Las chiapanecas (While There's Music There's Romance)

Nathaniel Adams Coles, known as Nat "King" Cole, was born in Montgomery in 1919. His father, Edward Coles, was a butcher and deacon, and the family moved to Chicago when he was a child. There, his father became a minister, and his mother, Perlina Adams, was his sole piano teacher, instilling in him from a young age both jazz and gospel and classical music. He grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood, a hub of nightlife and jazz clubs in the late 1920s, where he listened to figures like Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines. Inspired by Hines, Nat began his musical career in the mid-1930s. He adopted the stage name Nat Cole, and his brother Eddie, a bassist, joined him on his first recording in 1936. The band had local success in Chicago, and it was in one of those clubs that Nat received the nickname "King". Later, after a tour that took him to Long Beach, California, he decided to settle there.