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TMZ reports Natalie Cole dead at 65
Though Nat “King” Cole died when Natalie was 15, his music lived on through many of Natalie’s albums. Cole, the daughter of j…
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(AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File).
Stephanie Natalie Maria Cole was born in Los Angeles on February 6, 1950, and grew up in Hancock Park, an affluent neighborhood of that city.
When Cole got clean, she flirted with chart success once again, delivering so-so pop hits like the Aretha/”Freeway of Love”-styled “Pink Cadillac” and the Whitney Houston-styled “Miss You like insane”.
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File).
Natalie Cole performs at Jazz 91.9 WCLK’s 41st Anniversary Benefit Concert on June 26, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has joined the worldwide community in mourning the death of Natalie Cole, who died at the age of 65 in Los Angeles on Thursday night. She was, after all, the daughter of Nat King Cole, whose velvety baritone was one of the most distinctive voices of the 20th century.
She’s survived by a son and other family members. Their brother, Nat Kelly Cole, died in 1995. “I’m a fighter, not a chump”, she said. “She fought for so long. She represented the Cole legend of excellence and class quite well”.
Cole’s move to singing was accidental.
Cole, who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, wrote a pair of memoirs and starred in a 2001 made-for-TV movie “Livin’ For Love: The Natalie Cole Story”. As a young stand up comic I opened for Natalie Cole. I mean, is there a song for you that really encapsulates her work? “It took me weeks to recover”. In 1983, drug addiction led Cole to spend a few months at the Hazelden Clinic in Minnesota. “With Love”, a 1991 collection of Cole singing her father’s classic songs. Unforgettable won six Grammys, including Album of the Year.
‘I am saddened by the news of the passing of my friend Natalie Cole.
COLE: It says, if I had the second chance, oh, I’d do it a whole lot differently. When we started the project it was a way of reconnecting with my dad. It was my way of saying goodbye because when he passed away, I was in school, actually, on the East Coast in boarding school when he passed. And I think it was about the trials and tribulations that she was going through at the time. “I owed that to him”.
Ms. Cole appeared on television, including on holiday specials such as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, Christmas programs and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve celebration, and on shows including “Touched by an Angel”, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”. “I have seen the edge”.
The family eventually included five children.
Cole continued to tour, receiving dialysis three times per week between performances.
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She underwent a kidney transplant in 2009, which inspired her second book. After hooking up with producers, Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy, Cole recorded a number of sides and was signed by Capitol Records. Later in 1977, she became the first female artist to have two platinum albums in one year with Thankful. Finally, in May 2009, she had an operation and had one of her kidneys replaced. “I was a heroin addict, sharing needles with the crowd I was with”, she herself admitted to People magazine in 2008.