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Nathaniel Adams Coles, known worldwide 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 the church organist and his sole piano teacher. Nat absorbed influences from jazz, gospel music, and classical music. He grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood, a vibrant center of nightlife and jazz clubs in the late 1920s, where he listened to figures like Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines. Inspired by Hines, he began his musical career in the mid-1930s. He adopted the stage name Nat Cole, omitting the final "s" from his surname. His brother Eddie, a bassist, joined his band for their first recording in 1936. They had a local hit in Chicago, and it was in one of those clubs that he received the nickname "King". Cole also had the opportunity to play as a pianist on a tour with Eubie Blake, and upon arriving in Long Beach, California, he decided to settle there. He passed away in Santa Monica in 1965.