Coco Lee, a Hong Kong-born singer and songwriter who had a highly effective occupation in Asia, has died by suicide, her siblings reported Wednesday. She was 48.
The star had been struggling from melancholy for several decades, Lee’s elder sisters Carol and Nancy Lee said in a statement posted on Facebook and Instagram, with her condition deteriorating considerably around the final couple of months.
“Although, CoCo sought skilled assist and did her greatest to struggle despair, unfortunately that demon inside of of her took the greater of her,” the assertion read through.
Lee tried suicide at residence more than the weekend and she was rushed to a medical center, her sister said. They stated that she was in a coma and died on Wednesday.
Lee, who was born in Hong Kong but later on moved to the U.S. in which she attended center and superior college, had a really profitable job in Asia as a pop singer in the 1990s and 2000s, where she was recognized for her effective voice and stay performances.
Lee, who was initially a Mandopop singer, branched out to release albums in Cantonese and English over her approximately 30-year profession.
She was the voice of heroine Fa Mulan in the Mandarin variation of Disney’s Mulan, and also sang the Mandarin edition of the movie’s concept tune “Reflection.”
In 2011, Lee married Bruce Rockowitz, a Canadian businessman who is the former CEO of Hong Kong supply chain firm Li & Fung. Even though she experienced two stepdaughters from her marriage with Rockowitz, Lee didn’t have children of her very own.
“CoCo is also recognised to have labored tirelessly to open up a new earth for Chinese singers in the intercontinental tunes scene, and she went all out to glow for the Chinese,” her sisters claimed in their post.
“We are very pleased of her!”
Lifeline Chat and Text, a provider of the 988 Suicide & Disaster Lifeline (previously acknowledged as the Countrywide Suicide Avoidance Lifeline), at 9-8-8 provides people today in distress or people all around them, with 24-hour assist. Folks can contact or text 9-8-8 to hook up with crisis counselors.
