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Cole, Natalie, 1950-2015

LC control no.n 91116075
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LC classificationML420.C636 Biography
Personal name headingCole, Natalie, 1950-2015
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1950-02-06
Death date2015-12-31
Place of birthLos Angeles (Calif.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activityPopular music
AffiliationUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst Capitol Records, Inc.
Profession or occupationSingers Entertainers Blues musicians
Found inPretty woman [SR] p1990: label (Natalie Cole)
LC data base, 10-5-92 (hdg.: Cole, Natalie, 1950- )
Guinness enc. of pop. mus., 2nd ed. (Cole, Natalie; b. Feb. 6, 1950, Los Angeles, Calif.; daughter of Nat "King" Cole)
African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cole, Natalie; born Stephanie Maria Cole; popular singer, rhythm and blues musician / singer; born 06 February 1950 in Los Angeles, California, United States; her musical tastes extended from Billie Holiday to the Beatles; she attended the best private schools and graduated (1968) from the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts; while studying child psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst she continued to sing and perform in a local band; after earning a BA degree, she debuted as a solo artist in 1973, and in 1975 she received a recording contract from Capitol Records, her father's label; her first album, Inseparable, was released in 1975 and earned her two Grammy Awards and a gold record; received numerous awards - the Soul Train Best Single (Female) Award, 1987; three NAACP Image Awards, 1992; two American Music Awards, 1992; and an honorary degree from the Berklee College of Music, 1995; in 2000 she wrote her autobiography entitled Angel on my shoulder and also released her Greatest Hits, Volume I album)
New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 4, 2016 (in obituary published Jan. 1: Natalie Cole; b. Feb. 6, 1950; d. Thursday [Dec. 31, 2015], Los Angeles, aged 65; 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, in interpreting pre-rock pop standards)
Associated languageeng