Nat King Cole in ''The Blue Gardenia'' (1953)]]
Nat "King" Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) was a hugely popular American singer and jazz musician. Childhood and Chicago
Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Alabama. The year of his birth has been reported as 1917 and 1915, but according to Daniel Mark Epstein's biography of Cole, the 1920 Census reported Nat as an infant.
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