A British woman ditched her sales job and went on a song writing retreat - and is now a K-pop chart topper with 20 number one singles. Claire Rodrigues Lee, 45, split up with her partner in 2001 after 17 years together, moved in with her parents and quit her job - where her partner worked.
Feeling “lost” and “depressed,” Claire turned to self-help books and song writing - a career path she’d unsuccessfully tried to pursue when she was 16. A friend introduced her to a music producer who loved her demos and sent her to a K-pop song writing retreat in Aarhus, Denmark.
Despite "knowing nothing" about the genre, she found she had a talent - and was snapped up by a label back in the UK. Within a year she was writing songs for J-pop, C-pop and K-pop mega stars.
