Cole was exposed to the greats of jazz, soul and blues at an early age and began performing at the age of 11. Her debut album in 1975, Inseparable, won her immediate praise, with the smash single This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) (#1 R&B, #6 Pop) winning her a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female, a category that had been monopolized by Aretha Franklin, since its inception in 1967. She also was named the Grammys' Best New Artist of 1975. She attended the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, MA.
More hits followed through 1980, including her biggest Pop hit, 1977's I've Got Love On My Mind, as well as Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady) (1976), Our Love (1978), and Someone That I Used To Love (1980). "I've Got Love On My Mind" and "Our Love" both earned certifications as Gold singles. But then her career hit a snag in the early 1980s due to a severe drug problem. By 1985, Natalie was clean, sober, and in fine voice, and ready to begin her comeback in earnest with the album Dangerous, released on the Modern label.
In 1987, she released Everlasting (on EMI Manhattan) which sold over 2 million copies in the U.S., and won Cole a Soul Train Award for Female Single of the Year for the #1 R&B ballad I Live for Your Love. This album was the one that put Natalie Cole firmly back in the spotlight, yielding three major hit singles: Jump Start, "I Live For Your Love" (#2 AC and #13 Pop as well as #1 R&B), and a successful remake of Bruce Springsteen's Pink Cadillac (#5 Pop, #16 AC, and #1 Dance). The album also included a taste of things to come in her career with a remake of one of her father's signature hits, "When I Fall In Love," which did moderately well on the AC chart. In 1989, the aptly-titled Good To Be Back gave her another across-the-board smash with "Miss You Like Crazy" (#1 both R&B and AC, and #7 Pop).
However, it was her 1991 album, Unforgettable... with Love, featuring her own arrangements of her father's greatest hits, that gave her the most success. Ironically, when Natalie began her career, she was determined not to capitalize on her father's name and wanted to forge her own identity by going after the soul market in earnest. For many years, she also found the prospect of recording her late father's songs too painful on a personal level. But Unforgettable... With Love certainly paid off. The set sold over 5 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 featured a duet, the title track, with her father, created by splicing a recording of his vocals into the track. As a single, it reached #14 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart, and went gold. The one sour spot in the album's success was that it strained Natalie's already-tumultuous relationship with her mother, Maria, who said in interviews at the time that she couldn't listen to the album or attend any of her daughter's concerts because she felt that the music really belonged to her late husband.
Natalie has released several more albums of pop standards in the years since; as a result of appealing to the "adult standards" audience, she has made only occasional forays onto the pop singles charts in that time (for example, "A Smile Like Yours," #8 AC and #84 Pop in 1997), although her albums still sell well. Her 1999 album Snowfall On The Sahara marked a return to the easy adult-contemporary soul that categorized her late-1980s hits, but for 2002's critically-praised Ask A Woman Who Knows, she turned more to the jazz side of the spectrum, covering songs made famous by Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Sarah Vaughan.
Battle With Drugs
In 2000, Cole released an autobiography, Angel on my Shoulder, which described her battle with drugs during much of her life. In the book, Cole admitted to using LSD, heroin and crack cocaine. Cole said she began experimenting with drugs while attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was arrested in Toronto, Canada for possession of heroin in 1975. Cole continued to spiral out of control - including an incident in which her young son Robert nearly drowned in the family swimming pool while she and her first husband, the late Reverend Marvin Yancy were on a drug binge - until she entered rehab in 1983.
In concert with the release of the book, her autobiography was turned into a made-for-TV movie, The Natalie Cole Story, which aired December 10, 2000 on NBC.
Natalie has been married three times and has a son Robert Yancy (by Marvin Yancy), born in 1977. She later married former Rufus drummer Andre Fischer, who co-produced the Grammy Award-winning Unforgettable... With Love, Natalie's love offering featuring songs made famous by her father, including a faux-duet between her and her father.
The marriage to Fischer ended in divorce a few years later, amidst rumors of domestic verbal and physical abuse.
It has also been reported that Natalie has recovered from a life-threatening hepatitis illness (most likely the cause of her years of drug abuse) by having a liver transplant.
Miss Cole went on to release more albums after Unforgettable...With Love, with most of them featuring jazz-oriented standard songs or pop-song remakes. None of the albums were nearly as successful as Unforgettable...With Love.
As of 2013, Natalie Cole spent most of her professional time covering the concert circuit entertaining audiences around the world with her hits.
