Natalie and Nat King Cole

I have always found this father -daughter team so wonderfully talented. A father so talented and who has become a legend in his own right is hard to even match in terms of talent and yet Natalie Cole is a talent in her own right. The voice , the versatility and a great performer as well- her father would be so proud of her if he were alive today.

Natalie Maria Cole was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of the famous crooner Nat King Cole and and Maria Cole. Being a daughter of a famous singer she was exposed to many great singers of jazz and blues. At the age of six Natalie sang on her father's Christmas album and later began performing at age 11.Cole was 15 years old and attending an east coast boarding school, when her father died of lung cancer in February 1965.

Cole may be best remembered for her 1991 album, Unforgettable .. with Love, featuring her vocal arrangements of her father's greatest hits with piano accompaniment . She sang 22 songs from her father's collection including Mona Lisa, Route 66, and with a little help from technology, performed the title song Unforgettable as a duet with her father using her father's original recording. The album was a hit worldwide; selling over 7 million copies in the United States alone, and won Cole several Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. The album best known included a duet with her father, created by merging a recording of his vocals into the track.

Her autobiography was turned into a made-for-TV movie, The Natalie Cole Story, which aired December 10, 2000 on NBC.Cole has also had struggles with kidney disease. She appeared on larry King Live on March 31, 2009,before receiving a  kidney transplant on May 20, 2009. 

We expects to see Natalie again in the limelight as she tours extensively in the fall of 2009 . She made her triumphant stage comeback on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at the legendary Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Here are some of her unforgettable melodies, Inseparable, Mr. Melody, Our Love, Sophisticated Lady, This Will be.

Unforgettable, that's what you are 
Unforgettable though near or far 
Like a song of love that clings to me 
How the thought of you does things to me 
Never before has someone been more 

Unforgettable in every way 
And forever more, that's how you'll stay 
That's why, darling, it's incredible 
That someone so unforgettable 
Thinks that I am unforgettable too 

Unforgettable in every way 
And forever more, that's how you'll stay 
That's why, darling, it's incredible 
That someone so unforgettable 
Thinks that I am unforgettable too