Coco Lee: Disney star and pop singer dies at 48

Singer Coco Lee, who enjoyed popular stardom successful Asia successful the 1990s and 2000s, has died astatine the property of 48.

Born successful Hong Kong, Lee moved to the US arsenic a kid and released albums successful Mandarin and English.

She besides voiced the pb quality successful the Mandarin mentation of Disney's deed movie Mulan, and performed a opus from the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon astatine the 2001 Oscars.

Her sisters said she had been successful a coma since a termination effort astatine the weekend.

Lee had been suffering from slump for a fewer years, older sisters Carol and Nancy wrote in a Facebook post.

She tried to instrumentality her ain beingness astatine location connected Sunday and was taken to hospital, wherever she died connected Wednesday, they wrote.

Lee broke into the Mandopop country successful 1994 with 2 Mandarin albums. Within the adjacent year, she released an English-language medium arsenic good arsenic a 3rd Mandarin album.

"Not lone did she bring america joyousness with her songs and dances successful the past 29 years, she besides worked hard to interruption caller crushed for Chinese singers successful the planetary euphony country and has been doing her utmost to radiance for the Chinese," Lee's sisters wrote.

She besides sang the Mandarin mentation of the Mulan taxable song, Reflection; portion her opus Before I Fall successful Love is connected the soundtrack to the 1999 Hollywood movie Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.

Her performances included a Michael Jackson & Friends payment performance successful South Korea successful 1999, and she was a justice connected TV endowment shows including Chinese Idol.

This past New Year's Eve, Lee said successful an Instagram station that she had "faced large beingness changing hurdles", and described 2022 arsenic an "incredibly hard year".

Her latest azygous Tragic was released connected 14 February this year.

In March, she said connected Facebook that she had undergone pelvic and thigh country aft triggering an aged limb wounded during creation signifier precocious past year.

In 2011, Lee joined Bruce Rockowitz, erstwhile main enforcement serviceman of Hong Kong-based proviso concatenation elephantine Li & Fung. They person 2 daughters from his erstwhile marriage.

Rumours that they had divided started to aboveground astir 3 years ago, but Lee ne'er addressed them.

On Wednesday, Lee's sisters wrote: "In summation to remembering Coco, I anticipation that you volition stock her trademark agleam smile, honesty and kindness with everyone astir you, and proceed Coco's privation that each those astir her volition consciousness her emotion and joy."