An unforgettable Star – Natalie Cole died – tagesschau.de

“Unforgettable” – this song made famous Natalie Cool. New Year’s Eve, the American soul and jazz singer died in Los Angeles. The multiple Grammy winner and daughter of Nat “King” Cole died at the age of 65 years the consequences of health problems

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On best known Natalie Cole is probably through their album “Unforgettable … With Love,” from 1991. She had sung for new songs that already her father, the jazz singer Nat “King” Cole, had made famous. It used for the theme song of the original recordings as early as 1965 deceased father and sang with him so apparently a duet.

Natalie Cole was 15 when his father died. She was not able to say goodbye to him, she said in 2013 in an interview with CBS -. The singing is a love letter to him was

At the age of six years sang Natalie on a Christmas album with her father. The mother was a jazz singer. But Natalie wanted to study medicine, until a friend asked her one evening, stand in for him at a performance with his band. You did him a favor and he was replaced for a short time from a lead singer. The medical career she hung on the nail. But she still made her degree in child psychology with a minor in German

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The famous Name of the father worked long after. The LA Times writes, once a nightclub Natalie, the daughter of Nat “King” Cole had announced. Perhaps also to set itself apart from the jazz of her parents, Natalie Cole went first towards R & amp;. B

At 25, she landed with her debut single “This will be” equal to the first Top Ten hit. But behind the easy-flaky music was a singer who was already heavily addicted to drugs: cocaine, heroin, LSD. On the day when the plate came out, they were on their way to buy drugs, Natalie Cole told two years ago in the Wendy Williams show. It was not long good. The fame faded, their health was permanently impaired. In 1983, she went into rehab.

Musically it makes only talked about in the 90′s again. The album “Unforgettable,” on which she sings in duet with not only the deceased father, but also interprets his songs new, sold millions of copies and earned her three of her nine Grammys.

It was, after Jazz and not R & B – apparently had Natalie Cole found her style. But the long-term consequences of drug addiction they came again: 2008 the doctors found hepatitis C, one year later, Cole received a donor kidney. Apparently there were complications, the health of the singer was badly bruised. In December, they had to cancel several performances. Natalie Cole died New Year’s Eve at the age of 65 years.