Daughter of the legendary singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole died at a clinic in Los Angeles, USA, at age 65. The cause of death was a heart attack. In May 2009 he had undergone a kidney transplant after suffering a hepatitis C crisis that affected four years earlier.
With 40 years of musical career, Natalie released 21 albums. In 1991 made a virtual duet with his father’s legendary song “Unforgettable”.
The daughter of Nat King Cole and Maria Hawkins Ellington, Natalie, raised in the neighborhood of Hancock Park, Los Angeles, followed since childhood the footsteps of his father at age six sang at her Christmas album and at 11, he began acting. Natalie, the death of his father, which occurred in 1965 due to lung cancer was a difficult blow to overcome. In desperation, he fell into drug use and heavy drinking.
However, he recovered and in 1991, recorded the hit album “Unforgettable with love”. With more than five million copies, it earned him a Grammy Award. In the song chosen as the album title, by electronic effects, Natalie sang a duet with her dad
Then came “Take a Look” and “Holly & amp; Ivy”.. With both she got the gold. In 1996, he released “Stardust,” which went platinum, and featured another duet with father in a version of “When I Fall in Love”, which won another Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.
In 1976, Natalie was married to songwriter and producer Marvin Yancy. A year later they had a son, Robert Adam “Robbie” Yancy, also a musician. Marvin was its producer and its condition Baptist minister also took her to embrace religion. Natalie’s had two husbands. In 1989, she married producer and former Rufus drummer Andre Fischer whom he divorced in 1995. In 2001, she married Kenneth Dupree Bishop whom she divorced in 2004.
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