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Lionel Frederick Cole was born in 1931 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois where his minister father and musically inclined mother encouraged him to start playing piano around age five. As with his piano-playing older brothers, Ike Cole and Nat King Cole, Freddy Cole excelled at music, and by his teens was already a gifted performer.
Jul 4, 2020 · Freddy Cole performs with his combo at a jazz festival in Edmonds, Wash., on March 4, 2011. Freddy Cole, a pianist and vocalist who spent much of his musical life in the shadow of his brother Nat King Cole, but whose durable talents carried him through a triumphant late-career resurgence, died Saturday in Atlanta. He was 88.
Jun 30, 2020 · Freddy Cole was a jazz singer and pianist who was nominated for several Grammy Awards, including in 2019 for Best Jazz Vocal Album. He was Nat King Cole's younger brother. For full obituary and ...
Jun 28, 2020 · Jazz great Freddy Cole, the younger brother of Nat "King" Cole who built his own reputation as a pianist and vocalist, died Saturday. He was 88.The cause was complications from a cardiovascular ailmen
Jazz vocalist and pianist Freddy Cole died on June 27. Cole was a world-renowned musician who distinguished himself from his older brother, Nat King Cole, with a down-to-earth demeanor on stage and by following his own musical path. Cole also called Atlanta home. To honor the life and legacy of Cole, five members of Atlanta’s jazz community ...
