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Use dmy dates|date=September 2011Multiple issues|peacock = October 2010|cleanup = October 2010|fansite = December 2010|BLP sources = October 2010|copy edit=October 2011|cleanup-link rot = December 2011Contains Chinese textInfobox Chinese-language singer and actor | name =Coco Lee linktext|?|?| image =2009 TICFE Autumn Opening CoCo Lee.jpg| caption =| chinesename =linktext|?|?| tradchinesename =linktext|?|?|?| simpchinesename =linktext|?|?|?| pinyinchinesename =Li? Wén?| jyutpingchinesename =Lei5 Man4| birth_name =linktext|?|?|?| ancestry = Hong Kong | origin = Hong Kong | birth_date =birth date and age|df=yes|1975|1|17| birth_place = Hong Kong | death_date =| death_place =| restingplace =| othername =Ferren Lee| occupation =singer, songwriter, actress| genre =Pop, Chinese pop|C-pop , dance-pop , Hip hop music|hip hop , Contemporary R& B|R& B , adult contemporary , Soul music|soul | instrument =| voicetype =| label = Capital Artists , Fancy Pie , Sony Music Entertainment , 550 Music , Epic Records|Epic , Sony BMG , Warner Music | yearsactive =1993–present| awards = Awards 1994 Top 10 Most Popular Idol Best New Artist awards the Golden Dragon Chart Awards 1996 Best-selling album (Coco Lee) of 1996 Best MV (Yesterday's passion) Awards 1997 Best Female Artist by the Best 10 Artists MTV Asia Music Awards 1998 Best Album (DiDaDi) Best Music Video (DiDaDi) MTV/CCTV Chinese Music Awards 1999 Artist of the year Radio Music Awards 1999 (Singapore) Best international newcomer Yale and Harvard Universities 2000 Asian-American of the year Best Performer of the year Awards in Hong Kong 2001 Best Mandarin Female Artist Top 10 Artist of the Year International Golden Melody Awards Malaysia 2001 Most Popular Stage Showmanship Female '''M'sia Awards 2002 best song MTV/CCTV Chinese Music Awards 2002 Best female artist of the year MTV Style Awards China 2003''' Breakthrough International Artist of the Year Asia's Most Outstanding Performercite web |url= http://www.cocolee.net/home/news/news-e-03-11.html |title=MTV Style Awards China 2003 Winners|accessdate=2008-03-11 |date=29 November 2003 Lycra Style Awards 2004 Asian Style Artistcite web |url= http://english.cri.cn/2007/2004-11-27/67@172922.htm |title=Lycra Style Awards|accessdate=2008-03-07 |date=27 November 2004 10 Best dressed of 2004 Changchun festival 2004 Best new talent (Master of everything) QQ Star Awards 2010 Female Singer of the Year 2009 Album of the Year 2009 Hit Music Awards 2010 Best song of the year 2009 (BYOB) Best female artist in Taiwan and Hong Kong area of the year 2009 Awards 2010 China’s Top 10 Barbie Dream Girls This list is not exhaustive . Infobox Chinese|s=linktext|?|?|t=linktext|?|?|p=Li? Wén? |j=Lei5 Man4 | showflag=jyp
Chinese name| Li (?)|Lee Coco Lee (zh|c=linktext|?|?|p=Li? Wén?), born on 17 January 1975,cite web |url= http://www.perfectpeople.net/celebrity-star/209/coco-lee.htm |title=Coco Lee- Biography, Gallery, Forum and Videos|accessdate=2008-02-01 |date=1 February 2002 also known by her official English name as Ferren Lee , is an American pop singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Coco started her career in Hong Kong but, after becoming popular in Taiwan, she was widely considered to be a Taiwan artist. She was born to a Chinese Indonesian father cite web |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=d8iIL3wzAow |title=???????? ?????????? - part 1 (00:21)|accessdate=2011-11-20 |year =2009 and a Hong Kong Chinese mother. http://dailynews.sina.com/bg/ent/hktwstar/sinchewdaily/20091210/2149952058.html http://dailynews.sina.com/bg/ent/hktwstar/sinchewdaily/20091210/2149952058.html. Dailynews.sina.com (11 December 2009). Retrieved on 2011-09-10. She is the only Asian artist to have multiple top-three singles in the MTV Asia Hitlist . "Do You Want My Love" also entered the US music charts . Her first full-length English album was Just No Other Way . She speaks Hong Kong Cantonese|Cantonese , Mandarin Chinese and English fluently.
