[1] Towers' performing range has included pop, show tunes, country, soul and gospel.

[2] He is well known in the Netherlands for bringing large theatrical performances to his fans in the style of Las Vegas shows.

[citation needed] Since the 1980s, Towers has held 50 gala performances at Rotterdam Ahoy, a multi-purpose arena, which now hosts a bronze bust of him at the entrance.

[citation needed] Towers was initially part of the show orchestra Len Hauser & the Drifting Five and broke through in 1975 when he was presented by Willem Duys as the singing crane operator from Rotterdam (however he worked as a maintenance bank worker at the Boele shipyard in Bolnes).

Willem Duys released the first single performed under the name Lee Towers on the radio program "Music Mosaic"; the song was "It's Raining in My Heart", composed by the lead singer of the Outsiders, Wally Tax.

Towers gave his first major concert in De Doelen in Rotterdam in 1980, a unique achievement for the time.

In 2003, Towers starred in the Dutch youth film Sinterklaas and the Danger in the Valley, directed by Martijn van Nellestijn.