The family added, “Our beloved mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever”.
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In a technical feat considered novel in the day, Cole sang the title track – with its elegant, string-backed opening line “Unforgettable, that’s what you are” – in a duet with her father who had died in 1965.
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Though Nat “King” Cole died when Natalie was 15, his music lived on through many of Natalie’s albums. Cole died yesterday at the age of 65.
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Cole achieved her greatest success with the 1991 album “Unforgettable…”
Natalie was well known for hits including This Will Be and a cover of Unforgettable with her father. Her hit “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” earned her a Grammy for best female R&B vocal performance in 1975. She again won the R&B Grammy the next year for “Sophisticated Lady”. “She passed last night and we were not with her as we are back in Florida, but she was in hospital with her son Robert, he was by her side”. On the inside, she was battling drug addiction. According to Entertainment Weekly, she released more than 20 albums during her career. She event underwent chemotherapy and antiviral drug called Ribavirin. She was married three times. The ease and the poise, not to mention the fact that she was already a legend at that time. The show received dozens of emails from fans offering her replacement kidneys.
Natalie Cole’s unforgettable voice has gone silent. However, she knew it would be with limitations. “I’m a fighter, not a chump”, she said.
In 2008, Cole opened up to World Health Organization about her journey.
Besides her earlier memoir, her books included “Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain” (2010), written with David Ritz, an account of her renal disease and wait for an organ donor.
But it was in honoring her father, and the American songbook, that Cole reached her pop peak. Their brother, Nat Kelly Cole, died in 1995.
Singer Patti LaBelle tweeted “Sending prayers and condolences to all the loved ones of my friend #NatalieCole!”. We shall never forget her defiant rendition of “Pink Cadillac” at the London concert in celebration of our former president Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday in 1988 at a time when he was still in prison and when apartheid repression was still at its height.
Cole had a light, supple, perpetually optimistic voice, full of syncopated turns and airborne swoops, drawing on both the nuances of jazz singing and the dynamics of gospel. Her later marriages to André Fischer, also a musician and producer, and to Kenneth Dupree, a pastor, ended in divorce.
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