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.
Lovers
Natalie Cole Lyrics
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Lovers
Lovers
Lovers ev'rywhere!
Ev'rywhere I go,
In ev'ry face I see, the sign of love
Shining so brightly.
It's ev'rywhere, I can feel it in my bones,
People holdin' hands,
Makin' love really, really gettin' it on.
I'm talkin' about lovers,
Beautiful lovers
Lovers ev'rywhere.
Yeah, yeah, lovers,
Beautiful lovers
Lovers ev'rywhere.
And ev'rywhere I go I hear people say
That they wouldn't mind checkin' it out,
Aw, gettin' down,
Don't you know that life can be beautiful,
Life can be wonderful when you can always have that special someone around
And I'm talkin' 'bout lovers, ooo beautiful lovers,
Don't you know that they're ev'rywhere,
Lovers,
Beautiful lovers,
Ev'rywhere, ev'rywhere, ev'rywhere.
If you like romancing and you don't want no dancin'
Then check this groove out baby,
You'll see
It is the sweetest sugar that you'd ever taste,
You gotta chase those blues, get over 'em
Don't stop now
Control 'em
And then you'll find you're shakin' 'em
Get it all while you can
Have a ball.
There's a feelin and it's catchin
Look what's happ'nin,
Take a trip
Make it hip,
'Cause you'll dig it!
Lovers,
Beautiful lovers
Lovers ev'rywhere
The lyrics of Natalie Cole's song "Lovers" exude a sense of happiness and joy that come with the presence of love. Everywhere she turns, she sees people in love, holding hands, making love, and simply enjoying the company of their significant others. She is mesmerized by the beauty of love and the way it seems to radiate from people's faces.
The lyrics suggest that people crave love and the happiness it brings. Life can be complicated, but having that special someone around can make it all worth it. The song encourages people to go after what they want and not give up on love, even if it means chasing the blues and controlling their fears. Love is the sweetest sugar that you will ever taste, and it's worth taking a chance on.
Overall, "Lovers" is an upbeat and uplifting song that celebrates the beauty of love and encourages people to go after it.
Line by Line Meaning
Lovers
Love is the central theme and focus of this song.
Lovers ev'rywhere!
The presence of love is acknowledged to be ubiquitous and inescapable.
Ev'rywhere I go,
In ev'ry face I see, the sign of love
Shining so brightly.
Love is not only everywhere, but it is also readily observable and evident in the demeanor and appearance of those encountered.
It's in the air,
It's ev'rywhere, I can feel it in my bones,
People holdin' hands,
Makin' love really, really gettin' it on.
The pervasiveness of love is not just metaphorical, but is so palpable and intense that it is sensed on a molecular level, characterized by displays of intimacy and sexuality in public spaces.
I'm talkin' about lovers,
Beautiful lovers
Lovers ev'rywhere.
The singer is explicitly addressing the phenomenon of being caught up in or observing romantic relationships.
And ev'rywhere I go I hear people say
That they wouldn't mind checkin' it out,
Aw, gettin' down,
Couples in public are often flirtatious and openly suggestive, which is a persuasive invitation for others to scrutinize the joy and pleasure in that kind of intense emotional bond.
Don't you know that life can be beautiful,
Life can be wonderful when you can always have that special someone around
The singer is advocating for the value of having a romantic partner, arguing that it can make even the most difficult parts of life more bearable.
If you like romancing and you don't want no dancin'
Then check this groove out baby,
You'll see
The affirmative ethos of both romance and dance are posited as coequal pleasures in a person's life, but for the purposes of this song it is romance that is being prioritized over dance.
There's a feelin and it's catchin
Look what's happ'nin,
Take a trip
Make it hip,
'Cause you'll dig it!
The song encourages a spirit of openness and experimentation with regard to romance and the many ways to embrace it with an attitude of ease and joyfulness.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: BARRY ALAN GIBB, MAURICE ERNEST GIBB, ROBIN HUGH GIBB
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Jaye Love
I just love Natalie.....she's a major chip off the old block....not just the physical aspect of her handsome and talented father the late Nat King Cole....but talented just like her namesake as well....rest easy Nat, Natalie and Robby Yancy.😍😘
Celan Camargo
Jamais esquecerei a primeira vez que ouvi essa musica. Entramos no lobby do teatro do Anhembi/ SP em 1978 para o Montreaux Jazz Festival e essa música tocava muito alto e foi uma delícia
Eu e meu amado e saudoso irmão Marcos Amaral
Unforgettable
robgina62
Natalie also recorded a slightly different version of this song for her 1993 album "Take a Look". I personally like this 1977 original version better.
Dell Harding
My favorite female singer
RIP
Melody Sanger
40 YEARS AGO TODAY (November 16, 1977): Natalie Cole released her 4th album "Thankful" on this day (#5 R&B album charts; #16 pop album charts) [11/16/2017]
Aarav Everett
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Karson Ali
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Samson Will
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Aarav Everett
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Karson Ali
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