Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole
Natalie Maria Colewas an American singer-songwriter, and actress. The daughter of Nat King Cole, she rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable", and "Our Love". After a period of failing sales and performances due to a heavy drug addiction, Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she re-recorded standards by her father, resulting in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth6 February 1950
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.
I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.
I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.
I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.