Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter, has died at age 48. She had a profession of some 30 years, which included offering the voice of the heroine Mulan within the Mandarin-language model of Disney’s “Mulan.”
Lee’s sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, stated in a press release on Fb and Instagram that Coco had tried suicide at dwelling on Sunday. She was in a coma since that time and died on Wednesday at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital.
“With nice disappointment, we’re right here [to] break essentially the most devastating information: Coco had been affected by despair for a number of years, however her situation deteriorated drastically over the previous few months,” the sisters stated. “Though Coco sought skilled assist and did her greatest to battle despair, sadly that demon within her took the higher of her.”
Lee, who was educated in each Hong Kong and the U.S., loved success within the Nineteen Nineties in Hong Kong within the Mandopop (Mandarin-language pop) scene earlier than increasing into Cantonese and English.
“Coco can be identified to have labored tirelessly to open up a brand new world for Chinese language singers within the worldwide music scene, and she or he went all out to shine for the Chinese language,” the sisters stated.
Lee carried out “A Love Earlier than Time” from Ang Lee’s movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” on the Oscars in 2001, when the track was nominated for greatest unique track.
The Chinese language model of the identical track earned her the award for greatest unique movie track on the Hong Kong Movie Awards in 2001.
She recorded 18 studio albums, two stay albums and 5 compilation albums. She appeared in three movies, “No Tobacco” by Stanley Kwan, Lee Xin’s “Grasp of All the things” and had a cameo in 2015 movie “Ceaselessly Younger.” She appeared extra continuously on mainland Chinese language TV, notably as a choose or advisor on expertise reveals together with the 2013 model of “Chinese language Idol” and the 2015 model of “Dancing with the Stars.”
Lee was a robust stay performer and was hardly ever removed from the headlines. In 2011, she married Bruce Rockowitz, a rich Canadian businessman in a lavish wedding ceremony that was a spotlight of the 12 months. Rockowitz is the previous CEO of Hong Kong provide chain firm Li & Fung. “Whereas she had two stepdaughters from her marriage with Rockowitz, Lee didn’t have youngsters of her personal,” Radio Tv Hong Kong defined.
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