When Natalie Cole finished in the rankings

If she hadn’t passed away in 2015, Natalie Coleborn on February 6, 1950 in Los Angeles from the union between the jazz legend Nat King Cole And Maria Ellington Colehe would have turned 74 today. There R&B singerwhich made its debut on the record market with the album in the mid-seventies “Inseparable”has placed quite a few hits in the US charts, entering the top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first time the same year as his debut, in 1975, reaching with the song “This Will Be” position number six. The general public Natalie Cole however, he achieved it much later thanks to

“Unforgettable…With Love”with 14 million copies sold and several Grammys under its belt. The life of one of the most significant voices of R&B was not simple, marked by a long battle with addiction and health problems linked to a kidney transplant and hepatitis C, which after several complications led Natalie Cole to cardiac arrest. We remember her by going through the Hot 100 of the music biz bible Billboard for all the times in which the daughter of art entered the charts, taking into consideration, in ascending order, only the highest positions reached. Along with the song, you will find the date and location.

“SOPHISTICATED LADY (SHE’S A DIFFERENT LADY)”, N. 25, 8/7/1976