Nat King Cole was a trail blazer! His voice was unique. He is also a pioneer in African American Television Programming which makes this close to my heart.
The Nat “King” Cole Show, premiered on NBC as a fifteen-minute weekly musical variety show in November 1956. Cole, an international star as a jazz pianist and uniquely gifted vocalist, became the first major black performer to host a network variety series. It was a bruising experience for him, however, and an episode in television history that illuminates the state of race relations in the United States at the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. More
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_King_Cole
Nat King Cole has a Brother Named Freddy Cole who still performs
