“Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever”, read the statement from her son Robert Yancy and sisters Timolin and Casey Cole. It featured a duet with her father. She began her career as an R and B singer, but later gravitated toward the smooth pop and jazz standards that her father loved. Although she occasionally still had hits (Someone That I Used to Love (1980 / #21 Pop / #21 R&B / #3 AC), I Love For Your Love (1987 / #13 Pop / #4 R&B / #2 AC), Pink Cadillac (1988 / #5 Pop / #9 R&B / #16 AC), Miss You Like Crazy (1989 / #7 Pop / #1 R&B / #1 AC)), it was in 1991 that she had the biggest album of her career.
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NATALIE Cole, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose top-selling albums preserved the musical legacy of her father, Nat King Cole, and established her as a powerful musical talent in her own right.
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She enjoyed her first chart success in the mid-1970s with the song This Will Be, for which she picked up the first of nine Grammys – as 1975’s Best New Artist.
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She released eight albums in the first eight years of her career, working with Yancy on all of them, even after the two divorced in 1980.
That electric moment at the Academy Awards when R&B singer Natalie Cole stepped on stage with a microphone in her hand and waited for a video of her dead father, the legend Nat King Cole, to appear on a large screen remains etched in audience memories.
Another father-daughter duet, “When I Fall in Love”, won a 1996 Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals, and a follow-up album, “Still Unforgettable”, won for best traditional pop vocal album of 2008.
It has been reported in the previous years that Cole was struggling with a number of health issues but the cause of his death was congestive heart failure, according to some reports and noted by The New York Daily News. She was 15 when he died of lung cancer, in 1965.
She underwent a kidney transplant in 2009, which inspired her second book. Natalie was born and raised in Los Angeles where she was exposed early to numerous great singers of the time not only through their music but in person through her father, Nat, and mother Maria Hawkins who was a former singer with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
But in her 2000 autobiography, “Angel on My Shoulder”, Cole discussed how she had battled heroin, crack cocaine and alcohol addiction for many years.
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In an interview at the time with People magazine, Cole said of the diagnosis: “My life crumbled before my eyes”.
