The family’s statement said Cole died on Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles from “ongoing health issues”.
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The album Unforgettable… With Love spent five weeks at No. 1 on the US pop charts, sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and won six Grammy Awards.
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On this album, she fully embraced her father’s legacy by performing updated jazz-pop versions of his signature hits, including “Paper Moon”, “Straighten Up and Fly Right”, “L-O-V-E”, “Route 66” and “Mona Lisa” that evoked vivid memories of her father even as they allowed her to reassert her own distinctive style and broad resources as a vocalist.
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She began as a 1970s soul singer hyped as the next Aretha Franklin and peaked in the 1990s as an old-fashioned stylist and time-defying duet partner to her late father, Nat “King” Cole. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Singer Natalie Cole talks to the media during a news conference Monday, Aug. 17, 2015 with musician David Foster and other artists for their upcoming concert in suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines.
A rehab stint in 1983 turned her life around, she said.
Natalie Cole grew up in Los Angeles’ posh Hancock Park neighborhood, where her parents had settled in 1948 despite animosity from some white residents about having the black singer as a neighbor.
Cole pictured in 1975.
Given that Natalie Cole had neither the improv chops nor the artistic bohemianism of, say, jazz mavericks like Dianne Reeves or Cassandra Wilson, her jazz discography (including records like 1993’s Take a Look, 1996’s Stardust and 2008’s Still Unforgettable) is competent, genteel, tasteful and respectable, but hardly transcendent. But she went to the University of MA in Amherst with no plans of an entertainment career. Her publicist confirmed Cole’s death to the Associated Press.
Cole broke out in 1975 with the hit “This Will Be”, which won the Grammy for best R&B female performance and also earned her the Grammy for best new artist.
Natalie also popped up on TV, with appearances in the likes of Touched By An Angel and Grey’s Anatomy.
“She was always so kind & exuded so much grace”. She was married three times.
She is survived by her son. Despite chemotherapy, both kidneys failed, and in 2009, she went public with a request for a kidney donation.
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“I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars”, she told People magazine.
