Lee sang in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 under the direction of Leonard Bernstein, appeared in the Grant Park Summer Concert Series, and performed under Eugene Ormandy of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She appeared on stage with Anderson and Mahalia Jackson, and toured widely as a soloist in the U.S., seven countries in Europe, and the Caribbean. Audiences responded enthusiastically to her programs, which included a diverse repertoire sung in four languages. She was particularly noted for her dynamic interpretation of Negro spirituals.

Alyne was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. She moved to Chicago as a young adult, where she met and married John Frank Lee. They would adopt two children, Angela and Susan.

Lee attended Oakwood College, Emmanuel Missionary College, now Andrews University, The Institute of Art, and Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Following her debut, she continued to study with voice teachers at the Chicago Conservatory of Music and others in New York, Germany, and France. In Adventist circles in Chicago she was known as a gifted choir director and singer.

From 1966 to the time of her death in 1970, Lee was artist in residence at Oakwood College, now University, and served as a visiting professor in music at Alabama A & M University. In those years she also served as Special Consultant for the Civic Opera Society of Huntsville, Alabama.

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