On July 28, 1936, as Eddie Cole's Swingsters, they recorded two singles for Decca Records, Nat King Cole's recording debut. That fall, they were hired to perform in a revival of the all-black Broadway musical revue Shuffle Along.
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.
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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Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and jazz pianist. He recorded over one hundred songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model.
Nat King Cole covered That's All There Is, Spring Is Here, Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside), The End of a Love Affair and other songs. Nat King Cole originally did That's All There Is, Spring Is Here, Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside), The End of a Love Affair and other songs. Nat King Cole wrote Straighten Up and Fly Right, Calypso Blues and Are You Fer It.
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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.He shared with those peers a career that encompassed hit.
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About Nat King Cole. Nat King Cole's great piano work with his jazz trio got overshadowed by his massive vocal success in the 1950s yet each phase of his career offers up so many riches that it proves that the lines between jazz and popular music just don't matter.
Nat King Cole, byname of Nathaniel Adams Cole, family name originally Coles, (born March 17, 1919, Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.—died February 15, 1965, Santa Monica, California), American musician hailed as one of the best and most influential pianists and small-group leaders of the swing era.
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