Grammy-winner Natalie, Nat Cole’s daughter, dies

Cole conjured her father Nat’s spirit for “Unforgettable… with Love”, a 1991 album of beyond-the-grave collaborations between father and son.

Then came the release of the epic Unforgettable… with Love – an album of the music of her father – which won her the Grammys for Record of the Year and Album of the Year, among others.

Following graduation, Cole began singing rock and R&B covers at clubs with her band, Black Magic.

“Her sumptuous, buttery, vocals are the kind of rare treasure that needs only the twinkling of a piano, the snapping of fingers, and the thump-thump-thump of a stand-up bass”.

“I just received the tragic news that my sweet friend Natalie Cole has passed away”, she wrote on her Instagram page.

Cole was set to make her Broadway debut in 2014 as a guest star in Warren Carlyle’s After Midnight, following in the footsteps of Fantasia Barrino, Vanessa Williams, and Patti LaBelle, from August 5-31.

– The Graytest (@MacyGraysLife) January 1, 2016 Rest In Peace, Natalie Cole! “Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived – with dignity, strength and honour”.

The album became her first platinum one of three, and the song helped Natalie Cole earn the Best New Artist Grammy in 1975.

“I think that I am a walking testimony that you can have scars”, she told CBS’s Sunday Morning in 2006.

She was also nominated for an Emmy award in 1992 for a televised performance of her father’s songs.

She had previously experimented with drugs like LSD and heroin, but it was cocaine that sent her into a spiral as her career and marriage faltered.

Cole, victor of nine Grammy awards, faced numerous health problems in recent years, and in the past few months cancelled a string of concert performances due to illness rooted in past substance abuse.

While making the album, Cole told The Associated Press in 1991, she had to “throw out every R&B lick that I had ever learned and every pop trick I had ever learned”.

In contrast to the rags-to-riches stories of many other artists of her generation, Cole was raised in relative affluence in Los Angeles.

At six, Cole recorded a duet with her father, I’m Good Will, You’re Christmas Spirit.

Cole was married three times, and divorced from her husband in 2004. While attending the University of MA and studying psychology, she sang in nightclubs, and was often billed as “Nat King Cole’s daughter”. But you know the saying: These are the best of times and the worst of times.

Her 2008 album of pop standards, “Still Unforgettable”, included another duet with her father, “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home”. Her 2010 book, “Love Brought Me Back”, chronicled the search for a donor.

Cole said at the time that the interferon treatments made recording much more hard, as some of the side effects _ lack of appetite, diminished thirst _ dehydrated and weakened her.