COLE, NAT

COLE, NAT (KING) (née NATHANIEL ADAMS COLES). Jazz pianist/Popular music singer (17 March 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama; 15 February 1965 in Santa Monica, California). He came from a musical family: his mother was choir director for his father's Baptist church, and his three brothers, Ike, Eddie, and Freddie, became professional musicians. He began playing piano at an early age and made his first public appearance when he was four years old in a talent show at the Regal Theater...