Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter, has died at age 48. She had a career of some 30 years, which included providing the voice of the heroine Mulan in the Mandarin-language version of Disney’s “Mulan.”
, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter, has died at age 48. She had a career of some 30 years, which included providing the voice of the heroine Mulan in the Mandarin-language version of Disney’s “Mulan.”that Coco had attempted suicide at home on Sunday. She was in a coma since that point and died on Wednesday at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital.
Lee, who was educated in both Hong Kong and the U.S., enjoyed success in the 1990s in Hong Kong in the Mandopop scene before expanding into Cantonese and English. Lee performed “A Love Before Time” from Ang Lee’s film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” at the Oscars in 2001, when the song was nominated for best original song.
She recorded 18 studio albums, two live albums and five compilation albums. She appeared in three films, “No Tobacco” by Stanley Kwan, Lee Xin’s “Master of Everything” and had a cameo in 2015 film “Forever Young.” She appeared more frequently on mainland Chinese TV, notably as a judge or advisor on talent shows including the 2013 version of “Chinese Idol” and the 2015 version of “Dancing with the Stars.
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