Meg Lee Chin is a Taiwanese American singer, songwriter, sound engineer and video producer who lives in London, England.
Her role in the movement toward DIY record production was first recognized when she appeared as the first home studio producer to be featured in the January 2000 Millennial issue of EQ Magazine which was the foremost high-end audio publication of its time.
[5][6] Meg Lee Chin, whose real name is Margaret O'Leary, was born on 16 March 1960 in Taipei, Taiwan, to a US Air Force electronics engineer and a Taiwanese mother.
[7] She worked as a sound engineer while studying experimental art and video production at San Francisco State University, forming her first band, Felix Natural, during the early 1980s.
Chin went on to co-found the short-lived Teknofear with Lunachicks drummer Becky Wreck and Swans guitarist Joe Goldring; frustrated with American life, she spent the late 1980s living in London, and eventually formed the all-female band Crunch.
[13][14][15] After appearing on Pigface's 1997 LP A New High in Low and their 1999 follow-up, Below the Belt, she released the solo debut Piece and Love on ex-Public Image Ltd, Ministry and Killing Joke drummer Martin Atkins' Invisible Records label.
[16] Recorded in her Soho, London flat and released in September, Piece and Love achieved critical acclaim on the darkwave, industrial underground scene and was hot-tipped in Billboard magazine's "Heatseaker" section.
Crunch's spirited, anthemic hard rock songs seemed to resonate with the newfound freedom of the Ukrainian public who became fascinated with the women from the west.
They all wanted to know the band's opinions on world affairs, but to this Chin replied "We are simply musicians and do not pretend to have the answers to delicate and complex geopolitical questions.
[29] After the tour the band gifted their Ukrainian and Russian hosts with a DAT tape of an album's worth of their music to be distributed throughout the USSR copyright free.
On 18 June 2010 in the High Court of Justice#Chancery Division in London, England, Chin won a claim against her former business partner Julian Standen.
In response to interest stemming from the name change controversy and in order to provide insight into the injustices of the legal system, Chin created the Gearwarz website.
The video demonstrates why Britain is in danger of losing its status as global creative leaders in street art, fashion and pop music.