January 6, 2016
Page 11
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
The Law Offices of
Patrick John Sweeney, P.C.
Patrick John Sweeney
Attorney at Law
Natalie Cole holds the best instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist award she received at
the 2009 Grammy awards. The daughter of jazz legend Nat “King” Cole who carried on his musical
legacy, died Dec. 31. She was 65. (AP photo)
Remembering Natalie Cole
Daughter of jazz
legend carried
on his legacy
(AP) — Natalie Cole is being
remembered for her music and
carrying on the legacy of her fa-
ther, the jazz legend Nat “King”
Cole, by carving out her own
success with R&B hits like “Our
Love” and “This Will Be” before
triumphantly intertwining their
legacies to make his “Unforget-
table” their signature hit through
technological wizardry.
While Cole was a Grammy
winner in her own right, she had
her greatest success in 1991 when
she re-recorded her father’s clas-
sic hits — with him on the track
— for the album “Unforgettable
... With Love.” It became a multi-
platinum smash and garnered her
multiple Grammy Awards, includ-
ing album of the year.
Cole died Dec. 31 in Los An-
geles due to complications from
ongoing health issues, her family
said in a statement.
“Natalie fought a fierce, coura-
geous battle, dying how she lived
... with dignity, strength and hon-
or. 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.
“I had to hold back the tears. I
know how hard she fought,” said
Aretha Franklin in a statement.
“She fought for so long. She was
one of the greatest singers of our
time.”
Other celebrities honored Cole
on social media. In a tweet, ac-
tress Marlee Matlin called Cole
a lovely songbird and a great ac-
tress, writing “she is now singing
in heaven.” Patti LaBelle tweeted,
“She will be truly missed but her
light will shine forever!”
Natalie Cole had battled drug
problems and hepatitis that forced
her to undergo a kidney transplant in
May 2009. Cole’s older sister, Carol
“Cookie” Cole, died the day she re-
ceived the transplant. Their brother,
Nat Kelly Cole, died in 1995.
Natalie Cole was inspired by
her dad at an early age and audi-
tioned to sing with him when she
was just 11 years old. She was 15
when he died of lung cancer, in
1965.
She began as an R&B sing-
er but later gravitated toward the
smooth pop and jazz standards
that her father loved.
Cole’s greatest success came
with her 1991 album, “Unforget-
table ... With Love,” which paid
tribute to her father with reworked
versions of some of his best-
known songs, including “That
Sunday That Summer,” ‘’Too
Young” and “Mona Lisa.”
Her voice was spliced with her
dad’s in the title cut, offering a
delicate duet a quarter-century af-
ter his death.
The album sold some 14 mil-
lion copies and won six Gram-
mys, including album of the year
as well record and song of the year
for the title track duet.
While making the album, Cole
told The Associated Press in 1991,
she had to “throw out every R&B
lick that I had ever learned and ev-
ery pop trick I had ever learned.
With him, the music was in the
background and the voice was in
the front.”
I didn’t shed really any real
tears until the album was over,”
Cole said. “Then I cried a whole
lot. When we started the project
it was a way of reconnecting with
my dad. Then when we did the last
song, I had to say goodbye again.”
She was also nominated for an
Emmy award in 1992 for a tele-
vised performance of her father’s
songs.
“That was really my thank
you,” she told People magazine in
2006. “I owed that to him.”
Another father-daughter duet,
“When I Fall in Love,” won a
1996 Grammy for best pop col-
laboration with vocals, and a fol-
low-up album, “Still Unforgetta-
ble,” won for best traditional pop
vocal album of 2008.
Cole made her recording de-
but in 1975 with “Inseparable.”
The music industry welcomed her
with two Grammy awards in 1976
— one for best new artist and one
for best female R&B vocal perfor-
mance for her buoyant hit “This
Will Be (An Everlasting Love).”
She also worked as an ac-
tress, with appearances on TV’s
“Touched by an Angel” and
“Grey’s Anatomy.”
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