Natalie Cole

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Music career

Cole grew up listening to a variety of bands, including Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin. She began playing in small clubs with her band, Black Magic, after graduation in 1972. She was first accepted by clubs because she was Nat King Cole's daughter, but she was dissatisfied when she started performing cover versions of R&B and rock songs.

She recorded some songs in a Chicago studio that was owned by Curtis Mayfield with the help of Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy, a songwriting and production pair. Cole's debut tapes resulted in a contract with Capitol, resulting in the unveiling of Inseparable, which featured songs that reminded listeners of Aretha Franklin. Franklin later claimed that songs such as "This Will Be," "I Can't Say No," and others were given to her while she was recording the album You but she had turned them down. Since being released in 1975, the album became a big success thanks to "This Will Be," which became a top ten hit and earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. "Inseparable" -- the band's second single, became a hit. Both songs debuted on the R&B chart, achieving number one on the R&B charts. Cole was also named Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards for her performances, making her the first African-American artist to do so. Cole's characterization as the "new Aretha Franklin" in the media sparked a rivalry between the two artists. Cole won the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance category at the 1976 Grammy Awards, a contest that Franklin had won eight times before losing to Cole.

Cole responded to critics who predicted a sophomore slump with Natalie, who was born in 1976. Thanks to the funk-inspired cut "Sophisticated Lady" and the jazz-influenced "Mr. Melody," the album, as well as Inseparable, became a gold success.

Cole's third platinum debut, Unpredictable, was mainly due to the number one R&B's hit "I've Got Love on My Mind." "I'm Catching Hell" began as an album track, the album's closer, but it became a hit Cole song at live concert shows. Cole's fourth and second platinum album, Thankful, featured another Cole hit, "Our Love." Cole was the first female artist to have two platinum albums in a year. Cole appeared on her own TV special, "Sinatra and Friends," in order to cash in on her celebrity. Natalie Live! Cole's first live album, 1978, was released.

The singer was named on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in early 1979. I Love You So and the Peabo Bryson duet album, We're the Best of Friends, were released in the same year. Both albums have earned gold in the United States, demonstrating her increasing success.

Cole's career began to take a detour after the debut of her eighth album, 1980's Don't Look Back. Although Cole had a success with the album's soft rock ballad "Someone I Used to Love," the album's core failed to achieve gold. Cole's personal issues, as well as heroin battles, came to public notice in 1981, and her career suffered as a result. Cole began working in 1983, shortly after the debut of her album I'm Ready on Epic, and she stayed there for a period of six months.

Following her debut, she relaunched her with the Atco imprint Modern Records and Dangerous, which culminated in Cole's slow revival in terms of both record sales and chart success. She returned to EMI-Manhattan Records in 1987 and released the album Everlasting, which brought her to the top of the charts thanks to singles including "Jump Start (My Love"), the top ten ballad, "I Live for Your Love"), and Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac." Everlasting's triumph helped the group achieve one million hits and became Cole's first platinum album in ten years. She began to be back in 1989 with the hit "Miss You Like Crazy," which became her biggest hit in the United Kingdom by debuting second on the UK Singles Chart. Although the album was unable to achieve gold status in the United States, it did succeed internationally by becoming her first top ten album in the United Kingdom and then being named Gold.

Cole's latest album, Unfortable on Elektra Records in 1991, featured Cole performing hits from her father's songs during live concerts, nearly 20 years after she initially had refused to cover her father's songs. Cole produced vocal arrangements for the songs, with piano accompaniment by her uncle Ike Cole. Cole's label also released a live duet between Cole and her father on the title track, "Unfortable." The song eventually debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 and number ten on the R&B chart, and it went top, winning gold. Love has since sold more than 7 million copies in the United States alone, as well as several Grammy Awards such as Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance for the top song.

She transferred the rights of her EMI-Manhattan catalog while signing for new Elektra stuff.

Cole followed her success with another album of jazz standards, Take a Look, in 1993, which included her recording of the title track in the same style that her idol Aretha Franklin had used nearly 30 years ago. The album eventually earned gold, but Holly & Ivy, a holiday album, became gold. Stardust, Cole's second standards debut, went platinum and featured another duet with her father on a modern version of "When I Fall in Love," which earned Cole another Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

Cole received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the Berklee College of Music in 1995.

Cole performed with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1999 and released Snowfall on the Sahara in June and her second Christmas album The Magic of Christmas on October. Natalie Cole, a year later, co-produced Livin' for Love, the Natalie Cole story. She also published the compilation Greatest Hits, Vol. 1. Elektra's 1st rep has to complete her contract. All albums she made for Elektra and EMI-Manhattan are no longer owned by Warner Music Group; they were sold to Concord Music Group and are now available digitally via Craft Recordings.

She moved to Verve Records and released two albums. Ask a Woman Who Knows (2006), a girl who dreams of jazz (2002), Leavin (2006) was an album of pop, rock, and R&B songs. Aretha Franklin's version of "daydreaming" was a minor success on the R&B chart. Still Unfortable, a collection of songs made popular by her father and Frank Sinatra, was released in 2008, seventeen years after Unfortable... with Love. She appeared with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra on Pennington Great Performers in April 2012.

Television and film career

Cole aspired to be a comedian. Richard Campbell, Jeffrey Worrell, Eddie Cole, and Dave Joyce appeared in concerts or other music-related events, including the 1988 Nelson Mandela birthday tribute.

Cole hosted Big Break, a talent competition in which singers and musicians vied for a $100,000 cash prize in 1990. On the television special "Mr. President" this year, she and Al Jarreau sang "Mr. President" together.

Johnny Mathis appeared on a Cole's special in 1980, and the pair stayed in touch, and in 1992, he asked her to be a part of his television program A Tribute to Nat Cole for the BBC in England. An album of the same name was released. PBS broadcast a special based on the album in 1992, following the success of the Unforttable's. Unfortable, With Love: Natalie Cole Sings of Nat "King" Cole's Songs earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Program. Cole received a prize for Outstanding Individual Achievement, but Bette Midler took the honors.

She was one of the honor guests of honor at Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in 1993. She appeared in two Oscar-nominated songs, "Run to You" and "I Have Nothing," two of which Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard" were filmed in the film The Bodyguard. Cole made a few dramatic television appearances, including I'll Fly Away, Touched by an Angel, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Grey's Anatomy. In Winter, she appeared in the TV show Lily. De-Lovely, Cole Porter's biopic, appeared. She appeared in Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story in 2001, where she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series, or Dramatic Special. Cole performed "I Say a Little Prayer" at a benefit dinner on February 5, 2007, as part of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. At Super Bowl XVIII, she performed the national anthem with the Atlanta University Center Chorus. On Sirius Radio, she appeared on Tina Sinatra's Father's Day Special in 2013. Deana Martin, Monica Mancini, and Daisy Torme reminisced about their famous fathers.

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