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CoCo Lee Profile |
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Birth Date: January 17, 1976
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Birth Place: Hong Kong
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Birth Name: Ferren Lee
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Height: 5'3"
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Biography |
CoCo Lee is the stage name of Ferren Lee-Kelly (born January
17, 1975). She is a Chinese pop singer, Urban contemporary
and Dance-pop star, popular in the 1990s, who has also
recorded albums in English, contributed to several movies
and represented internationally-known products to the Asian
market.
CoCo Lee was born in Hong Kong with ancestry from Harbin,
China. Her father died when she was young, and CoCo moved at
age 10 with her mother, step-father and sisters to
California. She went through school while experimenting with
her singing voice, and followed her older sisters in
entering several local singing contests.CoCo Lee attended
Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School in San Francisco.
Coco later had a brief enrollment at the University of
California at Irvine. CoCo is close to her mother, who has
at times managed her career.
After Lee's high school graduation in 1993, she took a
holiday in Hong Kong, probably seeing her two sisters'
(Carol Lee and Nancy Lee) participation of Miss Hong Kong
Pageant, and while there she came runner-up in the 12th
Annual New Talent Singing Awards. The following day, she was
approached by local record label Fancy Pie Records.
CoCo Lee was represented by Fancy Pie Records from 1994 to
1995, recording four albums with them. She later signed with
another record company in 1996 by Sony Music, who has
continued to represent her ever since.
As of 2007, CoCo Lee has yet to break the U.S. market with a
big smash hit single. Although both her English albums have
sold modestly, regular airplay and recurrent airplay by
radio programmers is still lacking. This is the main reason
she has not been as successful with her English language
output. Her moderate hit single, "Do You Want My Love",
remains popular at discotheques and various internet radio
stations. Her most recent English single aimed at the North
American market is titled "No Doubt," the lead single from
the album "Exposed." Once again because of lax programming
on radio station playlists, this single was ignored by
radio. The singles have become chart and video television
hits in Hong Kong and Taiwan among other places. The second
single from "Exposed" is the song "So Good" whose music
video is increasingly run on Hong Kong and Taiwanese MTV.
Coco's follow up album to her C-Pop hit album "Promise",
titled "Just Want You," features the hit single "Hip-Hop
Tonight" with Vanness Wu, which follows in the same vein as
"No Doubt." The album "Just Want You" was released on
September 22, 2006. The second single from the album was
"The Ninth Night", followed by the third single "Love You At
85°C" and the final single, "Dangerous Lover".
Coco is currently working on a new album, which she plans to
release in the autumn 2007. Coco Lee will return to the San
Francisco bay area for a live concert at the Shoreline
Amphitheatre on September 22, 2007 with special guest Alex
To. It will be her first live performance in her hometown in
several years. |
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Other
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Grew up in San Francisco.
Miss Teenage Chinatown, 1991.
Languages spoken: English, Cantonese, Mandarin.
Intends to enter medical school and become a physician like
her mother.
Was ranked 3rd of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan
(2001).
Won the Miss Chinese-America Pageant in 1991
Has 2 older sisters |
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since November 12, 2007