Her recovery began later in the decade with the album “Everlasting” and reached multiplatinum heights with her 1991 album, “Unforgettable…”
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Cole maintained her recording and performing career, most recently recording an album in Spanish, “Natalie Cole in Español”.
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Cole had a light, supple, perpetually optimistic voice, full of syncopated turns and airborne swoops, drawing on both the nuances of jazz singing and the dynamics of gospel.
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“I don’t remember what I sounded like, I was too much in awe of her”, she said in her lengthy Instagram tribute.
Cole came to perform in 2007 and in 2009, as part of a celebrity concert series coordinated by the church.
CORNISH: Jason King, “Unforgettable” obviously was such a big song, and people so tie her to her father.
In 2008, Cole opened up to World Health Organization about her journey. She spent six months in rehab in 1983. Her quick success and the similarities to Franklin, another mezzo-soprano, did not please the “Queen of Soul”, who at the time called Cole “just a novice”. Natalie was such a great pop star in her own right and gave such infectious performances on the stage. In it, she detailed how the love of someone who had remained anonymous had given her a kidney, a gift of love that had given her life back when she was on the brink of death.
It would be misguided to reduce Natalie Cole’s story to just one of triumph over heroin, however. In “Angel on My Shoulder”, her 2000 memoir, Cole said she turned to drugs because of unresolved issues in her life, including being molested as a child and her father’s death when she was 15. A younger adopted brother, Nat “Kelly” Cole, who passed in 1995, as well as younger twin sisters, Timolin and Casey, who were born in 1961. “I was starting to get it”, she said.
From her dad, she inherited warmth and elegance, the kind of virtuosity and class that can not be learned. Natalie also revealed that she had Hepatitis C – a liver virus that she presumably contracted as a result of her past drug use.
Cole’s 1975 debut album, Inseparable, established her capacity for joy with two chart-topping R&B hits: the moonstruck title track and the buoyant (This Will Be) An Everlasting Love, which was also a Top Ten pop single.
Singer Natalie Cole holds the Grammy award for the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for “Still Unforgettable” during the 51st annual Grammy in Los Angeles on Feb 8, 2009.
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Cole later pursued a career in acting, appearing in several prime-time USA series. But you know the saying: These are the best of times and the worst of times.
