Singer Natalie Cole Is Dead At 82

“This Will Be (Everlasting Love)” singer Natalie Cole, 65, died of congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital, said a statement issued by her representative.

Cole’s career, however, reached superstar status when she recorded the 1991 album, “Unforgettable…With Love”, which paid tribute to her father, who died in 1965. It featured reworked versions of some of her father’s best-known songs. She will be truly missed but her light will shine forever!’ – Patti LaBelle.

Legendary singer Natalie Cole, who won nine Grammy awards and recorded hits like “This Will Be” and “Inseparable”, has died, the Associated Press confirmed.

Cole continued to tour, receiving dialysis three times per week between performances.

In 2012, Cole lost her mother, Maria, after her brief battle with cancer.

Sharing a picture of the pair, Tony wrote: “I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Natalie Cole, as I have cherished the long friendship with her, her father Nat and the family over the years”.

“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”.

The news, she explained, triggered a bout of soul searching. For more than 20 years, she refused to cover her fathers songs, but in the end, it was her celebration of his music together with her angelic voice that will live on in our hearts forever. “Yet her music also expressed a desire to transcend the mere workings of history and rather to seek to commune with eternity”, he said. A month later, she had a donor-a fan. Cole is survived by her son Robert Adam Yancy, who is also a singer. In addition to Sinatra, Cole teamed with another curmudgeonly song stylist, Van Morrison, who invited her to sing “These Are the Days” on his own “Duets: Re-working the Catalog”.

I am thankful to have Laughed, Talked, and Sang with her on several occasions. “Our heartfelt condolences go to the family of Natalie Cole”, Mthethwa said.

In 2010, Natalie Cole came out with a second book, a memoir called Love Brought Me Back. Franklin, perhaps intimidated by the upstart competition, at one point famously gave Cole the brush-off.

She was married three times and divorced her most recent husband, Kenneth Dupree in 2004. The Grammys rewarded the risk with six of its top awards, including Album of the Year.

She battled drug addiction in the early 1980s then made a successful comeback with the hits Miss You like insane, I Live For Your Love, and Pink Cadillac.

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. In 2009, she had a kidney transplant due to hepatitis C she contracted while using drugs.