‘Our beloved mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever’. 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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The recording featured many of Nat “King” Cole’s most famous songs, including “Mona Lisa“, “Too Young“, “Route 66” and “Unforgettable”, in which Ms. Cole’s voice was spliced with her father’s to make a poignant posthumous duet.
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Cole’s mother, Maria Cole, also had been a singer with the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. It was an instant success, and Cole went on to release more than 20 albums, including her best-selling “Unforgettable …”
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The following decade, Ms. Cole launched her career, making her professional recording debut in 1975 with the album “Inseparable”.
At age six, Cole recorded a duet with her father, I’m Good Will, You’re Christmas Spirit. She ended up taking his place in the group and setting a medical career aside.
In her 2000 autobiography Angel On My Shoulder, the singer opened up about her heroin, crack cocaine and alcohol addiction.
She received a directed donation of a kidney from a deceased donor in May 2009.
Timolin Cole, singer Natalie Cole and Casey Cole attend Natalie Cole’s 60th Birthday Celebration at TAO on February 4, 2010 in New York City. I mean, is there a song for you that really encapsulates her work? I sang “This Will Be” on the American Idol tour w/ @mdoolittle, my favorite part of that show. I mean, she was part of the black pop tradition that goes back many, many years.
KING: I look at Natalie Cole as one of the great R&B of the last 40 years.
Cole’s death was confirmed by publicist Maureen O’Connor. Tony Bennett was one of the renowned singers who wrote about Cole’s passing on Instagram, where he also posted a photo of himself with Natalie. On the outside, Cole was fulfilling her father’s legacy and drawing comparisons to Aretha Franklin. 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.
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The R&B singer, who was born into music royalty, was just 65 when she died of complications stemming from an ongoing battle with illness. She saw and touched the world through her journey of life and with her lovely voice.
