On July 5, Li Silin, the second sister of singer Coco Lee, posted an obituary on her personal Weibo @李思林Nancy:
Coco Lee committed suicide at home on July 2, and was in a coma after being sent to the hospital. After the hospital team worked hard to rescue and treat her, she finally passed away on July 5.
I don’t know how many of you, like the author, have read this Weibo many times, especially staring at CoCo Lee’s subject and the description of “Long Die” many times, but can’t connect the two.
It wasn't until hot searches and news about Coco Lee's death, as well as push notifications from various media poured in on his mobile phone, that he finally believed that — that Coco Lee, who was optimistic, cheerful and forthright on stage and in front of the screen, had really left.
Coco Lee
The death of a public figure due to depression is unbelievable, and it often comes from the contrast between the public image of the artist and the final choice. On social networks, the author saw many people mention Korean artists Kim Jong-hyun and Goo Hara, Japanese artists Haruma Miura and Yuko Takeuchi, and Qiao Renliang from my country.
But the departure of Coco Lee may have given us more shock—almost every fragment of her in our memory is bright and moving, and she has constituted the common memory of several generations about the millennium.
In 1998, Coco Lee sang the episode "365 Days of Missing You" for the animated film "Lotus Lantern"
In 1998, Coco Lee sang the episode "Thinking of You 365 Days" from the animated movie "Lotus Lantern". Feel the charm of R&B singing.
Coco Lee's image and the slogan "Hello everyone is really good" is also the memory of a generation
In 2000, with the advertisement of "Hello everyone, the real good" shampoo products, the influence of centralized media made "Di Da Di" accompanied by Coco Lee's dancing hair, forming our impression One of the most profound TV commercial TVC.
In 2001, Coco Lee performed "Good Mood" in the CCTV Spring Festival Gala
In the 2001 Spring Festival Gala, Coco Lee wore a red dress and skinny jeans, with sequins on her neck, and an earhook microphone. She appeared on a pink air cushion sofa and performed a song "Good Mood". The last piece of the jigsaw puzzle for the area to be completely popular——Based on the author’s own impression, the audio-visual stores on the street and the supermarkets that had just emerged at that time all played "Good Mood" on a loop with high-power speakers, and even the notebooks in the stationery store Print the lyrics of "I feel good when I see you, like eating ice cream in summer" on the inner page.
Sexy and straightforward Coco Lee
"365 Days of Missing You", "Di Da Di" and "Good Mood" are probably the three deepest memories most audiences have of CoCo Lee. At that time, the image of Coco Lee was very powerful, because at that time, almost all the most well-known masterpieces of divas were bitter love songs. Even Anita Mui, who dominated the Cantonese music scene with "Bad Girl" in the early 1980s , the representative works in the Chinese music scene are still the complaint songs such as "Daughter Red" and "Woman Flower".
It turns out that sexy and frankness can coexist, and it turns out that charm and calmness are not contradictory. It is not an exaggeration to say that this kind of cognition was brought by Coco Lee.
Just mentioned that the reason why Coco Lee's popularity has emphasized the mainland is because she achieved career success earlier in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 1993, at the age of 16, she won the runner-up in the Hong Kong TVB Rookie Singing Contest, and made her debut in Hong Kong in the same year, and signed the record contract to China Star Records, which has close cooperation with TVB in Hong Kong, and the record contract in Taiwan is given to Arrived at Huaxing's partner Modernist Records in Taiwan.
Coco Lee when he first entered the industry
At that time, Huaxing Records had gradually shown signs of decline. Coco Lee's career really took off after the contract with Huaxing was completed and he signed a contract with Sony (now Taiwan's Sony) in 1996.
With the joining of Yao Qian, who was later known as the queen trader, and the support of Sony's thorough international operation, Coco Lee's second English album "CoCo's Party" sold more than 500,000 copies in Taiwan. Coco Lee continued to work steadily, advancing her career at the speed of two albums a year. In January 1998, "Di Da Di Hints" was released, and the sales volume in Asia exceeded an astonishing 1.8 million.
