When I was 6 years old, Natalie Cole and promised to be a star, a photograph taken in 1956 shows singing with his father, the great Nat ‘King’ Cole, in one of his essays. She shone her huge eyes, framed by hair tails tender; him, hinted his characteristic smile, that they loved the world. It would be a great duo
Just a few years later, Nat ‘King’ Cole Natalie faded -and had not begun his musical-career. lung cancer began to consume it in dark December 1964 and took him in February 1965, 50 years ago. Many ideas were in the pipeline
In 1991, the technology worked the miracle. Natalie Cole sang with her father-at Unforgettable classic projecting a recording artist and has been extinct since one of the most unforgettable moments of music, also because proclaimed that history need not necessarily be linear. In that video, at the end, the public could see how Natalie and Nat by sending a kiss goodbye in the distance. Suddenly, Nat was again alive.
On December 31, the singer Natalie Cole died at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, of heart failure, and after several years of struggle against hepatitis C. He was 65, and 40 professional career in music, recorded in 23 studio albums that achieved several gold and platinum.
Despite being a public holiday, the news of the death of Natalie Cole shocked the music industry as much as the black community in America. Voices like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, comedian Arsenio Hall, or artists Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick regretted his departure.
“I have to hold back tears, I know how much I struggled, was one of the greatest singers of our time, “Aretha Franklin, while Warwick said that” it was more than a friend, my heart is broken. “
Hall, meanwhile , he said that one of his first comedy shows was opening concert Cole, so especially remembers. Meanwhile, Reverend Jackson tweeted. “Dear Sister, of substance and sound, may his soul rest in peace, is inseparable”
Meanwhile, Tony Bennett said ” was an honor to have recorded and performed with her on many occasions, it was an exceptional singer. “
An inescapable future
The occurrence of record that virtual Unforgettable, bringing the opposite of death, Joe Guercio was the musical director of Elvis Presley. And the result was three Grammy Awards: Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
It would have been difficult to escape Natalie Cole music. : not only was the daughter of Nat ‘King’ Cole, which already represented have been born surrounded by the glamor around the crooner , and incidentally of his friends Frank Sinatra, the rat pack , Tony Bennett, but his mother was a jazz singer Maria Hawkins, who worked with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, and also was the niece of the pianist and singer Freddie Cole.
That also meant pressure, and then study medicine -in college became involved in the movement of the Black Panthers, was launched to find his own style in music, after years of discussion with her mother, who singer did not want to go
Debuted in 1975, through an album with a very different sound than many would be waiting. Natalie went with the flow of soul and funk, under the title of Inseparable, who managed to be certified gold in the hands of Capitol Records.
In this album he recorded a song that reinterpret and transform in the following decades and became so important in his career as Unforgettable: it is This Will Be
Then came a dip in the disco.. Among later hits, entering the 80, I would be the ballad Someone That I Used To Love. But it would be several quiet years, but no major singles discs until 1987, he recorded Everlasting, and in 1989 with the highly symbolic Good to be Back.
Other songs they made fundamental in the career of Natalie Cole were: Sophisticated Lady (1976), I’ve Got Love on My Mind (1977), Our Love (1978), I Live For Your Love (1987), Pink Cadillac (1988) Miss You Like Crazy (1989) and 5 Minutes Away (2006).
However, the turning point came with Unforgettable … With Love, 1991, which also it included other well-known songs from the famous singer. Was its essential immersion in jazz and traditional pop which completely redefined his career.
said that the most exciting for her was to record with an orchestra, and one of its projects more ambitious arrived in the new century, with The Magic of Christmas, he recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Natalie shared the stage with many of the most important voices of four decades, as Andrea Bocelli (with whom he recorded the song The Christmas Song, which this year reaches thousands of homes), or the very Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, to name just a few.
But his main duo was with his father. And stamping his traveling accompanied in his concerts from the tour Unforgettable 1992, so did another curious audiovisual material: a newspaper article in 1952 in which her mother had her little baby Natalie Marie cameras “better known as’ sweetie ‘(sweet) … Say hello “, to which the already promising-the only child among five brothers who triumphed in the cantons responded with strong sustained note:”!. Hi “
An unforgettable overcome
For many, that bond with her father meant to have lived in the shadow of it. The Spanish journalist Diego Manrique, of the country, called yesterday “a drag”.
biggest drag was surely their dependence on heroin, crack and alcohol with it bottomed. There were few times when he was in rehab.
Like many figures of music in the 70s and 80s, Natalie Cole lived in a train of ups and downs, great moments overshadowed by drug addiction that led to the brink of death, according to his biography Angel on My Shoulder (an angel on my back, clearly speaking from his father). Overcoming also became a spokeswoman against this scourge. NBC brought the book to one of his biographical documentaries and even direction, with part of the singer-performance under the title Living For Love in 2000, which had a major impact television.
The artist then revealed that thanks to the efforts of his mother, did not circulate in media news that would have ended his career and battered pass the legacy of his father:” On my birthday, in 1975, I was arrested by possession of heroin in Canada, but the news only emerged on a small newspaper in Toronto. “
In the documentary also suggested that after it became clear that the drug helped him recording, when he tried to leave and recording sessions were not advancing as before, executives at his record company would have told the producer to avoid costs, gave him “drugs I needed.”
Your emotional life was also a train. He was married and divorced three times
Hepatitis C who contracted apparently by contact with infected blood ., he led to a kidney transplant in 2009. This marked an even more difficult time for the singer in his later years
His last production was another step that followed his father sing in Spanish. In 2013 he released the album in Spanish, which included songs like Contigo learned, I’ll turn off the light (of Armando Manzanero), Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velasquez), Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Osvaldo Farres) Only once (Agustin Lara) , I love him (an adaptation of And I Lover Her, John Lennon), The Day You Love Me (Carlos Gardel) and even Bachata rosa bachata, Juan Luis Guerra, a duet with Dominican.
He also had a career in acting as a temporary character in series. as Grey’s Anatomy and Law & amp; Order, and in films such as De-Lovely and Cats Do not Dance.
“Natalie gave a fierce and very brave battle, he died as he lived, with dignity, strength and honor ( …) will remain unforgettable, “he said yesterday Robert Yancy, the eldest son of the singer, who, as a child, almost drowns in the pool at his house while Natalie was, as she told, consuming heroin.
“I think about my father every time I sing,” said Natalie Cole in one of his last interviews.
CARLOS SOLANO
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