Singer CoCo Lee mourned by family and fans at emotional funeral
Lee, a multilingual artist and one of the first Chinese singers to break into the US mainstream, died earlier this month at age 48 after a long battle with depression, according to her family. Fans braved Hong Kong’s sweltering summer heat to line up outside a funeral home where both a private and public memorial service were held ahead of her cremation. Dressed in black, many holding bouquets of white flowers, they waited for hours for a chance to say goodbye to their idol.
In 2001, she performed at the Oscars with “A Love Before Time,” a romantic ballad from martial arts blockbuster “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” which won best foreign film that year. Director Ang Lee recalled how the singer vowed to give it her all at that performance in the hope she could help boost Asian representation at the awards. “Her cute image is still in my heart, always sunny and decent. We really think it’s a great loss,” the director said in a message played at the funeral.
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