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Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), [1] known professionally as Nat King Cole, alternatively billed as Nat "King" Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs ...
Cole grew up with an older adopted sister, Carole "Cookie" Cole (1944–2009), her mother Maria's younger sister's daughter, adopted brother Nat "Kelly" Cole (1959–1995), and younger twin sisters Timolin and Casey (born 1961). [9] Through her mother, Cole was a grandniece of educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown. [10]
They had five children: Natalie (1950–2015), who had a successful career as a singer; an adopted daughter, Carole (1944–2009, the daughter of Maria's sister), who died of lung cancer at the age of 64; an adopted son, Nat Kelly Cole (1959–1995), who died at the age of 36; and twin daughters, Casey and Timolin (born September 26, 1961 ...
Iconic will build on a foundation that the twins, their late siblings Natalie Cole, Nat Kelly Cole and Carole Cole and others have maintained since the patriarch’s death. Cole had by then sold ...
1965 -- Nat King Cole Trio: The Vintage Years; 1965 -- Nature Boy; 1966 -- Longines Symphonette Society Presents the Unforgettable Nat King Cole (box set) 1966 -- The Unforgettable Nat King Cole Sings the Great Songs; 1966 -- Sincerely; 1967 -- Stay as Sweet as You Are; 1967 -- The Beautiful Ballads; 1967 -- Thank You, Pretty Baby
"Nature Boy" is a song first recorded by American jazz singer Nat King Cole. It was released on March 29, 1948, as a single by Capitol Records, and later appeared on the 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story. It was written by eden ahbez as a tribute to Bill Pester, who practiced the Naturmensch and Lebensreform philosophies adopted by Ahbez.
Colman Domingo can’t wait to embody Nat King Cole in the upcoming biopic about the legendary jazz singer’s life. “I love the idea of sort of deconstructing an American icon,” Domingo, 54 ...
For international versions of his L-O-V-E album, Nat King Cole also recorded versions of "L-O-V-E" and other songs, in Japanese (mixed with English words), [4] Italian, [5] German, [6] Spanish [7] and French. [8] In this last language, the song was renamed "Je Ne Repartirai Pas" and translated by Jean Delleme.