The cover of the album "Di Da Di Hint" released in 1998
According to the Taiwanese media, 1998 was the year of CoCo. This is by no means an exaggeration by the Taiwanese media:
In June of this year, Coco Lee released the original album "Sunny Day · Good Mood", which also sold over a million; at the same time, there was also a photo album; and the single "Color" recorded for the World Cup; The Chinese theme song "Myself" sung by Disney's animation "Mulan" and "365 Days of Missing You" sung for "Lotus Lantern"; In 1998, he set a record for the most people watching a Chinese singer's concert, breaking through 50,000 people.
Hsiao Yaxuan issued a message to mourn Lee Coco
Xiao Yaxuan said in her mourning Weibo: We lost the No. 1 singer and dance queen in the entertainment industry. She was my first teacher, and she was my queen since I was a child.
Coco Lee before and after the millennium really shook the Chinese music world, and even reshaped our existence of aesthetics for women, just like Coco Lee's shining 1998, and just like Coco Lee's record company's project slogan for her at that time—"bring the Chinese Bring music to the world, and bring world music to the Chinese." Coco Lee did it.
In the era when the whole world merged and the global village became a reality, she deserved to be the icon of Chinese music in the Y2K era.
The story that followed must have been read by you in different sources:
The theme song "Moonlight Lover" of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" made Coco Lee the only Chinese singer who performed at the Oscars so far; Disney Concert Hall held a Chinese singer; she was also the only Asian female singer guest at Michael Jackson's concert.
But the following facts, perhaps not so many people know:
In 2001, Coco Lee sang "Moonlight Lover" at the Oscars. In the final of the variety show "Singer" in 2016, she wore this red cheongsam again and won the song king with "Moonlight Lover".
In the Oscar performance, she deliberately dyed her hair back to black and put it up, and put on a red cheongsam; her performance in the NBA was at the Compaq Center Stadium, where Yao Ming played his first home game; In the track of the DVD, the elements of the Chinese flag with a red background and a yellow five-pointed star are used.
Coco Lee's style is not accepted by everyone. In the entertainment industry, the fast-food gaze has never stopped on Coco Lee: the sexy and hot style was not only at that time, even now that she has just passed away, many The self-media and netizens still deliberately derogate her with the words "the queen of electric buttocks, marrying a foreign husband".
At the peak of her career, Coco Lee, who became the spokesperson of Chanel in Asia, was also evaluated by Bao Yongqin, a rich woman in Hong Kong, as not suitable to be a spokesperson. ,an early closure.
And maybe today, more people know that Coco Lee's responsibilities are far more than these:
When she was born, Coco Lee's leg was pulled and dislocated by the doctor, and the operation failed at the age of 2, which brought about a leg injury that tormented her throughout her life. Displacement of the iliac joint.
Coco Lee said on Weibo on February 23 this year: I have endured pain for many years, and now it has prevented me from living a normal life. God forced me to face it. After dancing on stage for so many years, I actually rely on one leg to support the whole body. All of this depends on my own willpower.
Coco Lee interview screenshot
And many people, including me, learned from the obituary of Coco Lee's second sister that she had been suffering from depression for a long time, and she never talked about those pains in front of the camera.
Looking back at Coco Lee's news in recent years, I discovered the real Coco Lee buried under the entertainment news——
It turns out that every time her mother is mentioned in the interview, she will definitely cry; it turns out that she regards her mother and two sisters so important, and she also brought her two sisters to sing along with her when she first released the film; She is really not willing to give in to unreasonable rules; it turns out that she treats Andy Lau like every little star chasing girl does, after many years, she has to reproduce the idol's classic movie "If There Is Love" on the stage; it turns out that she treats Andy Lau Behind the back of my husband never saying bad words, he has undertaken so many betrayals and deceptions...
On the eve of his suicide, the source of Coco Lee’s voice message to fans @中国黎笑联盟
All this makes the news of Coco Lee's sudden death even more unacceptable.
The deceased is gone, I only hope that this small review will remind you of CoCo Lee in commercials, programs, and on stage, and remember this bright and shining queen CoCo.
And, when you can't hold on, don't hesitate to ask others for help, and reach out as much as possible when others send out a distress signal.