REMEMBERING NATALIE COLE

REMEMBERING NATALIE COLE

Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Cole was the daughter of American singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole. She rose to success in the mid-1970s as an R&B singer with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable" (1975), and "Our Love" (1977). She returned as a pop singer on the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she sang traditional pop by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... with Love, which sold over seven million copies and won her seven Grammy Awards. She sold over 30 million records worldwide.

AWARDS

Grammy Awards➡

▪2009 Grammy Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (Shared with: Gail Deadrick(producer) For the album "Still. Unforgettable"

▪1997 Winner

Grammy Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

for "When I Fall In Love" (& Nat "King" Cole)

▪1994 Winner

Grammy Best Jazz Vocal Performance

for "Take A Look"

▪1992 Winner

Grammy Best Traditional Pop Performance

for "Unforgettable" (with Nat "King" Cole)

Album of the Year

Shared with: Andre Fischer (producer), David Foster (producer) and

Tommy LiPuma (producer) for "Unforgettable With Love"

Record of the Year

Shared with: David Foster (producer)

for "Unforgettable" (with Nat "King" Cole)

▪1977 Winner

Grammy Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female

For "Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady)"

▪1976 Winner

Grammy Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female

For "This Will Be" and Best New Artist of the Year

Image Awards (NAACP)➡

▪2001 Winner

Image Award Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story (2000)

▪1992 Winner

Image Award Outstanding Music Video

Natalie Cole: Unforgettable (1991)

Jackson Hole Film Festival➡

▪2004 Winner

Cowboy Award Best Score The Easter Egg Adventure (2004) Shared with:

John Califra

Soul Train Awards➡

▪1992 Winner

Soul Train Award Best R&B/Soul Album - Female

For the album: "Unforgettable... with Love"

▪1988 Winner

Soul Train Award Best Single - Female

For the song: "I Live for Your Love"

Walk of Fame➡

▪1979 Winner

Star on the Walk of Fame Recording

Awarded on February 5, 1979 at 1750 Vine Street.