Lea McCormick

Lea (pronounced "Lee") grew up in a neighborhood in a small town in Oklahoma. She is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. She spent her summers as a kid playing softball, visiting her grandparents, & staying outside from sun up to sun down. The middle child of a teacher and a stay at home mom, she learned the importance of education and spending time with family is. At age 9, She wrote, directed, starred in, sold tickets for(sold out), built the set for a play about the story of Helen Keller at the back porch theater. After a long hiatus (30 years) She returned to the stage portraying an old Native woman in Nanyehi, A musical about the last Cherokee Beloved Woman. Written by Becky Hobbs and Nick Sweet. During her hiatus, she went to college on an athletic training scholarship after being an athletic trainer at her school from 7 to 12th grade. She left college and went to school to be a paramedic, she worked 10 years either on an ambulance or in the ER until taking a job at a Cardiology group as an EKG technician for nuclear stress testing. She is a Native American artist and craftsman & teaches Native American crafts as a private contractor. She also sang with Native Praise choir, a choral group that represents 22 native tribes and sings in 5 Native languages all over the world. Lea has a Nashville recorded country EP called "Running On Dreams" recorded at Duane Sciagcua's studio Rough Edges. It's for sale on CDBaby. She is married to a wonderful man & has a teenage son. They live in another small town in Oklahoma.