Hong Kong-born singer-songwriter Coco Lee, who had a extremely profitable profession in Asia, has died by suicide on the age of 48.

In a put up on Lee’s official Fb web page, her two elder sisters Carol and Nancy Lee shared that the singer had been battling melancholy for a number of years. “CoCo had been affected by melancholy for a couple of years however her situation deteriorated drastically over the previous couple of months,” the assertion learn.

It continued: “Though CoCo sought skilled assist and did her greatest to combat melancholy, sadly that demon inside her took the higher of her.”

The sisters shared that Lee tried to take her life at dwelling over the weekend and was rushed to a hospital. They stated that she was in a coma and handed on Wednesday, July 5.

Lee, who was educated in each Hong Kong and the US, gained success within the 90s throughout the Mandopop (Mandarin-language pop) scene in Hong Kong earlier than increasing into Cantonese and English.

“Coco can be recognized 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. We’re happy with her,” added the assertion.

She was the voice of heroine Fa Mulan within the Mandarin model of Disney’s Mulan, and in addition sang the Mandarin model of the film’s theme music ‘Reflection’.

In 2001 Lee carried out ‘A Love Earlier than Time’ from Ang Lee’s movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on the Oscars. The Chinese language model of that observe earned her the award award for greatest unique movie music on the 2001 Hong Kong Movie Awards.

In her 30-year musical profession, Lee recorded 18 studio albums, two stay albums and 5 compilation albums. She additionally appeared within the movies No Tobacco by Stanley Kwan, Lee Xin’s Grasp of Every part and 2015’s Eternally Younger.

She incessantly appeared on Chinese language TV exhibits such because the 2013 model of Chinese language Idol and the 2015 model of Dancing with the Stars as a Decide or advisor.

In 2011, Lee married Bruce Rockowitz, a Canadian businessman who’s 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 kids of her personal.

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