On December 31, 2015, Natalie Cole died from congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was aged 65.
Inseparable
Natalie Cole Lyrics
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Inseparable, just you and me
It's so wonderful to know you'll always be around me
Incredible, what you are to me
Incredible, you bring out the woman in me
With your style of love
Inseparable, yes we are
Well like a flower to a tree
Like words to a melody of love
There's no way we could break up
No words that can make us
Blow our thing. we're just
Inseparable, that's how it is
Inseparable, for the rest of our years
It's so wonderful to know you'll always be around.
The lyrics of Natalie Cole's song "Inseparable" speak about a love so intense that no external force can damage its strength. The first stanza introduces the idea of inseparability, implying a bond between two people so strong that it cannot be broken. The second stanza is a description of the person who creates and shares the love, calling him or her 'incredible' and admiring the way this individual causes personal growth and empowerment. The chorus repeats the word 'inseparable' twice - serving as an affirmation of the bond between the two individuals.
The last stanza compares the inseparable relationship to that of a flower and a tree, or words to a melody of love. An unbreakable relationship that no entity can destroy. The lines "No words that can make us Blow our thing" suggest empowerment and confidence in the nature of their relationship. The concluding line of the chorus expresses gratitude and a sense of security, as it assures that the other person will always be present in the singer's life.
Overall, the lyrics of "Inseparable" present a love that is unbreakable, empowering, and reassuring all at once. It speaks about the joy and safety that comes with knowing someone is always going to be there for you.
Line by Line Meaning
Inseparable, that's how we'll always be
We are so close that it is impossible to separate us no matter what happens.
Inseparable, just you and me
We are always together and nothing can keep us apart.
It's so wonderful to know you'll always be around me
I feel happy knowing that you will always be by my side, supporting me.
Incredible, what you are to me
You are an amazing and incredible person to me, and I appreciate you so much.
Incredible, you bring out the woman in me
You make me feel like a strong and confident woman when I am with you.
With your style of love
Your way of loving me is unique and special.
Inseparable, yes we are
We are definitely inseparable and nothing can change that.
Well like a flower to a tree
We are like two pieces of nature that complement each other perfectly.
Like words to a melody of love
Our love is like a beautiful song with words that blend together perfectly.
There's no way we could break up
Our love is so powerful that we could never break up or separate.
No words that can make us
There are no words or actions that could come between us or make us drift apart.
Blow our thing, we're just
Nothing can upset or destroy what we have together.
Inseparable, that's how it is
Our bond is so strong that we will always be inseparable.
Inseparable, for the rest of our years
We will stay together and be inseparable for the rest of our lives.
It's so wonderful to know you'll always be around
I feel grateful that you will always be there for me and we will always be together.
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: CHUCK JACKSON, MARVIN YANCY
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@fatimadelacruz6927
Inseparable, that's how we'll always be
Inseparable, just you and me
It's so wonderful to know you'll always be around me
Incredible, what you are to me
Incredible, you bring out the woman in me
With your style of love
Inseparable, yes we are
Well like a flower to a tree
Like words to a melody of love
There's no way we could break up
No words that can make us
Blow our thing. we're just
Inseparable, that's how it is
Inseparable, for the rest of our years
It's so wonderful to know you'll always be around.
@sharonwelch6196
A young lady on The Voice just absolutely nailed this song
@mickjones6369
She killed it and blew this version out of the water ......
@PNWOlygurl66
Yes she did! I am voting for Jershika to WIN , She did a gorgeous version. ❤️
@miwe8003
@@mickjones6369 She killed it but she didn't drive this out of the water. This is still a great rendition that holds its own.
@anitawalker8572
Yesss she did
@rosacolbert5768
She did a Awesome job on the Voice
@jcorinthianwhite4418
3/13/2024 I was praying over 2 pics of a Mother & Daughter, to create a 43rd Heavenly Birthday Memorial for the daughter, who passed on at a young age of 32 yrs old. While praying, I begin singing this song out of nowhere. I knew it from above to send a message of love to the Mother.
I will Obey, and sent this to the mother. Thank You and Thank You LORD!
@geoffreylodewyke477
An absolute masterclass from the late legendary songbird Natalie Cole.
R.I.P.
@PNWOlygurl66
Jershika, the young woman on the Voice this season sang this to perfection ! ❤️ I cried it was so Beautiful!
@laylahbarnes3997
she for sure drove a lot of us here just to see!! mann she 2.0 the song!!!
#upgraded