Multitalented personality, Coco Lee was an all-rounder when it came to entertainment. She was a beautiful actress and dancer, and an even more phenomenal singer. Hailing from Hong Kong, this was also the place where Lee first started building her career, eventually expanding to Taiwan and international spaces.
Born in 1975, Lee had only started her first year of college in 1992 when she decided to drop her studies for good and focus solely on pursuing her music career. Only two years later, Lee had the opportunity to put her first-ever solo album, titled Love From Now On, in Mandarin. She continued to release albums in Mandarin and a few others in English, but it was when she signed a contract with Sony Music Entertainment, that she was able to get her first big break.
With Sony, she released an album called, Coco Lee, in 1996, which went on to become the best-selling album of that year. Her success even more when, in 1998, she managed to sell a little over a million copies of her album Di Da Di, in a span of three months. Only a few years later, she was offered to voice Disney’s Mulan in Mandarin, which she proudly did.
She was known to have performed for a total of fifty thousand people in Taiwan, a record broken by only Michael Jackson, she also performed at Michael Jackson and Friends concert, sang for the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and managed to do so much more in her thirty-year long career.
Coco Lee managed to achieve so much that it is almost impossible to mention it without missing out on something or the other. While the musician definitely had more success coming her way, unfortunately, she ended up passing away very recently on 5th July 2023, when Lee’s sister revealed that she had attempted suicide and even though she was carried to the hospital to bring her back into consciousness, she ended up passing away only three days later.
The singer was only forty-eight years old when she passed, but she still managed to accomplish things not many could imagine, so let us take a look at Lee’s net worth and earnings, which she managed to put together after years of hard work.
Coco Lee’s Net Worth
Coco Lee’s net worth and earnings after breaking and making new records stood at a proud $5 million. The actress, singer, and dancer had been working in the industry since she was seventeen years old, and she worked non-stop till the age of forty-eight.
Ever since the success of her album titled Di Da Di, which sold a million copies, Lee managed to put out albums that continuously sold millions. Her primary source of earnings had her million-seller albums like Di Da Di, You & Me, and many others. By the time the year 2000 came around, Lee had managed to sell over 7.5 million in just album sales.
She was famous and successful enough to have worked with many Western artists, including Julio Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias, Kelly Rowland, and others. Not only did she get to perform at a concert with Michael Jackson, but she was also the first Chinese to perform her song A Love Before Time from the popular classic Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger, at the Academy Awards.
She was the first Chinese individual to become a brand ambassador for the famous luxury brand, Chanel. Her album sales, sold-out concerts, brand deals, and sponsorship from all kinds of luxury brands all added immensely to her net worth and earnings.
Lee is known to have owned a three-hundred-square-meter duplex located on the Shouson Hills, a place reserved mainly for the rich of Hong Kong. She has countless internationally acclaimed and top-ranking songs under her name and brilliant live performances of the same. She worked hard to make a name for not only herself but also managed to pave the way for other rookie Chinese artists.
Not much is known about the singer’s personal assets, properties, or investments except for the fact that almost all of her earnings were earned honestly and through hard work. We hope Lee’s soul rests easy and that she remains in eternal peace.
