Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole was an American singersongwriter, and actress. The daughter of Nat King Cole, she rose to musical success in the mid1970s as an RampB artist with the hits This Will Be, Inseparable, and Our Love. After a period of failing sales and performances due to a heavy drug addiction, Cole reemerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteens Pink Cadillac. In the 1990s, she rerecorded standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... with Love, which sold over seven million copies and also won Cole numerous Grammy Awards. She sold overmillion records worldwide.

Natalie Cole was born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, the daughter of crooner Nat King Cole and former Duke Ellington Orchestra singer Maria Hawkins Ellington, and raised in the affluent Hancock Park district of Los Angeles. Regarding her childhood, Cole referred to her family as the black Kennedys and was exposed to many great singers of jazz, soul and blues. At the age of 6, Natalie sang on her fathers Christmas album and later began performing at age 11.

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