Singer Natalie Cole passed away on the eve of new year, her publicist Maureen O’Connor announced on January 1.
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Today, her son Robert Yancy, and twin sister Timolin and Casey Cole have released a statement regarding the 65-year-old “Unforgettable” singer’s death.
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Cole was born in Los Angeles to Nat King Cole and Maria Hawkins Ellington, a former Duke Ellington singer.
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A physically weakened Cole, victor of nine Grammy Awards, was forced to cancel a string of concert performances over the last three months after a recurrence of hepatitis C linked to her earlier drug abuse.
In an interview at the time with People magazine, Cole said of the diagnosis: “My life crumbled before my eyes”. The Associated Press reported that she died Thursday night. Natalie had traveled with her father to Mexico and Europe in the ’50s, and a trip to Mexico when she was 8 inspired the 2013 album Natalie Cole En Español, which includes another posthumous father-daughter duet, “Acércate Mas”.
The multiple Grammy award winning artist rocketed to stardom in 1975 with her debut album, Inseparable.
Cole began a comeback in the late ’80s that was capped by 1991’s “Unforgettable…”
She had her first break singing in clubs as the daughter of Nat “King” Cole, but struggled to find her niche as she chose a sound far more modern than her father’s standards. “I’m not like that”, she told The Los Angeles Times in 1985.
In a 2008 interview with The Times, she spoke about an illness that caused fluid-filled lungs and rapidly deteriorating kidneys.
Cole eventually became active in raising awareness of Hepatitis C. And, she said in the interview, she still wished her father could see her. Natalie Cole’s move into jazz was a total boss move: by the ’90s, R&B was becoming harder-edged and more hip-hop influenced (think Mary J. Blige), leaving considerably less space for the sentimental romantic balladry that had first made her popular in the ’70s. A year later, she received a new kidney from a deceased fan. Just as we should talk more about the brilliance of acts like Natalie Cole, we should also talk more about the work of her peer acts like The Pointer Sisters and Minnie Riperton and a whole host of other talents who too often get pushed under the radar.
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Cole won a Grammy for best female R&B performances as well as best new artist for the 1975 “This Will Be” from the “You” album. On the outside, Cole was fulfilling her father’s legacy and drawing comparisons to Aretha Franklin.
