R&B legends attend Natalie Cole’s funeral

It was held at West Angeles Church of God in Christ.

The legendary singer’s funeral took place at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ and was attended by music icons like David Foster, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Lionel Richie and Chaka Khan.

Cole was later interred privately at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, near her father, her mother Maria, and adopted siblings Carole and Nat Kelly Cole.

Natalie Cole was laid to rest in Los Angeles on Monday after dying of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension on New Year’s Eve at the age of 65.

“As much as I stood in awe of her artistry which ran so deep, when I think of her today I realize that it’s her friendship that I will miss the most”, music producer David Foster said. At the height of her troubles, her mother filed a petition for conservatorship to handle Cole’s affairs when she no longer could. “We mourn the fact that she’s gone”.

A rehab stint in 1983 turned her life around, she said.

The Grammy-winning singer was the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, and is survived by Yancy, Timolin and Casey. “I was starting to get it”, she said.

It was in 1991 that Cole would go on to achieve her greatest success with an album that was as much a nod to the past as it was an acknowledgment of the future of music and its capacity. “For Natalie, in the early years it did not serve her well, but in the last 25 years fame became very matter of fact”.

In 2008, Cole announced that she had been diagnosed with hepatitis C, a liver disease spread through blood, which she blamed on her past intravenous drug use.

“I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London”.

She received a directed donation of a kidney from a deceased donor in May 2009. Those issues contributed to her health woes in recent years even as she maintained a busy performing schedule.