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TODAY T Buoyantly jazzy singer #NatalieCole, Grammy-winning pop hitmaker, dies at 65 http://tdy.sg/1ZFkBHP
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The New York Times
Natalie Cole, ‘Unforgettable’ Voice, Dies at 65
Natalie Cole performing in 2007. Credit Radek Pietruszka/European Pressphoto Agency
Natalie Cole, a buoyantly jazzy singer who became a million-selling, Grammy Award-winning pop hitmaker with her 1975 debut album and went on to even greater popularity when she followed the example of her father, Nat King Cole, to interpret prerock pop standards, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 65.
The cause was “ongoing health issues,” her family said. Ms.Cole had undergone a kidney transplant in 2009 and had suffered from other ailments recently, forcing the cancellation of tour dates in November and December.
Ms. Cole had a light, supple, perpetually optimistic voice, full of syncopated turns and airborne swoops, drawing on both the nuances of jazz singing and the dynamics of gospel. It brought her million-selling albums in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s as she moved from the sound of her own generation to that of her parents.
“The biggest similarities between Ms. Cole and her father are in attitude. Instead of working toward catharsis, they aspire to a genteel elegance, balance and good feeling,” Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times in 1993. “But where the ultimate direction of the father’s singing was an easy chair on a moonlit porch, his daughter’s tenser, more brittle singing evokes an urban, indoor setting. To the decorous phrasing of a big band singer she brings a steady current of soulmusic sassiness.”
Ms. Cole was equally at home in the pop soul of her No. 1 1975 hit, “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love),” and in her technology-assisted duet with her father in 1991, based on his 1951 recording of “Unforgettable.”
Both songs brought her Grammy Awards. The “Unforgettable … With Love” album, on which Ms. Cole sang her father’s hits, also swept the top Grammy Awards — including album, record and song of the year — and sold seven million copies in the United States alone.
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JUST IN: Singer Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat King Cole, dead at 65 – media reports
#NatalieCole said to have died from post-kidney transplant congestive heart failure http://str.sg/ZrnP
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