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44—Cleveland Daily Banner—Sunday, January 3, 2016 www.clevelandbanner.com Natalie Cole, master of past and present styles, dies at age 65 AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek MeMbers of the Polish American String Band perform during the 116th annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia on Friday. Outrageously costumed Mummers strutted their stuff Friday at the city's annual New Year's Day parade, a colorful celebration that features string bands, comic brigades, elaborate floats and plenty of feathers and sequins. Philadelphia celebrates New Year’s Day with annual Mummers Parade PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Outrageously costumed Mummers have strutted and twirled at Philadelphia’s annual New Year’s Day parade, a colorful celebration that features string bands, comic brigades, elaborate floats and plenty of feathers and sequins. Participants danced wildly a nd toted parasols Friday down Broad Street, the city’s main north-south thoroughfare, during the 116th edition of what has been called Philadelphia’s Mardi Gras. New this year was the “Philadelphia Division,” meant to inject some diversity into the parade, with two new Hispanic performance groups, a black drill team and the LGBT Miss Fancy Brigade. But some critics called the parade offensive, with one performing group painting their faces brown to portray Mexicans and a comic brigade mocking Caitlyn Jenner. Dozens of activists from the Black Lives Matter movement used the parade to stage a protest. LOS ANGELES (AP) — She began as a 1970s soul singer hyped as the next Aretha Franklin and peaked in the 1990s as an oldfashioned stylist and time-defying duet partner to her late father, Nat “King” Cole. Natalie Cole, who died Thursday in Los Angeles at age 65, was a Grammy winning superstar honored and haunted by comparisons to others. “Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived ... with dignity, strength and honor. Our beloved Mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain UNFORGETTABLE in our hearts forever,” read a statement from her son, Robert Yancy, and sisters Timolin and Casey Cole. According to her family, Cole died of complications from ongoing health issues. She had battled drug problems and hepatitis that forced her to undergo a kidney transplant in May 2009. Cole’s older sister, Carol “Cookie” Cole, died the day she received the transplant. Their brother, Nat Kelly Cole, died in 1995. “I had to hold back the tears,” Franklin, who had feuded with Cole early in Cole’s career, said in a statement. “She fought for so long. She was one of the greatest singers of our time. She represented the Cole legend of excellence and class quite well.” A mezzo-soprano with striking range and power, Cole was destined to be a singer, the only question being what kind. She was inspired by her dad at an early age and auditioned to sing with him when she was just 11 years old. She was 15 when he died of lung cancer, in 1965, and would reunite with him decades later in a way only possible through modern technology. All along, she was moved by and sometimes torn between past and present sounds. As a young woman, she had listened to Franklin and Janis Joplin and for years was reluctant to perform her father’s material. She sang on stage with Frank Sinatra, but also covered Bruce Springsteen’s “Pink Cadillac.” “I was determined to create my own identity,” she wrote in her TE ABSOLU N! AUCTIO Natalie Cole 2010 memoir “Love Brought Me Back.” The public loved her either way. She made her recording debut in 1975 with “Inseparable,” and the music industry welcomed her with two Grammy Awards — one for best new artist and one for best female R&B vocal performance for her buoyant hit “This Will Be (An Everlasting Love).” Her quick success and the similarities to Franklin, another mezzo-soprano, did not please the “Queen of Soul,” who at the time called Cole “just a beginner.” “The first time I saw Aretha was at an industry banquet,” Cole later told Franklin biographer David Ritz. “She gave me an icy stare and turned her back on me. It took me weeks to recover.” Backed by the writing-producing team of Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancy, she followed with such hits as “Our Love” and “I’ve Got Love on My Mind,” and by 1979 had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But her career faded in the early 1980s and she battled heroin, crack cocaine and alcohol addiction for many years. She spent six months in rehab in 1983. Her recovery began later in the decade with the album “Everlasting” and reached multiplatinum heights with her 1991 album, “Unforgettable ... With Love.” No longer trying to keep up with current sounds, Cole paid tribute to her father with reworked versions of some of his best-known songs, including “That Sunday That Summer,” ‘’Too Young” and “Mona Lisa.” Her voice was overlaid with her dad’s in the title cut, offering a delicate duet a quarter-century after his death. Although criticized by some as morbid, the album sold some 14 million copies and won six Grammys, including album of the year as well record and song of the year for the title track duet. While making the album, Cole told The Associated Press in 1991, she had to “throw out every R&B lick that I had ever learned and every pop trick I had ever learned. With him, the music was in the background and the