Coco Lee
Coco Lee was born in British Hong Kong, United Kingdom on January 17th, 1975 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 48, Coco Lee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Coco Lee (Chinese: 李玟; pinyin: Li Wén; born Ferren Lee, 17 January 1975, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress.
Lee's career began in Hong Kong and then expanded to Taiwan.
Her single, "Do You Want My Love" also entered the US music charts.
Her first full-length English language album was Just No Other Way.
As a Chinese American, Lee is the first and only person of Chinese ethnicity to perform at the Oscars; she performed the Best Original Song nominated, "A Love Before Time" from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Early life
Lee was born in Hong Kong, she is the youngest of three children and was born to a Chinese Indonesian father and a Hongkong Cantonese mother. She has two elder sisters, Nancy, who was her manager before, and Carol. Her father died before she was born. When she was 9 years old, her mother brought Lee and her sisters to live in San Francisco. She attended Presidio Middle School and Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School, both in San Francisco. The summer after graduating from high school, she was offered a recording contract in Hong Kong and attempted to juggle her burgeoning career there with her studies at the University of California, Irvine but eventually left after her freshman year to concentrate on her pop career.
Personal life
Lee married Bruce Rockowitz (born 1958), a Jewish-Canadian businessman and former CEO of Li & Fung on 27 October 2011 in a lavish Jewish wedding ceremony in Hong Kong. For her wedding, she registered the song "I just wanna marry u" (Chinese and English version), which was released on 24 October 2011. In 2016, she revealed that she has two adult step-daughters from her husband's previous marriage.
Career
After Lee graduated from high school in 1992, she returned to Hong Kong to see her sisters compete in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant. While there, she appeared in the 12th Annual New Talent Singing Awards, and she was the first runner-up, performing Whitney Houston's Run to You. Capital Artists gave her a recording contract the following day. She made her debut by appearing on several compilation albums, one of which was called Red Hot Hits 93 is a female version (93). Love From Now On () and Promise Me (), her first solo albums on Mandarin, when she was working with Fancy Pie Records, were released in 1994. She released Brave Enough to Love, her third Mandarin album, Woman in Love, in 1995. Lee signed a Sony Music Entertainment deal in 1996, and her follow-up album, "Coco Lee," became Asia's best-selling album of 1996. She released Mandarin album "Sincere" in 1997 as well as a self-titled Cantonese album. In 1998, the Mandarin album Di Da Di Di was released and it was limited to 1 million copies in less than three months.
"Colors of the World" was used for the opening of the Football World Cup, and the song "The Answer () for the Chinese movie Bishonen was taken from her new album Sunny Day's Sunny Day. In the Mandarin version of Mulan, Walt Disney Pictures hired her to perform "Reflection" () and be the voice of the heroine Fa Mulan. Coco performed in Taiwan in August 1998 to a record audience of over 30,000 people (which only Michael Jackson has claimed in the past). She appeared in Michael Jackson's "Michael Jackson and Friends" charity benefit concert. Lee made her debut Just No Other Way in 1999, under 550 people, as well as the smashing hit, Do You Want My Love. Before I Fall In Love, the artist's love song, Before I Fall In Love, was included in the movie Runaway Bride's soundtrack. Can't get over with singer Kelly Price was another duet. Lee performed the charity singles "We meet the future" and "Hand in hand" for SARS, alongside other artists such as Wang Leehom, Stefanie Sun, Elva Hsiao, and Jolin Tsai. You & Me, a Mandarin album, is back in Asia. By 2000, she had released 20 albums in Asia and had sold 7.5 million copies of her albums on the continent. Lee sang the song A Love Before Time for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2001. Promise Coco was released in October 2001. Lee released her remix album D. Is Coco in 2002 (Dance is Coco). From the start to the end () with singer Jacky Cheung, she performed a song against nicotine. She performed The anti-racial song Aspire to one with Korean singer Jin Young Park. In 2003, she appeared with Shaggy at the "MTV Asia awards" in Singapore and also hosted the show with him. Lee co-starred in the Chinese comedy film Master of Everything (Jone) with John Lone, which received the Best Foreign Film award in the 2005 Beverly Hills Film Festival. She attended the global AIDS conference in Bangkok, Thailand, as the Asian artist ambassador, to consult with various youth groups to learn about AIDS.
Exposed, Sony BMG's second English album, was released in 2005. In a few songs like Touch or So good, the album was banned in mainland China for sexy lyrics. Just Want You () is Lee's newest Mandarin album that was released on September 22, 2006. Lee was chosen to perform "Forever Friends" in 2008, opposite Sun Nan. She moved her music company to Warner Music Group (Taiwan), according to Music Nation's Warner Music Group (Taiwan). She and Warner Music Group launched East to west, her latest Mandarin album East to west (CoCoCo). It includes the songs "Party Time" and "Turn" () from the film "The Legend of Silkboy"), which is a song that encourages people to bring and recycle their own shopping bags to save the earth. For Shanghai World Expo 2010, she recorded the song "Smile Shanghai" () with other performers including JJ Lin, Andy Lau, Jam Hsiao, or Jane Zhang. Lee launched her "East2West" World Tour Concert in Taipei on March 27, 2010. On July and July, she appeared at Encore Theatre in Las Vegas, then in Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore on October 2nd and in Nanning on December 16th. Lee was one of many artists on the recording of "Artists 311 Love Beyond Borders" (311) in Cantonese, one of many artists included in the recording of "Artists 311 Love Beyond Borders" (311), although he was the first artist to suffer not to be sad (). Sun Nan's song Dreams on oriental seas () was broadcast on April 7, 2011. It was chosen as the theme for the 14th FINA world championships, which took place in Shanghai on July 16, 2011.
Lee announced on June 8th, 2011 that she had opened her own studio. The theme song for the 2011 China television drama All male brothers (), which was broadcast on June 25, was Four Seas alliance (). Will.i.am and apl.de performed at "Booey Lehoo Concert" in Beijing on December 17, 2011. Will.am, apl.de. and Taboo from The Black Eyed Peas performed at "I AM WILL / I AM ANGEL Benefit Concert" at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on February 9, 2012.
Universal Music's latest album, Illuminate () was released on May 31, 2013.
She appeared on the fourth season of the Chinese reality show I Am A Singer in 2016, but she confessed that losing her voice to bronchitis in 2014 had harmed her singing skills. However, she recovered from it and participated, eventually winning the competition, becoming the first non-mainland Chinese singer to do so. Lee later returned for two more seasons (now rebranded with the new title Singer); on the fifth season of the biennial festival; and as a guest artist for Jessie J, the eventual champion of the season.