Coco Lee

CoCo Lee is one of those artists I think deserves far more recognition in the West than she ever got. A Chinese-American performer who broke through in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the nineties, she became a genuine pan-Asian diva, and singing "A Love Before Time" at the Oscars for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon put her on a stage few Asian artists reached then. Her death in 2023 at only 48 hit hard. What strikes me is the range, singer, dancer, composer and producer, plus a UC Irvine background. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States, her real story is that of a boundary-crossing icon of Chinese pop.

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Name (English)

Coco Lee

Name (Japanese)

ココ・リー

Reading

ここ・りー

Born

January 17, 1975 – July 5, 2023

Origin

British Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Height

162 cm

Occupation

musician / dancer / singer / composer / record producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

University

University of California, Irvine

• Official sitehttps://www.cocolee.net
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/cocolee/
• Xhttps://x.com/cocolee117
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco%20Lee
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q703216

Tags

• musician
• dancer
• singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.