For a mild-mannered man whose music was always easy on the ear, Nat King Cole managed to be a figure of considerable controversy during his 30 years as a professional musician. From the late '40s to the mid-'60s, he was a massively successful pop singer who ranked with such contemporaries as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Dean Martin.
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Nat King Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles at Montgomery, Alabama. He received music lessons from his mother and his family moved to Chicago when he was only five, where his father Edward James Coles was a minister at the True Light Baptist Church and later Pastor of the First Baptist Church.With Nat 'King' Cole, Nelson Riddle, The Randy Van Horne Singers, The Cheerleaders. The popular singer hosts a muscial variety show.So, “Nat King Cole” was not just a nickname, but an apt stage name he deliberately chose as a play on his birth name. Nat first came to fame not as a singer, but as a jazz musician. He was the son of a Baptist minister in Montgomery, Alabama, and his mother, the choir director in his father’s church, began teaching him to play the piano at the age of four.
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