San Diego Symphony News Release Embarcadero Marina Park South www.sandiegosymphony.com
Contact: Stephen Kougias June 5, 2015 Director of Public Relations 619.615.3951 [email protected] ______
Just added to the 2015 Summer Pops Lineup: ‘An Unforgettable Evening with Natalie Cole’
Nine-time Grammy Award-winner performs one night only, Sunday, August 23
Nine-time Grammy Award-winner, Natalie Cole has sold more than 30 million records worldwide. The daughter of Nat King Cole brings her talent, elegance and style to the San Diego Symphony Summer Pops on Sunday, August 23; 7:30pm in a performance: An Unforgettable Evening with Natalie Cole. Singer, songwriter, pianist and actress, Cole will perform several of her own R&B hits, the incomparable standards first recorded by her father and the most romantic songs of the great Spanish-language composers featured on Natalie Cole en Español, her latest album that will be released on June 25.
Natalie Cole rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with hits This Will Be, Inseparable and Our Love. She reemerged as a pop artist with her 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 seven million copies in the U.S. alone winning several Grammys including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance for the top song. Throughout the years, her hits also included I’ve Got Love on My Mind, Jump Start (My Heart), I Live for Your Love and Miss You Like Crazy.
With her latest album, Natalie Cole en Español, she finds herself inspired by both the bilingual recording legacy of her father, Nat King Cole, and a growing passion for the timeless romanticism of the great Latin composers. Natalie Cole en Español will reintroduce a new generation of fans to many of Latin music’s most romantic standards—with both new interpretations of Spanish-language classics previously recorded by Nat King Cole and Natalie’s own personal selections of songs that have touched her heart and make this album truly her own. Highlights include Natalie joining Juan Luis Guerra on the Dominican Maestro’s own Bachata Rosa and with Andrea Bocelli on the eternal Bésame Mucho. But most notably is the pairing of Natalie and her father in a heartfelt duet of Acércate Más.
An Unforgettable Evening with Natalie Cole also featuring the San Diego Symphony conducted by Summer Pops principal conductor Matthew Garbutt takes place at Embarcadero Marina Park South on Sunday, August 23 at 7:30pm. For more information and to purchase tickets, please call the box office at 619.235.0804 or visit www.sandiegosymphony.com.
Seinfeld star, Jason Alexander, originally scheduled for the Summer Pops on August 23, is currently appearing on Broadway in Larry David’s Fish in the Dark. Jason Alexander will appear with the San Diego Symphony next spring on its City Lights series on April 8 and 9, 2016.
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San Diego Symphony – Ashford University 2015 Summer Pops
An Unforgettable Evening with Natalie Cole
San Diego Symphony Matthew Garbutt, conductor
Sunday, August 23, 2015; 7:30pm; gates open at 6pm
Embarcadero Marina Park South 206 Marina Park Way San Diego, CA 92101
Tickets: $20-$79 Box Office: 619.235.0804 Website: www.sandiegosymphony.com
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