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Lee Ellen Shoemaker
is The Tunnel Singer, a San Francisco-based performance
artist and vocalist. Born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1936, singing
in spaces with long natural reverberation has been a passion
since childhood.
Shoemaker's
mother and father taught her to harmonize with them. She enjoyed
playing the family piano, but resisted learning to read music
or practice scales, preferring to improvise.
She remembers
listening to classical music on the floor-model Philco radio,
but favored tuning in unusual sounds between stations on short-wave
bands. Her mother reports that as a toddler she sang with the
drone of the vacuum cleaner whenever it ran.
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