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.
L-O-V-E
Natalie Cole Lyrics
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O, is for the only one I see
V, is very, very extraordinary
E, is even more than anyone that you adore can
Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make itTake my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you
L, is for the way you look at me
O, is for the only one I see
V, is very, very extraordinary
E, is even more than anyone that you adore can
Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you
The lyrics to Natalie Cole's "L-O-V-E" are a simple yet heartfelt declaration of love. Each letter of the word "love" is broken down and explained in depth, as though the singer is trying to truly articulate the depth of emotion that she feels. The repetition of the letters helps to emphasize the importance of each one, and the fact that love is truly extraordinary and cannot be fully put into words.
The lyrics also speak to the power of love, and how it can be transformative for those who are lucky enough to experience it. The chorus states that "Love is all that I can give to you" and "Love was made for me and you", highlighting the fact that love is not just something that happens between two people, but rather it is something that can change the course of someone's life and bring new meaning and purpose.
Overall, the lyrics to "L-O-V-E" are a beautiful tribute to the power of love, and an attempt to explain the depth of emotion that comes with it. The simplicity of the lyrics is what makes them so moving, as it is clear that the singer is not trying to impress anyone with complex wordplay, but rather is simply trying to put into words what so many of us feel when we are in love.
Line by Line Meaning
L, is for the way you look at me
When you look at me, the way your eyes show that you care and feel love is one of the most important things to me.
O, is for the only one I see
When I look at you, you are the only one I see. You are the center of my world.
V, is very, very extraordinary
Our love is not ordinary - it is something special and unique. It is something that makes us stand out.
E, is even more than anyone that you adore can
The love that I have for you goes beyond anything that anyone else could possibly feel for you. It is something that is completely special and unique to us.
Love is all that I can give to you
All that I have to offer you is my love. It is the most important thing I can give you.
Love is more than just a game for two
Our love is not just some fun game. It is a serious commitment that we have made to one another.
Two in love can make it
When we are in love, we can make anything work. Our love is strong enough to overcome any obstacle.
Take my heart and please don't break it
My heart is in your hands. I trust you to take care of it and not break it.
Love was made for me and you
Our love is destiny. We were meant to be together and our love is proof of that.
Love was made for me and you [Repeat x 2]
Our love is so important that it bears repeating - it was made for us and no one else.
Lyrics Β© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Bert Kaempfert, Milt Gabler
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L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can
Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart but please donβ²t break it
Love was made for me and you
Yeah, L is for the way you look at me, you look at me
And O is for the only one I see
V is so very, very extraordinary
Now, E is even more than any, any, anyone that you adore can
Love is all that I'm gonna give to you
Oh, love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart but please donβ²t break it
'Cause love was made for me and you
I'm a telling you that love was made for me and you
Donβ²t you know that love was made for me and you, yeah
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Love her
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i hava friend named natalie and she sings wonderfully
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Best of best
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