Nina Simone was a complicated woman. That complexity was one of many things about her that launched her to stardom as one of the most revered and beloved jazz and R&B singer/songwriters of her ...
Friends and fans bade farewell to Nina Simone, the “high priestess of soul,” in the southern French town of Carry-le-Rouet on Friday at a funeral haunted by her mournful version of Jacques Brel’s “Ne ...
It was a bloody Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963 that inspired the singer and pianist Nina Simone’s famous protest song, “Mississippi Goddam ...