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Natalie Cole & Nat King Cole Foundations Duet on Charitable Causes to Promote ‘Transformative Power of Music’
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Natalie Cole & Nat King Cole Foundations Duet on Charitable Causes to Promote ‘Transformative Power of Music’

When Natalie Cole released Unforgettable … with Love in 1991, it became her most successful album to date. The covers project, featuring standards recorded by her late father, Nat King Cole , cemented Cole’s own legacy in the R&B/pop/jazz arena, going seven-times platinum and winning the Grammy Award for album of the year. It also spun off the father/daughter title track duet “Unforgettable,” which won three Grammys, including record of the year.

Thirty-five years later, Natalie Cole’s musical legacy is still having an unforgettable impact in other ways, by sustaining the Cole family’s commitment to giving back and paying it forward. The singer-songwriter’s foundation has donated more than $1 million during the last two years, funding scholarships and various charitable causes across the country and globally, including a community center in Costa Rica.

Cole is once again duetting with her dad on the charitable front as well. Earlier this year, the Natalie Cole Foundation and the Nat King Cole Foundation joined forces to support certain scholarships and charities. Among those recipients are the Harlem School of the Arts, Berklee College...

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Original reporting by Billboard