Coco Lee has died at age 48
Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter
ByZEN SOO Associated Press
July 5, 2023, 9:23 PM
NOTE; Hong Kong singer Coco Lee performs during a mini concert as celebrating an opening ceremony of a new hotel in Hong Kong, Friday, August 19, 2005. Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer who had a highly successful career in Asia, died on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. She was 48. (AP/Kin Cheung, File)
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Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter who had a highly successful career in Asia, has died by suicide, her siblings said Wednesday. She was 48.
Coco Lee had been suffering from depression several years said by her elder sister's Carol and Nancy Lee were posted on Facebook and instagram, with her condition deteriorating drastically over the last few months.
the statement read “Although,CoCo sought professional help and did her best to fight depression, sadly that demon inside of her took the better of her,”
Her sister said that Lee attempted suicide at home over the weekend and she was rushed to a hospital and They said that she was in a coma and died on Wednesday.
Born Ferren Lee in Hong Kong, Lee later moved to the U.S. where she attended middle and high school in San Francisco. She became a singer after winning first runner up in an annual singing competition held by broadcaster TVB in Hong Kong, and released her first album in 1994 at the age of 19.
She was best known for her powerful voice
and live performances.
“CoCo is also known to have worked tirelessly to open up a new world for Chinese singers in the international music scene, and she went all out to shine for the Chinese,” her sisters said in their post. “We are proud of her!”
In 2011, Lee married Bruce Rockowitz, a Canadian businessman who is the former CEO of Hong Kong supply chain company Li & Fung. While she had two stepdaughters from her marriage with Rockowitz, Lee didn’t have children of her own.
She also was the first Chinese singer to break into the American market, and her English song “Do You Want My Love” charted at #4 on Billboard’s Hot Dance Breakouts chart in Dec. 1999.
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She recorded 18 studio albums and appeared in three films, most notably Lee Xin's "Master of Everything" and "No Tobacco" by Stanley Kwan.
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