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International Pop, R&B and Jazz legend Natalie Cole, joins the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for An Unforgettable Evening with Natalie Cole at The Plenary, Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre on Tuesday 31 January 2012.
Throughout her highly successful career, the sultry and sophisticated songstress has received accolades in abundance - nine Grammy Awards, Songwriters Hall of Fame Hitmaker, George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award, three American Music Awards across the Adult Contemporary, Soul & Rhythm & Blues genres and three NAACP Image Awards - 2000 Outstanding Actress in a Television, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special (Livin' For Love: The Natalie Cole Story) and Best Jazz Artist in 2002 & 2009.
Natalie is the daughter of the late Jazz icon Nat King Cole and first recorded with her father at the age of six on his Christmas album. A tomboy who delighted in mischief and music, she often walked onstage during performances or sneaked into the jam sessions with Louis Armstrong and other celebrated artists.
Natalie released her debut album Inseparable in 1975 and became a star in her own right with the #1 single This Will Be (An Everlasting Love), earning her first two Grammy Awards in 1976.
Her 1987 album Everlasting was a cohesive merge of eighties dance floor funk and tasteful adult contemporary tributes, producing the hits - Pink Cadillac, Jump Start, Everlasting, I Live For Your Love, When I Fall In Love and I've Got Love on My Mind.
The seminal 1991 jazz collection, Unforgettable...With Love, was Natalie's tribute to her father. It included the posthumous duet Unforgettable, sold more than fourteen million copies worldwide and received six Grammy Awards.
Recent albums have brought the hits Miss You Like Crazy, Sophisticated Lady, Inseparable, Our Love and Over You amongst others.
As an author, Natalie documented her journey through privilege and poverty, success and serious illness in her deeply personal autobiography Angel On My Shoulder, which was produced for television as the biopic Livin' For Love: The Natalie Cole Story.
Diagnosed with chronic Hepatitis C whilst recording her 2008 album Still Unforgettable, Natalie acknowledges that the infection likely resulted from addiction decades ago. Her second memoir in 2009, Love Brought Me Back, chronicles the bitter-sweet story linked to her kidney transplant and recovery. Natalie is now the spokesperson for the Los Angeles University Kidney Research Organisation which supports the prevention, treatment and eradication of kidney disease.
Film and television credits include the lead role in Lily In Winter, De-Lovely the Cole Porter biopic, Always Outnumbered and as herself in Livin' For Love: The Natalie Cole Story. She has appeared in over 300 television programs including Law and Order, Grey's Anatomy, American Idol, The Real Housewives of Miami and New York, concerts with Andrea Bocelli, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute, the Super Bowl XXVIII and more.
If You've Got Love On Your Mind....don't miss An Unforgettable Evening with Natalie Cole and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday 31 January 2012 at The Plenary, Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre.
This Will Be the only Melbourne performance and Grace Knight Quartet are special guests.
The show was dynamite!! Natalie Cole came out exactly on time (well, one minute past the scheduled start) in a stunning dress and wowed us with some classics. We even learned that Charlie Chaplin penned at least one hit. She then moved to some of her contemporary hits and rocked the house.
Natalie looked beautiful and sang wonderfully. I enjoyed every moment, but, did think the concert was on the short side (less than 90 minutes including the encore) for what I paid to attend (over $100 with taxes and fees).
Natalie Cole put on an awesome show! She was full of energy from start to finish.
The show started on time. Natalie looked beautiful. Her grace and poise were amazing. She gave a wonderful performance.
I have seen Natalie Cole probably 8 times in the last 20 years. I thought that this was probably her best performance. Her song selection was perfect! She did a number of tunes from the Unforgettable album and a number of other American songbook classics. Her voice was spectacular. Only downside is that the show was only about 70 minutes.
Natalie Cole was just like the title to one of her many hits.."unforgettable". She gave a performance that left the audience satisfied, yet yearning for her next appearance in Ohio. She is a true heroin in the music industry.
She sounded great and looked good, but the show was too short. It only lasted a little over an hour.
Natalie Cole voice was amazing..... She took you back to a time and place that I never thought I could go there again. Simply amazing.
Natalie's voice was amazing. She's a legend that's lived up to her family name.
Natalie has still got IT! Her set included songs covering her whole career including the first song she wrote (country song).
great artist. band was great. back up singers great
The show started on time, Natalie Cole was incredible she did a couple of new songs (Spanish) 2 big screen duets with her Dad the incomparable Nat "King" Cole, which is a heart tug for me. All the Great hits you want to hear from Ms.Cole and her Voice was sheer perfection!! chat with audience between songs made it feel like you were in a small personal venue !! Great show in every Way!!!!!!!!!
It was a geat show, Natalie was at her best!!!! The band was fabulous, and she sang with such power and artistry !!!!!!! I have not seen her perform "live " in years, but I can say, she still has a namazing voice !!!!
Fabulous voice. Great choice of songs. Loved when she sang with the video of her father singing the same song.
She still has a great voice but made no effort to "connect" with the audience. It is not always just about the music but being able to use a talent to reach out to people. The show was short for the cost of the tickets. Her band was average as well as the back up singers. There was little to no showmanship.
I grew up listening to my parents play Cole Sinatra and the big bands. This performance was not only a trip down memory lane with the videos/ photos but an experience that I will always remember. If a performance is great I am usually on my feet at the end of the show. I found myself standing up applauding after a song!! She hit a chord with me.
Natalie Cole is most definitely music royalty. I was taken aback by her frail state, but her voice was par excellence. The set was short, started at 8:15 - ended 9:30, despite that kudos to Ms. Cole!
Natalie Cole put on an unforgettable performance, despite the fact that the venue was freezing cold. She even had to stop the performance for maintenance to bring out a portable heater. Her encore was done in her bathrobe. The Tropicana is a dump.
Natalie was excellent and did a wide array of hits and new music from her newest release and also incorporated past duets with her dad.
Ms. Natalie Cole never disappoints. Another great concert
