Robin Lee

Robin Lee, a singer and songwriter, entered the world in Nashville and spent her early years there. While still enrolled in high school, she started performing at campus dances and talent shows, later cutting demos for nearby publishing houses. Her first chart entry arrived in 1982 with the modest success of “Turning Back the Covers,” followed by “Heart for a Heart” the next year. Four additional tracks registered as lower-charting singles in 1984, among them “Angel in Your Arms.” In 1985 both “Paint the Town Blue” and “Safe in the Arms of Love” reached the Top 50. Three more Top 50 singles appeared in 1988, one being “This Old Flame.” Lee returned to the charts in 1990 when the title track of Black Velvet climbed to the Top 15, becoming her biggest hit at that point; the album itself peaked inside the Top 25, and two further cuts from it entered the Top 70. Her lone 1991 single was “Nothin’ but You.” After her recording activity diminished, she joined Big Tractor Music, the publishing company owned by Virgin Records Nashville, as a staff songwriter. She later married songwriter Trey Bruce, and her compositions were subsequently recorded by country artists such as LeAnn Rimes and Jo Dee Messina.