Monday, March 16, 2015

BIRTH OF ANOTHER KING


NAT KING COLE was born on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1956, he became the first Black person to host a nationwide network television program, The Nat Cole Show.

Although Cole started his career as a jazz pianist, he became a legendary pop and jazz singer, using his soft baritone voice to swoon everybody, man or woman. His greatest hits include "Mona Lisa," "Rambling Rose,"  and "The Christmas Song." 

Nat King Cole is  the father of Natlie Cole, born in 1950, who went on to a successful career as a singer herself.



Nat King Cole died of cancer in 1965. 


To read the bio of his groundbreaking career Google-search his name.

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