Coco Lee, Chanel’s First Chinese Ambassador, Dies at 48

Hong Kong-born American singer Coco Lee died at 48 on Wednesday following a suicide try that left her in a coma, Lee’s two sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, mentioned in a press release posted on Instagram and Fb.

Lee died in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, the place she had been dwelling.

“Though Coco sought skilled assist and did her greatest to battle despair, sadly that demon inside her took the higher of her,” the assertion mentioned.

“On 2 July, she dedicated suicide at dwelling and was despatched to the hospital. Regardless of one of the best efforts of the hospital crew to rescue and deal with her from her coma, she lastly handed away on July 5, 2023,” the assertion mentioned.

Lee’s profession spanned round 30 years. Amongst her most notable performances have been voicing of the feminine warrior Mulan within the Mandarin-language model of Disney’s “Mulan” and performing the Oscar-nominated track “A Love Earlier than Time” from the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”

She was born in Hong Kong in 1975 and was the youngest of three kids of a Hong Kong Cantonese mom and a Malaysian father.

Lee’s father handed away earlier than she was born, and by the age of 9, her mom had moved Lee and her sisters to america, to San Francisco.

After graduating highschool in 1992, she was supplied a recording contract in Hong Kong with Capital Artists, finally main her to depart from her research on the College of California, Irvine, to concentrate on her music profession.

In 1996, Lee signed with Sony Music Leisure and her debut album, “Coco Lee,” turned the best-selling album of that 12 months in Asia.

It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Lee gained fandoms in each Asia and america, which started her path to new collaborations and English-language songs.

She recorded 18 studio albums and appeared in three movies, most notably Lee Xin’s “Grasp of Every thing” and “No Tobacco” by Stanley Kwan.

In 2011, Lee married Bruce Rockowitz, a Canadian businessman who’s the previous CEO of the Hong Kong provide chain firm Li & Fung. He survives her, as do her sisters and two stepdaughters.

By Danielle Broadway; editor Leslie Adler

Study extra:

Why Luxury’s Recovery in China Is Uneven

The rich could also be in a temper to splurge however middle-class customers stay cautious six months after the top of ‘zero-Covid’ insurance policies because of blended indicators within the Chinese language financial system.