As a Chinese-American,Lee is the first and only Han Chinese|person of Chinese ethnicity to perform in the Oscars, singing the Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song, " A Love Before Time ", from the movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon , in the 73rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles.cite web |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=P96lPMJSECY |title=CoCo Lee – A Love Before Time(73rd Oscar)|accessdate=2008-02-01 |year =2004 She provided the voice of Mulan in the Standard Mandarin|Mandarin version of Disney 's animated feature of the same name. http://www.askmen.com/women/singer/38_coco_lee.html www.askmen.com/women/singer/38_coco_lee.html
In 2001, Asia Weekly magazine named Lee as one of the most powerful people in Asia on their Power 50 list.cite web |url= http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4c13ebfd0100813j.html |title=Chinese Pop Music History 20 Years Special – CoCo Lee |accessdate=2007-12-12 |date=12 December 2007
Early life and family
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Lee is the youngest of three children. She has two elder sisters, Nancy, who was her manager before, and Carol. Her father died when she was young. When she was 9 years old, her mother brought Lee and her sisters to live in San Francisco .
There, Lee went to Presidio Middle School . After secondary school where she was the volleyball team captain, she attended Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School in San Francisco, where she was student council president for four years in a row. In 1991, she represented her high school in the Miss Teen Chinatown Pageant, winning first place. She also won first place in a local karaoke contest. She started medical (biology) studies at the University of California Irvine .
Lee married Canadian businessman Bruce Philip Rockowitz on 27 October 2011 in Hong Kong.
Career
Early
After Lee's high school graduation in 1992, she went back to Hong Kong to see her sisters' participate in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant . While there, she became first runner-up in the 12th Annual New Talent Singing Awards by singing Whitney Houston 's Run to you . The following day, Capital Artists asked her to sign a contract with them.
She made her debut by appearing in several compilation albums, such as ''Red Hot Hits '93 Autumn Edition (????93???). In 1994, working with Fancy Pie Records, she released her first solo albums in Mandarin, Love from Now On (??????) and Promise Me (???). In 1995, she released an English language cover album, Brave Enough to Love , as well as her third Mandarin album, Woman in Love (?????).
Work with Sony
In 1996, Lee signed a contract with Sony Music Entertainment . " Coco Lee " became the best-selling album of 1996 in Asia, notably with the song ''Yesterday's passion'' (???). Her second English cover album was "CoCo's Party". In 1997, she released the Mandarin album "Sincere" as well as a self-titled Cantonese album. In 1998, the Mandarin album Di Da Di was released and sold to 1 million copies in less than 3 months.
For her next album Sunny day , Lee registered the song Colors of the world for the opening of the Football World Cup, http://cdtrrracks.com/Various/Allez!Ola!Ole!%20The%20World%20Cup%2098/ Various • Allez!Ola!Ole& #33; The World Cup 98 • cdtrrracks. Cdtrrracks.com. Retrieved on 2011-09-10. and the song The answer (??) for the Chinese movie Bishonen . Walt Disney Pictures hired her to sing the theme song "Reflection" (??) and be the voice of the heroine Fa Mulan in the Mandarin version of Mulan . The English version of the song appears on her maxi single Take a chance on love (?????) as well as Missing you in 365 days (???365?), the soundtrack of the cartoon Lotus lantern .
On August, 1998, Coco performed in Taiwan to a concert audience of more than 30,000 fans, the second largest concert audience in Taiwan (a feat that only Michael Jackson has claimed in the past).
In 1999, Lee sang When you tell me that you love me with Julio Iglesias . This song appears on the Asian version of his album My life : The greatest hits . She sang Married you (??????), the theme song of the movie Notting Hill which appears on her Mandarin album ''Today til' forever (?????).
She performed in Michael Jackson 's "Michael Jackson and friends" charity concert.
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International career
In 1999, 550 Music represented Lee with her stateside debut album, Just No Other Way . Her love song Before I Fall In Love was included in the soundtrack of the movie Runaway Bride (1999 film)|Runaway Bride . She had a duet called ''Can't get over with singer Kelly Price . In 2000, she got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. http://weibo.com/1768110805/ezg6ENE4Juy ????????? ????-?????????????. Weibo.com (27 April 2011). Retrieved on 2011-09-10.Verify credibility|date=May 2011 Lee recorded from The United States the Chinese songs "We meet the future" and "Hand in hand" for SARS Clarify|date=May 2011 with other artists including Wang Lee Hom , Stephanie Sun , Elva Hsiao and Jolin Tsai .
