Also, when she finally embraced her father’s legacy and recorded Unforgettable…With Love, Cole’s magnum opus. Natalie discussed her failed marriages and fractured mother-daughter relationship. She described her workman-like rise to stardom in the late 1970s, leading to her downfall with drugs.
She graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in child psychology and had plans to pursue it as a career.
Natalie shared her reluctance on becoming a singer, especially in the shadow of her father. Cole shares her life story growing up as the daughter of the great Nat King Cole. However, she deserves to be mentioned in the same conversation with those names. I do not read many celebrity autobiographies, but I have started research on my next novel and I read about one of my favorite singers.įor American R&B female singers, Natalie Cole does not get mentioned in the same vein as Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, or Mariah Carey. Those words are from the last paragraph of the late Natalie Cole’s autobiography, Angel On My Shoulder published November 2000, fifteen years before her death in December 2015. “As you walk your own journey, keep your eyes open, listen well, and if you look real hard, you just might find an angel on your shoulder.”
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