voice was in the front.” “I didn’t shed really any real tears until the album was over,” Cole said. “Then I cried a whole lot. When we started the project it was a way of reconnecting with my dad. Then when we did the last song, I had to say goodbye again.” She was nominated for an Emmy award in 1992 for a televised performance of her father’s songs. “That was really my thank you,” she told People magazine in 2006. “I owed that to him.” Another father-daughter duet, “When I Fall in Love,” won a 1996 Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals, and a follow-up album, “Still Unforgettable,” won for best traditional pop vocal album of 2008. She also worked as an actress, with appearances on TV’s “Touched by an Angel” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” But she was happiest touring and performing live. “I still love recording and still love the stage,” she said on her website in 2008, “but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.” Cole was born in 1950 to Nat “King” Cole and his wife, Maria Ellington Cole, a onetime vocalist with Duke Ellington who was no relation to the great bandleader. Her father’s graceful easygoing style was admired by Sinatra, Ray Charles and many others and, in 1956, he became the first black entertainer to host a national TV variety show. OPEN HOUSE TODAY 2-4 PM ! ANOTHER JOHN SANDERS AUCTION Saturday, January 9th • 10:30 am 2040 TREWHITT ROAD SE • CLEVELAND, TN Living Estate of Margaret Bonner AP photo MeMber s of the Woodland String Band perform during the 116th annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia on Friday. Outrageously costumed Mummers strutted their stuff Friday at the city's annual New Year's Day parade. BRADLEY C O U N T Y, TENNESSEE Japanese research institute earns the right to name element 113 TOKYO (AP) — A team of Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming a new element, the synthetic highly radioactive element 113, more than a dozen years after they began working to create it. Kosuke Morita, who was leading the research at the government-affiliated Riken Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, was notified of the decision on Thursday by the U.S.based International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. “Now that we have conclusively demonstrated the existence of element 113, we plan to look to the unchartered territory of element 119 and beyond,” Morita said in a statement. A joint working group of the IUPAC and International Union of Pure and Applied Physics also announced decisions on recognition of discoveries of elements 115, 117 and 118. Discoveries of atomic elements have often involved competition between scientists. The news is a morale booster for Riken, which has undergone a reorganization of some of its research following a scandal over stem-cell research. “To scientists, this is of greater value than an Olympic gold medal,” Ryoji Noyori, former Riken president and Nobel laureate in chemistry told reporters. Riken had earlier said japonium might be proposed as a name for element 113, which provisionally had been named ununtrium. However, Morita has no specific candidates under consideration. He said he planned to spend part of next year considering a name for the element. The IUPAC group gave collabo- LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! UP FOR AUCTION IS A FANTASTIC 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH RANCHER SITUATED ON .34± ACRES. THE HOME FEATURES FORMAL DINING SPACE COMBINED WITH THE LIVING ROOM WHICH HAVE LAMINATE FLOORING, A GALLEY KITCHEN, AND A POPULAR SPLIT-BEDROOM FLOORPLAN. THE HOME ALSO HAS A DOUBLE CARPORT & STORAGE BUILDING AND IS IN A GREAT LOCATION JUST MINUTES FROM TOWN! Kyodo News via AP KosuKe MoritA of Riken Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science points at periodic table of the elements during a press conference in Wako, Saitama prefecture, near Tokyo Thursday. A team of Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming a new element, the synthetic highly radioactive element 113, more than a dozen years after they began working to create it. Morita was notified of the decision on Thursday by the U.S.-based International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. rating teams from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge the right to name elements 115 and 117. Separately, scientists from the Dubna laboratory and Lawrence Livermore were invited to name element 118. Element 113 sits between copernicium and flerovium on the periodic table. A joint team of scientists in Russia and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the U.S. also were vying for naming rights for 113 after announcing its discovery in 2004. Morita and his group used Riken’s linear accelerator and ion separator to search for new synthetic superheavy elements, beginning in the late 1980s. In 2003, his team began working to create element 113 by bombarding a thin layer of bismuth with zinc ions traveling at about 10 percent the speed of light, Riken said. Isotopes of element 113 have a very short half-life, lasting for less than a thousandth of a second, making its discovery very difficult. DIRECTIONS: From APD 40, take the Spring Place Rd. Exit & Turn Left, Right on Trewhitt Rd. & Watch for Auction Signs! AGENTS: AGENTS: 2% 2% BROKER BROKER PARTICIPATION PARTICIPATION OFFERED! OFFERED! 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