Scooter Lee

Scooter Lee entered the world in New Orleans on March 10, 1957. As a teenager she started performing and hovered at the edges of the Crescent City’s soul circuit before shifting toward country by the close of the 1970s. That move produced her independently issued album A Louisiana Lady in 1979. Throughout the following decade she fronted a quintet underwritten by the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, delivering country sets at state fairs and festivals nationwide and later joining Bob Hope’s USO Tours in the mid-’80s.

During the line-dance surge of the 1990s Lee embraced the boot-scootin’ sound, releasing The Honky Tonk Twist in 1994 as the first of several projects for Southern Tracks Records. She continued issuing recordings and traveling both domestically and abroad through the late ’90s and early 2000s. That pace persisted into the 2010s, when she also devoted time to her organization Dancing for the Dream Inc., which promotes physical activity among older adults.