Back in China, she released a Mandarin album You & me . The track True lover (???) held n#1 spot for 13 weeks.citation needed|date=December 2010 In 2001, Lee sang the song A Love Before Time for the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon . This song appears in English in the soundtrack album and in Mandarin (????) in her album named Promise Coco released in October 2001. It contains So crazy , Dao ma dan (???) written by the singer Jay Chou , ''Baby I'm sorry (Baby???) a cover of A Puro Dolor by Son By Four, or I'm still in love , the theme song for the movie Serendipity .
In 2002, Lee released her remix album D. Is Coco (Dance is Coco). She sang a song against tobacco called ''From the beginning til' the end (????) with singer Jacky Cheung . She sang the anti racism song A dream of one with Korean singer Jin Young Park.
In 2003, she performed with Shaggy (musician)|Shaggy at the "MTV Asia awards" in Singapore and also presented the show with him.
Lee co-starred in the Chinese comedy movie Master of Everything (????) with John Lone , which won the Best Foreign Film award in the 2005 Beverly Hills Film Festival . In 2004, as the YouthAIDS ambassador, she attended the global AIDS conference in Bangkok , Thailand as the representative of the Asian artists to meet various youth groups discussing what she can do to educate them about AIDS. In 2005, Sony BMG released her second English album, Exposed (CoCo Lee album)|Exposed . This album contains the Korean soundtrack of '' Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle|Charlie's Angels 2 called All around the world and a duet called No doubt with Indian rapper Blaaze . The album was banned in Mainland China for sexy lyrics in a few songs such as Touch or So good . http://www.freemuse.org/sw10644.asp China: Hong Kong pop star CoCo Lee’s new album banned. Freemuse. Retrieved on 2011-09-10.
Lee's Just Want You (???) was released on 22 September 2006. It features the single "Hip-Hop Tonight" with Vanness Wu and Never ending love (???) a cover of Kylie Minogue 's Boombox .
On 22 September 2007, Lee returned to the United States for two live concerts, the first at Harrah's in San Diego and the second at the Shoreline Amphitheater in San Francisco, with special guest Alex To .
In 2008, Lee was chosen to sing one of the 2008 Summer Olympics|Olympic songs, " Forever Friends (song)|Forever Friends ", opposite Sun Nan . http://en.beijing2008.cn/culture/songs/n214206508.shtml Sun Nan and Coco Lee film 'Forever Friends' music video – The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. En.beijing2008.cn. Retrieved on 2011-09-10. She changed her record company to work with Warner Music (Taiwan) from Music Nation .
In 2009, Lee ranked No.15 on E& #33; Entertainment's list of the world's 25 sexiest pop divas. http://english.cri.cn/6666/2009/02/27/1321s458566.htm Coco Lee, No.15 Sexiest Pop Divas in the World. English.cri.cn (27 February 2009). Retrieved on 2011-09-10.
On 14 August, she released her new Mandarin album East to west (CoCo???) with Warner Music . It contains the songs "Party time", "Turn" (??) which is the soundtrack of the movie "The Legend of Silkboy" (?????-???) for the Expo 2010|Shanghai World Expo 2010 , the cover of Jay Sean 's " Maybe (Jay Sean song)|Maybe " called "Love now" (????), and "BYOB" ("Bring Your Own Bag") a song to encourage people to bring and recycle their own shopping bags to save the environment.
She recorded the song "Smile Shanghai" (????) with other artists including JJ Lin , Andy Lau , Jam Hsiao or Jane Zhang for Expo 2010|Shanghai World Expo 2010 .
A limited version of her album East to west was released on 17 March 2010. It contains 3 more songs : Hello C , a remix of Turn and Younger and longer (??) which is Barbie s 50th Anniversary song.
On 27 March 2010, Lee began her "East2West" World Tour Concert in Taipei at Taipei Arena . She pursued at the Encore Theatre in Wynn Casino in Las Vegas metropolitan area|Las Vegas on 3 and 4 July, then in Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore on 2 October http://www.sportshub.com.sg/eventsCalender.asp? filter=10,2010& event_id=378 Singapore Indoor Stadium. Sportshub.com.sg. Retrieved on 2011-09-10. and in Nanning on 16 December.
Current career
In March 2011, Lee was one of many artists participating in the recording of "Artists 311 Love Beyond Borders" (?????311????) official theme song called Succomb not to sorrow (??????) in Cantonese version.
