1. Lionel Frederick Cole was an American jazz singer and pianist whose recording career spanned almost 70 years.
10 Facts About Freddy Cole
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Freddy Cole was the brother of musicians Nat King Cole, Eddie Cole, and Ike Cole, father of Lionel Cole, and uncle of Natalie Cole and Carole Cole.
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Freddy Cole was born to Rev Edward J Coles and Perlina Coles, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois.
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Freddy Cole began playing piano at the age of six, and continued his musical education at the Roosevelt Institute in Chicago.
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Freddy Cole moved to New York in 1951, where he studied at the Juilliard School of Music before completing a master's degree at the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Freddy Cole went on to work with Grover Washington, Jr.
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Freddy Cole was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Freddy Cole's influences included John Lewis, Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson and Billy Eckstine.
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Freddy Cole doesn't feel you need a lot of extra, fancy stuff.
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Freddy Cole was remembered by notable jazz artists in an article in ArtsATL.