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Nat King Cole: Summary

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Birthday:
3-17-1919
Birthplace:
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Birth Name:
Nathaniel Adams Coles
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  • Nat King Cole was scouted by the Negro Leagues before he got into music.(edit)
  • Nat King Cole won a Golden Globe in 1963 for "international contribution to the recording world."(edit)
  • Nat King Cole's singing career began largely by accident. Performing as a pianist with his trio in the late 1930s, a customer in a club asked to hear "Sweet Lorraine." Cole said he wasn't a singer, but the club's manager pressured him to sing, since the man was one of their best customers. That marked the unofficial start of Cole's career as a singer.(edit)
  • Nat King Cole initially disliked the ballad "Mona Lisa," but in 1950 it reached #1 on the charts and sold 3 million copies, becoming one of his signature hits.(edit)
  • Though he wrote "Straighten Up and Fly Right" and the song became one of his biggest hits, Nat King Cole sold the song for $50 and never made any more money from it as its writer.(edit)
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