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{{Infobox musical artist
{{Infobox musical artist
| image = File:Nat and Maria Cole 1951.jpg
| image = File:Nat and Maria Cole 1951.jpg
|caption=Nat and Maria Cole, 1951
|caption=Cole with her husband Nat, 1951.
| background = solo_singer
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Maria Hawkins
| birth_name = Maria Hawkins
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| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2012|7|10|1922|8|1}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2012|7|10|1922|8|1}}
| death_place =[[Boca Raton, Florida]]
| death_place =[[Boca Raton, Florida]]
| genre = [[Jazz]]
| interred = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale]], California
| instrument = Vocals
| associated_acts = [[Natalie Cole]]
| associated_acts = [[Natalie Cole]], [[Nat King Cole]], [[Duke Ellington]]
}}
}}
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'''Maria Hawkins Cole'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.ncdcr.gov/2008/06/11/nat-king-coles-widow-maria-cole-visits-charlotte-hawkins-brown-museum/|title=Nat "King" Cole's Widow Maria Cole Visits Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum}}</ref> (August 1, 1922 – July 10, 2012) was an [[American]] [[jazz]] singer and the wife of singer [[Nat King Cole]]; mother of the late singer [[Natalie Cole]].<ref name="AP">{{cite news|url=http://news.yahoo.com/widow-nat-king-cole-dies-cancer-89-014826877.html|title=Widow of Nat 'King' Cole dies of cancer at 89|last=[[Associated Press]]|date=July 11, 2012|publisher=[[Yahoo! News]]|accessdate=July 12, 2012}}</ref><ref name=Hentoff>{{cite book|last=Gene Lees, Nat Hentoff|title=You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|year=2004|pages=227–35}}</ref>

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'''Maria Hawkins Cole'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.ncdcr.gov/2008/06/11/nat-king-coles-widow-maria-cole-visits-charlotte-hawkins-brown-museum/|title=Nat "King" Cole's Widow Maria Cole Visits Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum}}</ref> (August 1, 1922 – July 10, 2012) was the wife of singer [[Nat King Cole]] and mother of the late singer [[Natalie Cole]].<ref name="AP">{{cite news|url=http://news.yahoo.com/widow-nat-king-cole-dies-cancer-89-014826877.html|title=Widow of Nat 'King' Cole dies of cancer at 89|last=[[Associated Press]]|date=July 11, 2012|publisher=[[Yahoo! News]]|accessdate=July 12, 2012}}</ref><ref name=Hentoff>{{cite book|last=Gene Lees, Nat Hentoff|title=You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|year=2004|pages=227–35}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 03:52, 4 January 2016

Maria Cole
Cole with her husband Nat, 1951.
Cole with her husband Nat, 1951.
Background information
Birth nameMaria Hawkins
Born(1922-08-01)August 1, 1922
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedJuly 10, 2012(2012-07-10) (aged 89)
Boca Raton, Florida
GenresJazz
InstrumentVocals

Maria Hawkins Cole[1] (August 1, 1922 – July 10, 2012) was an American jazz singer and the wife of singer Nat King Cole; mother of the late singer Natalie Cole.[2][3]

Biography

Cole was born in Boston and was the niece of Charlotte Hawkins Brown.[4][5] Her father, Mingo Hawkins, was a letter carrier. Her mother, Carol, died while giving birth to her sister.[6][7][8] She was a jazz singer who worked most notably with Count Basie and Duke Ellington. She met Nat "King" Cole while they were both singing at the Zanzibar club.[2][3] She had 4 children in addition to Natalie: Carol, adopted by her and Nat when she was 3, when her birth mother (Maria's sister Carol Hawkins Lane) died; son Kelly, who died of AIDS in 1995, and twin daughters Timolin and Casey. She was known as Maria Ellington during her first marriage to Spurgeon Ellington, a Tuskegee Airman). Her third marriage was to Gary DeVore. They ran an Inn in the Berkshires together for several years. That marriage ended in divorce.[citation needed]

Death

Maria Cole died in a nursing home in Boca Raton, Florida on July 10, 2012, at the age of 89, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Nat "King" Cole's Widow Maria Cole Visits Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum".
  2. ^ a b c Associated Press (July 11, 2012). "Widow of Nat 'King' Cole dies of cancer at 89". Yahoo! News. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Gene Lees, Nat Hentoff (2004). You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat. U of Nebraska Press. pp. 227–35.
  4. ^ "Nat "King" Cole's Widow Maria Cole Visits Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum". North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. June 11, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
  5. ^ Henry Louis Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (2004). African American Lives. Oxford University Press. p. 106. ISBN 9780195160246.
  6. ^ Notable Black American Women. Books.google.ca. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
  7. ^ "Nat "King" Cole's Widow Maria Cole Visits Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum". News.ncdcr.gov. February 25, 1965. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
  8. ^ Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood. Books.google.ca. Retrieved July 13, 2012.

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