Lee Vasi, a dynamic Christian R&B singer and songwriter, to discuss her inspiring journey of surrendering to God’s will. Lee’s path has been remarkable, transitioning from a childhood career in singing and acting to embracing her calling in Christian R&B music. Her story exemplifies how one can break free from conventional molds, dedicating their talents to glorify God while navigating the challenges of pursuing Christ.
Chapter 1: Who is Lee Vasi and how did she start her career?
Leigh is a triple threat singer, songwriter, and actress who is shattering genre barriers with her unique blend of Christian and R&B music. The incredibly talented singer-songwriter and actress Leigh Vassie hails from Fayetteville, North Carolina, beginning her career in entertainment at the age of nine years old on Broadway as young Nala in The Lion King.
Leigh has since released multiple singles, making her one of Christian Music's most exciting new stars, and Amazon Music naming her as the 2025 Artist to Watch.
guys i am so excited she's here welcome lee thank you so much for coming thank you for having me you look beautiful thank you how are you feeling i feel great how are you feeling i'm good i'm good yeah it has been a long week we just finished with fashion week yes that was my first one was that your first yeah it was my first one girl when i say exhausting girl
I'm not built for that no more. I gotta get back at there. You know what I'm saying?
You really had to like, the same way you get ready for tour, I feel like you had to be prepared for Fashion Week because it is a marathon.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a whole production. But it was great though.
I loved it.
How was your first experience? You know, it was full of surprises. I had no expectations. But it was great. I got to meet people like you. And it was awesome. I would definitely do it again.
How was yours? It was amazing. But the first day we got there, Delta lost my luggage. So yes, all my day one looks were left in Atlanta. Yes, you should have seen this girl. We were literally, Ashana and I, we landed and the guy came out and he's like, yeah, I'm only seeing six bags. And we were like, well, there was definitely seven.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Lee Vasi face during her hiatus?
It was my first professional role, but I was definitely theater kid growing up. I started performing with my siblings actually at the local theater when I was seven. And my brother actually used to get me ready for auditions. And he actually found the Lion King audition and I ended up booking it off an open call. I didn't have an agent or anything at that time.
And so, yeah, pretty quickly it turned into, you know, my career and what I was pursuing, so.
Now, I'm always interested, like, what is it as a child? Because I know Broadway can be a very rigorous schedule, demanding, and it's not as glamorous as people think it is. Right. Like, you get to TV and film, you have hairstylists and makeup artists, and you're just kind of sitting there learning your lines. And it's still a lot of hard work, but with Broadway, you have to do everything.
It's not like you don't have, like, the team of people. How was that at a very young age?
Well, so I actually did have hair and makeup.
Oh, you did? Yeah, there's no way.
Because it's also very intricate, makeup and hair. Like, they attach a thing to your hair. Like, it's this whole thing for young Nala. So I did have a great makeup and hair team and dressers and everything. So, you know, I love the production of theater. I love, you know, the pace of it. And you have to be on. It's live. It's, you know, eight shows a week.
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Chapter 3: How did Lee Vasi's faith influence her journey?
So Tyler, he comes from the theater world. So I understand like we have one shot to get the take. What is that pressure like day in and day out knowing that you're performing in front of a live audience and you gotta get it right in that one shot?
Yeah, well so I think something that I really love about theater is the preparation that's required because you're doing the same show.
every night right and so you get to a point where it's kind of in your muscle memory obviously you have to improv and you know there's different things that come up every night you know maybe a technical difficulty or what have you but it really just kind of lives in your in your body at a certain point and so for me especially as a kid it really wasn't pressure because I just felt so prepared and I loved it you know I was really just having so much fun
What was like, can you remember what was a moment where it was like, whoa, like you had your first technical difficulty or you had to improv? Were you kind of like, oh, what's happening? Did you kind of have to learn like how to pivot or was that something that just came naturally?
So actually the first technical difficulty I had was not in The Lion King. It was in my first show. I did The Wizard of Oz. Wow, girl.
That's another big one.
Yeah, yeah. In my local theater. So that was my first show. And I was a munchkin. And, you know, we were wearing these huge, you know, munchkin land shoes. And one of mine came off in the middle of us, like, in a ring around the Rosie situation. And my sister was also in the show with me, and my sister kind of just kicked the shoe off, offstage.
