Natalie Cole

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Sizzlingly talented, yet fragile...achieving, yet insecure...responsible, yet reckless - Natalie Cole has been there and done it all. Her comeback album won an unprecedented seven Grammys as her marriage collapsed into jealousy and abuse. She has known both glittering privilege as a member of one of Hollywood's most famous families - and poverty on the streets of Manhattan.

Now Natalie tells her uniquely insightful, deeply personal story. As the daughter of legendary singer Nat King Cole and an elegantly reserved, upwardly striving mother, Natalie was a tomboy who delighted in mischief and music. As a little girl, she unexpectedly wandered onstage during one of her father's performances and often sneaked into his casual jam sessions with Louis Armstrong and other celebrated artists. As she grew older and after her father died, her love of music and sense of adventure led her to risk a singing career of her own - even as unresolved grief helped drive her into heroin and cocaine addiction and homelessness.