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Natalie Cole holds her Grammy Award for "Still Unforgettable" at the 51st annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 8, 2009. (UPI Photo/ Phil McCarten) 
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Published: May 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM

LOS ANGELES, May 26 (UPI) -- Natalie Cole's publicist says the U.S. singer has been released from a Los Angeles hospital following her kidney transplant surgery.

Cole has from hepatitis C and had been undergoing kidney dialysis three times a week when she received a call from doctors last week saying a kidney was available from a donor and she should head to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles immediately for transplant surgery.

The singer's representative told People.com the 59-year-old Grammy Award winner left the hospital Sunday and had planned to attend a private family memorial service Monday for her sister Carol "Cookie" Cole.

Cookie Cole died of lung cancer while Natalie was having her kidney transplant surgery.

"Natalie is continuing to do well under the circumstances," her publicist told People.com, adding the recording artist is expected to spend the next three to four months recovering from her operation.

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