Coco Lee, a well-known American singer originally from Hong Kong, has unfortunately passed away at the age of 48. She died on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, after an attempt to take her own life, resulting in her falling into a coma.
This heartbreaking news was shared by Coco Lee’s sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, on Instagram and Facebook. Coco Lee was residing in Hong Kong at the time of her passing, and she passed away at Queen Mary Hospital.
What happened to Coco Lee?
“Although, Coco sought professional help and did her best to fight depression, sadly that demon inside of her took the better of her,” the statement said.
“On 2 July, she committed suicide at home and was sent to the hospital. Despite the best efforts of the hospital team to rescue and treat her from her coma, she finally passed away on 5 July, 2023,” the statement said.
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Coco Lee had a successful music career that spanned around 30 years. She achieved notable accomplishments such as lending her voice to the character Mulan in the Chinese version of Disney’s “Mulan” and singing the song “A Love Before Time” for the film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” which received an Oscar nomination.
Born in Hong Kong in 1975, Coco Lee was the youngest of three siblings. Her mother was from Hong Kong, and her father was from Malaysia. Unfortunately, her father passed away before she was born. When Coco was 9 years old, her mother moved the family, including Coco and her sisters, to San Francisco in the United States.
After completing high school in 1992, Coco Lee received a music deal from a Hong Kong company called Capital Artists. She made the decision to pause her studies at the University of California, Irvine, in order to focus on her music career.
In 1996, she signed with Sony Music Entertainment and released her first album titled “Coco Lee,” which became the most popular album in Asia that year.
Soon, people in both Asia and the United States started to become fans of her music. This led to her working with other artists and making songs in English.
She made 18 albums in total and was in three movies. The most famous ones were “Master of Everything” by Lee Xin and “No Tobacco” by Stanley Kwan.’
In 2011, she married a Canadian businessman named Bruce Rockowitz. He used to be the CEO of a company in Hong Kong called Li & Fung. He, her sisters, and her two stepdaughters are still alive.
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