Unforgettable: Natalie Cole's Life in Pictures
Natalie Cole during Nick at Nite Celebrates the Holiday Season with "The Nick at Nite Holiday Special" Airing on Friday, Nov. 28 at CBS Studios in Hollywood, California, United States.
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Unforgettable: Natalie Cole's Life in Pictures
Photos: Natalie Cole through the years
Ahead of the Billboard Latin Music Awards on April 24 where Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Robin Thicke and Christina Aguilera will compete for Crossover Artist of the Year, we're taking a look at the 10 top artists who have crossed over to the Billboard Latin charts.
April 15, 1989: The Fine Young Cannibals had the first of two chart-topping hits with "She Drives Me Crazy." Two music videos were produced for "She Drives Me Crazy.", one by Philippe Decouflé and another by Pedro Romhanyi. Fine Young Cannibals (sign up to follow by email) As with Decouflé's only other music video, for New Order's "True Faith", his version includes extensive choreography and performers in unusual costumes. One looks like a pillow and another resembles the title character from the movie Beetlejuice. The video received several nominations at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, including "Best Video". Read more: Wikipedia April 15, 1978: Natalie Cole peaked at number 10 on the hit chart with "Our Love." By the late 1970s, Natalie Cole was well and truly more than just, in the public eye, the daughter of Nat King Cole. Natalie Cole The Los Angeles chanteuse with the famous father had already released four solo studio albums in the wake of her debut crossover smash single “This Will Be,” and all of them went either gold or platinum in the US, as well as building her international audience. The fourth, Thankful, appeared in November 1977 and immediately offered up her next R&B chart entry, the smooth and sultry ballad “Our Love.” Read more: U Discover Music April 15, 1967: "Jimmy Mack" by Martha & the Vandellas peaked at number 10 on the Hot 100 chart. The Marvelettes may have been the first successful girl group to emerge out of Motown, and the Supremes may have been the most popular, but Martha & the Vandellas were the most potent, combining equal parts gospel righteousness and playful sass. Martha & the Vandellas Martha Reeves’ no-nonsense alto, which made even the most lighthearted dance song sound like a manifesto, was squarely framed by Rosalind Ashford’s soprano and Annette Beard’s (later Betty Kelly’s) contralto. Their reign may not have lasted long, but in the year or two between the decline of the Marvelettes and the ascent of the Supremes, the Vandellas were the queens of Motown. Read more: Rebeat April 15, 1967: "Somethin' Stupid" made Nancy and Frank Sinatra the only father and daughter team with a US chart-topping single. "Unforgettable" by Natalie Cole and Nat "King" Cole reached number 14 in 1991. April 15, 1989: "You Got It" by Roy Orbison reached the Top 10 four months after his heart attack death. "You Got It" is a song from Roy Orbison's twenty-second studio album, Mystery Girl. The song was released posthumously in January 1989 with "The Only One" as the B-side and with "Crying" - the version with k.d. lang - shortly thereafter. The A-side reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, returning Orbison to the top 10 for the first time in 25 years. Read more: Wikipedia "She Drives Me Crazy" Fine Young Cannibals
Chart-topping R&B singer Natalie Cole, who followed her legendary father into the music business with hits like “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” and “Unforgettable,”…
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The award-winning singer and daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole died at age 65 on Thursday night. Here are some highlights from her life and career
Natalie Cole -- 5 things to know about the castaway competing on this fall's Survivor: David vs. Goliath edition of Survivor.
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American singer, and songwriter, Natalie Cole, 27th October 1975.
Singer Natalie Cole (above and below) Ever since my original 'Glamorous Gaps' post (which you can see here) I'm seeing the gap-toothed ladies everywhere. Obviously, they were always around, but I suppose I just never really paid that much attention. (typical) Anyway, here's some more of that diastemic goodness. Model Ruth Crilly (above and below) Model Lindsey Wixson (above and below) Actress Laura San Giacomo (above and below)
Chart-topping R&B singer Natalie Cole, who followed her legendary father into the music business with hits like “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)” and “Unforgettable,”…
Natalie Cole in the 2009 Grammy Awards Press Room.
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The "Unforgettable" songstress once told an interviewer, "You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life."
Hepatitis C is a chronic, often deadly, viral infection. Natalie Cole acquired this disease through intravenous drug use and paid the ultimate price.
August 30, 1980: "Whip It" by Devo debuts on the US Billboard Hot 100 single's chart. Following their 1978 breakthrough with the Brian Eno-produced Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, Devo struggled to impress their label, Warner Brothers, with 1989's Duty Now for the Future. (sign up to follow by email) For their third album, the band faced a do-or-die situation. Leave it to the Midwestern spud-boys to defy all odds: the band whipped back to the studio and returned with "Whip It," a single so irresistibly odd that it resurged to the charts after its release in August 1980. Read more: Totally 80s August 30, 1969: Jackie DeShannon reached Number 4 with "Put a Little Love in Your Heart." Jackie DeShannon composed "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" with her brother Randy Myers and Jimmy Holiday. Jackie DeShannon In the U.S., it was DeShannon's highest-charting hit, reaching number 4 on the Hot 100 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary charts. The song rivaled the success of her signature song, "What the World Needs Now Is Love." Read more: Wikipedia August 30, 1975: Natalie Cole first debuts on Billboard's chart with "This Will Be." Natalie Cole's first single, this funky pop song made a statement that she was not going to be a ballad singer like her famous father, Nat King Cole, who died when she was 15. Natalie Cole Cole was extremely successful in the late '70s, but also developed a drug addiction that derailed her career and almost killed her. She got sober in the mid-'80s and launched a comeback. Read more: Songfacts August 30, 1986: "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood hits Number 1 on the US single's chart. When Steve Winwood scored his first chart-topper, he was 38 years old, and he was the very image of yuppified boomer-pop stardom. By the time “Higher Love” hit, Winwood would’ve been a familiar face. “Higher Love” landed at #1 more than 20 years after Winwood had first appeared on the Hot 100. Read more: Stereogum August 30, 2003: "Bigger Than My Body by John Mayer entered, at Number 66, the Billboard Hot 100 single's chart. "Bigger Than My Body" was the first single released by American singer John Mayer from his second album, Heavier Things. John Mayer Mayer composed the song after going to a Coldplay concert. He wrote it to explain his desire to write both moving and great music, like what he found in artists like Coldplay, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Pearl Jam. At the same time, he commented on the frustration of not being able to get the music outside of his own body. Read more: Wikipedia Whip It Devo
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