Coco Lee, the prolific Hong Kong-born pop singer-songwriter, has died. She was 48. The information was confirmed by Lee’s older’s sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, who posted a press release to Lee’s official Fb web page noting that Coco had tried suicide. “Coco had been affected by melancholy for a couple of years however her situation deteriorated drastically over the previous few months,” the assertion learn. “Though CoCo sought skilled assist and did her finest to combat melancholy, sadly that demon inside her took the higher of her.” The sisters added that Lee had tried to take her life whereas at dwelling over the weekend and was subsequently rushed to a hospital; sadly, she entered right into a coma and handed at present (July 5).

Born Ferren Lee in Hong Kong, Lee moved along with her household to San Francisco as a baby. She was supplied a document deal proper out of highschool in Hong Kong. Initially gaining success within the Nineties, Lee turned well-known in Mandopop (Mandarin-language pop) circles in Hong Kong earlier than later increasing to Cantonese and English. Abroad, she was finest recognized for voicing Fa Mulan within the Mandarin model of Disney’s Mulan; she additionally sang the Mandarin model of the film’s theme music, “Reflection.”

Lee was additionally recognized for singing “A Love Earlier than Time” from Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning 2000 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The monitor’s Chinese language model received the Hong Kong Movie Award for Greatest Unique Movie Track in 2001, and Lee additionally carried out it on the 2001 Oscars. Within the 2000s, she appeared in Stanley Kwan’s 2002 movie No Tobacco and Lee Xin’s Grasp Of Every thing (2004).

Over her 30-year profession, Lee launched 18 studio albums, two reside albums, and 5 compilation albums. Her last studio album was 2013’s Illuminate. In more moderen years, she appeared on Chinese language TV reveals such because the 2013 model of Chinese language Idol and the 2015 model of Dancing With The Stars, the place she was a choose and advisor.

Lee’s final single was titled “Tragic” and got here out in February. In a put up to her social media on the finish of final 12 months, Lee wrote that she’d had an “extremely tough 12 months” however inspired followers to “be an influential determine to encourage folks.”

In the event you or somebody wants assist, you’ll be able to name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org to speak with somebody on-line.