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Natalie Cole, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose top-selling albums preserved the musical legacy of her father, Nat King Cole, and established her as a powerful musical talent in her own right ...
Tracy Cole, a great-nephew of legendary singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole, was stabbed to death in Atlanta on Thursday, according to multiple reports. He was 31.
Cole was paid $5,000 — about $50,000 in today’s dollars — for the performance. Nat King Cole and his wife, singer Maria Hawkins, are shown in 1951.
When Nat King Cole performed “The Party’s Over” on his NBC variety show, he did it with a smile, as he seemed to do everything. But the song bitterly resonated on that particular broadcast ...
By Christmas he was too ill to leave hospital, and Jet magazine reported that only family and close friends were permitted five-minute visits. Nat’s long-term friend, comedian Jack Benny, the man who ...
The family of musical legends Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole were overjoyed when they learned police arrested someone for the stabbing death of their loved one.
Written by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, this New York Theatre Workshop production stars Dulé Hill as the singer-pianist, focusing on the final taping of Cole’s 1950s NBC show.
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 ...
Natalie Cole’s family revealed the Grammy-winning singer’s cause of death on Thursday, January 7, saying she passed away from heart failure induced by lung disease.
Driving The King is a fictionalized account of the adventures of Nat King Cole and his bodyguard driver. Author Ravi Howard says the idea was planted long ago.
Singer Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat "King" Cole who carried on his musical legacy, has died.
It isn't easy being the child of an icon, and early in her singing career, Natalie Cole resisted the legacy of her famous father, crooner Nat King Cole.