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American singer, songwriter and performer, Natalie Cole, has an estimated net worth of $5 million. The daughter of jazz and pop legend Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole has forged a successful career in two phases, doing R&B/urban contemporary and then jazz-based pop. She made her stage debut at age 11 and sang in college. Cole met the writing and producing team of Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancey in 1973. The next year they collaborated on some sessions that were recorded at Curtis Mayfield's Curtom studios in Chicago. These helped her land a deal with Capitol, and she teamed with Jackson/Yancey for a string of hit albums and singles from 1975 until 1983. Such LPs as Inseparable, Natalie, Thankful, Unpredictable, and I Love You So yielded five number one R&B hits between 1975 and 1977.
After a period of failing sales and performances due to a heavy drug addiction, Cole reemerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album, Everlasting, and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she re-recorded standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... with Love, which sold over seven million copies and also won Cole numerous Grammy Awards. Cole has been married three times, she has a son Robert Adam "Robbie" Yancy (born October 1977); he is now a musician who tours with her. Cole was born Stephanie Natalie Maria Cole on February 6, 1950 in Los Angeles, California.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2001 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Ask a Woman Who Knows (252,000 copies sold in the US) |
$252,000 |
|
1995 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Stardust (certified platinum by RIAA) |
$1,200,000 |
|
1993 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Holly & Ivy (certified gold by RIAA and Music Canada) |
$565,000 |
|
1992 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Take a Look (certified gold by RIAA and Music Canada) |
$560,000 |
|
1990 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Unforgettable… with Love (certified 7x platinum by RIAA, 4x platinum by Music Canada, and gold by BPI) |
$7,500,000 |
|
1988 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Good to Be Back (certified gold by BPI) |
$100,000 |
|
1986 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Everlasting (certified gold by RIAA and silver by BPI) |
$560,000 |
|
1978 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album I Love You So (certified gold by RIAA) |
$505,000 |
|
1978 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album We're the Best of Friends with Peabo Bryson (certified gold by RIAA) |
$510,000 |
|
1977 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her live album Natalie Live! (certified gold by RIAA) |
$503,000 |
|
1976 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Thankful (certified platinum by RIAA) |
$1,100,000 |
|
1976 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Unpredictable (certified platinum by RIAA) |
$1,000,000 |
|
1975 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Natalie (certified gold by RIAA) |
$501,000 |
|
1974 |
Record Sales |
Estimated earnings from her album Inseparable (certified gold by RIAA) |
$500,000 |