Hong Kong-born singer Coco Lee dies after suicide attempt
Hong Kong singer-songwriter Coco Lee died Wednesday after trying to take her own life at the weekend. According to a Facebook post by her sisters.
The cause was suicide, according to a statement from her sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee. Coco Lee was taken to a hospital on Sunday after she attempted suicide at her home, they said. “Coco had been suffering from depression for a few years but her condition deteriorated drastically over the last few months,” her sisters wrote.
Following a suicide attempt that left her in coma, famous Hong Kong-born singer Coco Lee died on Wednesday, her sisters announced in a social media post.
Her sisters Carol and Nancy said Lee was suffering from depression for “a few years” and attempted to take her own life on Sunday. She was hospitalised but could not be brought out of the coma and died on Wednesday. Several media outlets reported she was 48 years old.
Career of the singer
This year marks the 30th year of her career. Her R&B sounds combined with Western hip-hop made her prominent in the United States as well. Lee was born in Hong Kong but raised in San Francisco. She returned to the city of her birth for a vacation after high school, when she joined a singing contest.
Lee intended to obtain little more than restitution for damaging her mother’s car in an accident. She earned first place in the competition, which kicked off her pop career.
Coco Lee, a Chinese American singer and songwriter best known for performing an Oscar-nominated song in the film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” died in a hospital in Hong Kong on Wednesday. She was 48.
Lee sang the Mandarin version of the theme song “Reflection” from 1998 Disney movie Mulan, and also became the first Chinese American to perform at the Oscars, singing the Best Original Song-nominated “A Love Before Time” from Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
