Her family said in a statement: “It is with heavy hearts that we bring to you all the news of our mother and sister’s passing”. “Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived – with dignity, strength and honour”.
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The statement was signed by Cole’s only child, Robert Yancey, and her twin sisters, Timolin and Casey Cole. She claimed the Grammy Award for best new artist, and her song “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” – heard years later in commercials for eHarmony, the dating website – won for best R&B vocal performance by a female singer.
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Her career was inextricably linked to that of her father. Her top-selling album was the 1991 record Unforgettable… with Love, in which Cole paid tribute to her father’s biggest hits.
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In contrast to the rags-to-riches stories of many other artists of her generation, Cole was raised in relative affluence in Los Angeles.
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 of cancer in 1965. The album was a phenomenon, its appeal crossing audiences and generations; it collected a bevy of Grammy Awards, including Album, Record and Song of the Year (though the song Unforgettable was at that point four decades old). “But, I sure remember her standing next to me, voice so pure & clear as a bell”. Then, in 1987, Cole sang pop music and put out the album “Everlasting”, along with making the cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Pink Cadillac”. However, she rose into her own musical fame during the 1970’s with her first album “Inseparable”, in 1975 (winning two Grammys).
The success of “Unforgettable” capped her comeback after a dark period of heroin, crack and alcohol abuse.
“I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage”, Cole said in accepting her awards.
At the same time, she lived a tumultuous personal life, with arrests, she wrote in her memoir, for offenses including drug possession, counterfeiting checks and shoplifting. The hepatitis led to the need for a kidney transplant back in May 2009, as well as having to undergo chemotherapy. Cole recently canceled several concert tour dates due to illness. “With Love”, which sold roughly 14 million copies, as well as winning six Grammy’s, and featured several re-done versions of her late father’s most beloved tunes. Natalie Cole’s voice was perfection.
Her father’s graceful easygoing style was admired by Sinatra, Ray Charles and many others and, in 1956, he became the first black entertainer to host a national TV variety show. While in college, she performed with bands and set aside plans for being a child psychologist.
The singer was born on February 6 in 1950 in Los Angeles.
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Her own life saved, Cole was devastated at the loss of her sister, but grateful to the family of the woman whose kidney she received.