And so, and I was just so happy to have my sister there for me in that moment, because that was my first time. I was seven. I didn't know what to do. But, you know, you keep going.
You keep rolling with it. Absolutely.
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Chapter 4: What is the importance of spirituality in Lee Vasi's life?
No, that is something you can literally take with you for the rest of your life. Just keep going. I love that. You ended up, how long did you continue pursuing this career as you got older?
I kind of like never stopped. I just shifted my focus. So when I was in the Lion King, I became interested in songwriting. Okay. And I was like a huge like music nerd since before I can remember. And so I used to watch all the MTV, VH1, like behind the, you know, music, like those kinds of episodes. And I'm a huge Mariah Carey fan. I was really big on Neo growing up too. And
i was like okay they're songwriters so i need to learn how to write songs um and so i asked for a guitar for my 10th birthday oh and i got one and i started writing songs on my guitar when i was 10 and so that kind of opened the door for me uh really just thinking about music is what i wanted to pursue um because before uh you know i was really young so you know the world was kind of my oyster and i was like i could do
theater I can do movies and you know music I wanted to do all of it and still do you know but I really started focusing on music when I was 16 and I was like okay this is this is the one thing I'm gonna focus on for now before I branch out you know yeah yeah yeah it's dope you talked about how once you got a little older you took a hiatus from everything what prompted that shift to be like I need to take a beat
Life just started lifin', and I didn't know how to manage it, right? And I think that because I was so young and in this constant pursuit, right, of my goals and of these visions that God had really shown me about what my life would look like, you know, I got kind of lost in that at a point. And, you know, God didn't show me all the mess that was happening between. Right.
And so, you know, I was at a really tough place with my mental health. I kind of was ending up in toxic relationship after toxic relationship. You know, things got tough in my career and I just didn't really know what was next. I just felt like I was kind of on this downward spiral that I couldn't see the end of how to stop it, you know? And so I had to like make a decision to take a beat.
And it was tough to kind of come to that place of like, you know what? This isn't working out. But God used it, you know? And so, yeah, there was just kind of like a whirlwind of just mess.
Yeah, oh my goodness. Do you mind sharing? Because I like for our audience to see that we are just like them. A lot of times they see us in the spotlight and think, oh, they don't go through anything. Are you comfortable with sharing anything that you were going through in that moment that may help someone else?
Sure, yeah. So it was really just a combination of Honestly, like being naive. Yeah, right. I was young, really. Like when I was when I went to college is when everything kind of just fell apart.
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Chapter 5: How does Lee Vasi navigate balancing culture and Christianity?
Yeah.
And then that, you know, world that I was in led to some really toxic and abusive relationships. And it just became a cycle. And it started to kind of normalize in my life. And I was like, okay, like this is just being grown, you know? And, you know, I kind of accepted that as truth until I just couldn't accept it anymore, you know?
So my question, did you have like an upbringing where you're raising the church? Because a lot of times, like for me, I was raised in a church, my mother was a pastor, we were there every time the doors of the church opened. Got to college and I was buck wild, like rebelled. I was the prodigal daughter. I literally, same thing, partying, drinking when I got to college.
with the wrong guys, you know, it was just like down this path of destruction. Was there a moment in your childhood where you had something to reach back to knowing like, I got to get back to the foundation?
Yeah. Yeah. So my parents definitely gave me that foundation. We weren't, I wasn't a church girl, you know, like we would kind of be in and out of church at different times growing up. But when I was 14, I did do the altar call at a Bible study and I gave my life to Christ, but I did it kind of out of fear because I didn't want to go to hell.
you know I didn't do it because I really like understood who Jesus is or like even maybe at that point even really cared to know who Jesus is but I just didn't want to go to hell and so I was like okay I'm gonna do this altar call I'm gonna be saved and and that's cool but I you know then went into high school and went into college and wavered you know and as a kid I wouldn't say I
I wouldn't say that anything kept me restricted but me. I was so focused as a kid. Yeah. And so rigid towards myself.
Wow.
Had a lot of negative self-talk because I was so just goal-oriented. And I didn't party in high school. I didn't have a huge social circle. Like, I was just at the house. I would go to school and go home and song write, and that was it, you know? And so I think for me, then when I got to college, I was like, okay, well, I did the thing. Like, you know, I'm back in New York.
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