On 7 April 2011, her song Dreams on oriental seas (???????) featuring Sun Nan was broadcasted. It has been named as he theme for the 14th FINA world championships, that took place in Shanghai on July, 16, 2011. http://www.fina.org/pool/index.php? option=com_simplecalendar& controller=simplecalendar& view=detail& id=28& Itemid=139 Calendar | Event detail :: 14th FINA World Championships. Fina.org (16 July 2011). Retrieved on 2011-09-10.
On 14 April 2011, Coco registered How am I supposed to live without you with Michael Bolton . The song appears on Michael's album Gems (Michael Bolton album)|Gems: The Duets Collection (Asian Edition) released on October 3 in the UK, http://www.cdwow.com/CD/michael-bolton-gems-the-duets-album-asian-edition/dp/23602575/41368811 on October 7 in Taiwan and October 11 in the US. http://www.amazon.com/Gems-Duets-Album-Michael-Bolton/dp/B005LY46QY/ref=sr_1_1? s=music& ie=UTF8& qid=1316647566& sr=1-1
On 8 June 2011, Lee announced that she set up her own studio. That way, she's more free to write and produce music that she loves.
On 25 June, her song Four seas alliance (????), the theme song for the 2011 China television drama All men are brothers (???), was broadcasted.
For her wedding, Coco registered the song I just wanna marry u (Chinese and English version), which was released on October, 24, 2011.
A new album is planned to be released in 2012.
Discography
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Studio albums
;Fancy Pie Records releases
June 1994: Love from Now On (??????)
December 1994: Promise Me (???)
June 1995: Brave Enough to Love (????; all-English album)
September 1995: Woman in Love (?????)
December 1995 : You are in my heart concert (?????)
August 1996 : Beloved Collection (????)
May 1997: Dance with the wind (????)
; Sony Music releases
March 1996: CoCo Lee ( Yesterday love )
November 1996: ''CoCo's Party
June 1997: Sincere /????? ( Everytime I think of you )
November 1997: CoCo Lee /?????? ( Be careful next time )
January 1998: DiDaDi Hints (??/????) (HMV Music Chart: #1)
July 1998: Sunny Day
December 1998 : Million fans concert (???)
May 1999: Today Until Forever (?????)
; 550/Epic Music release
November 1999: Just No Other Way (HMV Music Chart: #1)
; Sony Music releases
January 2000 : The Best of My Love
August 2000: True Lover You and Me (???)
October 2001: Promise CoCo
June 2002 : D.IS CoCo (????? + ????)
; Sony BMG releases
March 2005: Exposed (HMV Music Chart: #1)
September 2006: Just Want You (HMV Music Chart: #1)
May 2008 : 1994–2008 Best Collection
; Warner Music releases
August 2009: East To West ( CoCo ???)
Maxi singles
;Sony Music releases
April 1998 : Di da di color remix
August 1998 : Take a chance on love
;550 Music releases
1999 : Do you want my love
2000 : Wherever you go
Compilations
;Capital Artists releases
June 1993 : ''Red hot hits 93' Autumn edition http://lh4.ggpht.com/_x9bPXf77xGc/StXTfYwlTUI/AAAAAAAAHx8/zlAM28zZfqg/s800/lalala01.jpg'' (????93'???)
;Capital Artists and Fancy Pie releases
September 1994 : ''Red hot hits 94' Love Party http://www.imusic.cn/pic/07/13/50_20080618_152357_5137s.jpg dead link|date=September 2011'' (????94'?? Party )
November 1994 : Statement of love, duet songs (????, ????)
December 1994 : Merry Christmas (????)
1995 : ''I'm still your lover (best of Love from now on and Promise me )cite web|url= http://cgi.ebay.com/HK-POP-COCO-LEE-FIRST-ALBUM-HONG-KONG-CD-1ST_W0QQitemZ300371867867QQihZ020QQcategoryZ307QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D4%26ps%3D63|title=HK POP COCO LEE ???????? FIRST ALBUM HONG KONG CD 1ST – eBay (item 300371867867 end time Mar-28-10 01:56:29 PDT)
Videography
;Fancy Pie releases
1995 : Foot print
1995 : ''You're in my heart concert
; Sony Music releases
1996 : ''Coco's workout camp
1998 : Coco in Italy
1998 : Di da di
1998 : Sunny day
1999 : Million fans concert
; 550 Music releases
2000 : The Video Collection
; Sony Music releases
2002 : Coco so crazy
2002 : All my Coco
2004 : Master of everything
External links
http://www.cocolee.net Coco Lee's official Website (English/Chinese)
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