“Michael Jackson & Friends”‘s Hong Kong Singer Coco Lee died

You might not know her but Coco Lee was a famous Hong Kong singer-songwriter who performed at the “Michael Jackson & Friends” concerts in Germany and Korea in 1999.

The singer was a huge Michael Jackson fan among being famous in her country.

Coco Lee died by suicide on today. She was diagnosed with depression a few years ago. She was only 48 years old.

Coco Lee was born on January 17, 1975. She was a Chinese-American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress.

She was nine years old when she, her mother, and her sisters moved to San Francisco. She attended Presidio Middle School and Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School. After graduating from high school, she was offered a recording contract in Hong Kong. Initially, she tried to juggle her budding music career with her studies at the University of California, Irvine. However, she left after her freshman year to take up her pop career full-time.

She was the first runner-up at the 12th Annual New Talent Singing Awards in Hong Kong after she sang Whitney Houston’s Run To You. The very next day, she was offered a recording contract with Capital Artists. She made her debut by appearing in several compilation albums, such as Red Hot Hits ’93 Autumn Edition. In 1994, she released her first solo albums in Mandarin, Love from Now On and Promise Me, working with Fancy Pie Records.

Her single, Do You Want My Love entered the US music charts. Her first English-language album was Just No Other Way (1999). She even performed at the Oscars, after her song A Love Before Time was nominated as the Best Original Song from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Other than these,  Walt Disney Pictures hired her to sing the theme song Reflection and be the voice of the heroine Fa Mulan in the Mandarin version of Mulan. She also performed in Michael Jackson’s “Michael Jackson and friends” charity concert

Coco married Bruce Rockowitz, on 27 October 2011 in a lavish Jewish wedding ceremony in Hong Kong. He is a Jewish-Canadian businessman and former CEO of Li & Fung.

Rest in peace Coco Lee.

Watch her performance in 1999 at the “Michael Jackson & Friends” concerts: