Hong Kong-American singer Coco Lee, known as the singer of Disney’s Mulan, died Wednesday at a Hong Kong hospital at the age of 48 from injuries she sustained three days earlier in an attempt to take her own life, according to informed his family.
“It is with great sadness that we come to share the most devastating of news: Coco has suffered from depression for a few years but her condition has dramatically deteriorated in recent months,” her sisters, Carol and Nancy wrote on Instagram and Facebook.
Coco Lee suffered from depression for several years. Although the artist sought professional help and battled the disease, “that inner demon of hers got the best of her.” She tried to commit suicide last Sunday and had been in a coma ever since.
Lee was a musical reference in Asia. She was the first Chinese artist to sign a worldwide contract with the giant Sony Music and also the first and so far only representative of her ethnic group to have performed at the Oscars ceremony, where in 2000 she sang the song A Love Before Time belonging to to the movie Tiger and Dragon, by Ang Lee.
He achieved his first regional success in 1994 with the Taiwanese release of a Chinese-language album called Love From Now On, and in 1999 he released his first English-language effort, Just No Other Way.
Throughout her career, Coco Lee, who also participated as an actress in three films, released more than fifteen albums that sold tens of millions of copies, and her single Do You Want My Love reached fourth place on the US Billboard chart in December 1999.
In addition, the artist will be remembered for her Mandarin voice for the Chinese princess Mulan in Disney’s animated version. The singer performed songs like Reflection.
