest with her cover of 2NE1
2NE1
Both the song and the group became popular online: Fire topped Mnet's online chart and 2NE1 became a popular search term. The group was awarded three Cyworld Digital Music Awards; "Lollipop" and "Fire" both won "Song of the Month" and the group won "Rookie of the Month" for May 2009...

's single "Lonely", and was flown to Korea to meet with the group.
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