Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon singer Coco Lee died on Wednesday following a suicide attempt that left her in a coma, Lee’s two sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, said in a statement posted on Instagram and Facebook. She was 48.

Lee died at the Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong where she had been living.

“Although Coco sought professional help and did her best to fight depression, sadly that demon inside of her took the better of her,” the statement said.

“On July 2, she committed suicide at home and was sent to the hospital. Despite the best efforts of the hospital team to rescue and treat her from her coma, she finally passed away on July 5, 2023,” the statement said.

Lee’s career spanned around 30 years. Among her most notable performances were voicing the female warrior Mulan in the Mandarin-language version of Disney’s Mulan and performing the Oscar-nominated song A Love Before Time from the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

She was born in Hong Kong in 1975 and was the youngest of three children of a Hong Kong Cantonese mother and Malaysian father.

Lee was hugely popular in China and Taiwan, especially in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and her death prompted an outpouring of grief in both and wall-to-wall news coverage in Taiwan. One of the most-read hashtags on her death generated 200 million readings on China’s Weibo microblogging site.

Lee’s father passed away before she was born, and by the age of 9, her mother had moved Lee and her sisters to San Francisco. After graduating high school in 1992, she was offered a recording contract in Hong Kong.

Reuters