Natalie Cole Gone But Not Forgotten

The family’s statement said Cole died on Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles from “ongoing health issues”. Cole had her own struggles with substance abuse, all of which came to a head in 2008 when she was diagnosed with Hepatitis C before collapsing from a kidney failure, only to survive after a transplant.

Her album, Unforgettable… With Love (1991), won the Grammy for Album of the Year and has sold more than 7 million copies in the United States.

The recording featured many of Nat King Cole’s most famous songs, including “Mona Lisa,”Too Young,”Route 66” and “Unforgettable”, in which Cole’s voice was spliced with her father’s to make a poignant posthumous duet”.

From online dating to father-daughter wedding dances, her voice was the soundtrack to American romance. News. “Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever”.

She was first nominated for numerous Grammy Awards in 1976 and has been a constant contestant for the honour over the years.

She won an incredible nine Grammys from 21 nominations over her career, including the Best New Artist Grammy. Rest in everlasting love.

For years she was addicted to heroin before she successfully completed rehab in 1983.

She reflect on her health problems in an interview with People magazine around that time. “With Love.” It became a multiplatinum smash and garnered her multiple Grammy Awards, including album of the year. Cole’s autobiography, Angel on My Shoulder was released in 2000.

“I’ve been to hell and back”, she wrote in her book.

In February, she tragically lost her friend, the singer Whitney Houston, to an accidental drug overdose. Despite chemotherapy, both kidneys failed, and in 2009, she went public with a request for a kidney donation. The intravenous use of the drug and sharing needles may have been the cause of her contracting Hep. C.

Natalie Cole has died after fighting illness over the past several weeks.

Natalie Cole’s hits included songs such as Inseparable and This Will Be (An Everlasting Love).

Van Morrison and Natalie Cole, “These Are the Days”.

Mthethwa’s spokesperson Lisa Combrinck says, “The minister is shocked and saddened by her passing”. Survivors include a son from her first marriage, Robert Yancy; and two sisters. Instead of a huge flop, the album of pre-rock standards became a blockbuster and cemented Cole’s legacy. She needed dialysis three times a week until she received a donor kidney on May 18, 2009.

Recently, her tours were seen cancelled in a row since October. But you know the saying: These are the best of times and the worst of times.