Cindy Lee is the performance and songwriting vehicle of Canadian musician Patrick Flegel, former guitarist and lead singer of Women.

[3] From there, the project evolved into Cindy Lee, which sees Flegel recording music primarily alone but continuing to perform with a rotating roster of supporting musicians.

When asked in a fan Q&A on web forum Reddit to elaborate on whether Cindy Lee is a character, a figure of her own, or something else, Flegel replied as follows: [...] combining 'cross dressing' with live performance, over time [...] became a way to reinforce me doing something that I love doing that I often withhold from myself.

[6] In 2015 Flegel self-released (via their CCQSK label) the full-length albums Act of Tenderness[7] and Malenkost,[8] both of which were later reissued and received wider distribution in the US and Europe.

In 2024, Flegel collaborated with Deerhunter drummer Moses Archuleta on his second studio album, Cemetery Classics, released under the moniker Moon Diagrams,[17] and with Animal Collective's Noah Lennox on the Panda Bear single Defense.