Josephine Lee: I’d like to teach the world to sing

Chicago choir leader Josephine Lee was in Cork recently for Summer Sing, writes Ellie O’Byrne

“MUSIC is the key; if every child and every person sang, we’d have a more peaceful, harmonious, and just world.”

Josephine Lee, born to Korean- American immigrant parents, is the charismatic driving force behind the Chicago Children’s Choir. Under the directorship of this recent visitor to Cork, the choir, founded at the height of the US Civil Rights movement, has brought its message of equality and peace beyond the deprived communities it first served and onto the global stage.