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| | Nina Simone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was a singer, songwriter and pianist. | | | In 1961, Simone recorded a version of the traditional song "House of the Rising Sun", a song which was later recorded by Bob Dylan and was a hit for The Animals. | | | She was able to begin studying piano at New York City's prestigious Juilliard School of Music, thanks to the sponsorship of benefactors, but lack of funds meant that she was unable to fulfill her dream of becoming America's first African-American concert pianist. |
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| | Nina Simone: She Cast a Spell—and Made a Choice |
| | The interests in Simone's music by a generation of artists, largely born after her recording of "Mississippi Goddam" is just further evidence of the potency of her spirit. | | | Simone's career her access to the super club set—would be radically altered by the recording. | | | By the early 1960s, Simone's music began to more directly echo the tenor of the times. |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Music Obituary: Nina Simone |
| | Nina Simone was one of the last divas of jazz and was considered one of the finest songwriters and musicians of her day. | | | The song was re-released some 30 years later, bringing her to a new generation of listeners, and it became one of the most listened to songs of the 20th Century. | | | Simone continued to release a series of successful albums, including Wild is the Wind, I Put A Spell On You and Nina Simone Sings The Blues. |
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| | Pitchfork: Nina Simone: One Woman, Twelve Songs |
| | Simone released an entire album of songs made famous by Billie Holiday, and she obviously felt a deep connection to Lady Day. | | | Simone takes a song from Dylan's most lyrically tangled period and transforms it into a model of clarity. | | | The sun means warmth, and Simone dusts off her richest velvet purr for this tune by one of her favorite songwriters. |
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| | The Nina Simone Web - Biography |
| | Nina recorded 10 albums while signed to Colpix: six studio and four "live" albums. | | | While at RCA Nina records nine albums and some of her most popular songs. | | | Recognized as a talented pianist, she was given a recording session with Bethlehem Records in 1957; in this session she records 14 tracks. |
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| | Nina Simone dies - theage.com.au |
| | While Simone was mostly known for her jazz and blues songs, she also recorded Broadway show tunes, pop songs and folk songs, which often appeared with mixed success on the same album. | | | Simone's musical range was enormous and she could switch from one genre to another in a blink. | | | Switching to RCA records in 1967, Simone had a string of hits including Ain't Got No -- I Got Life, a medley from the rock musical Hair and versions of the Bee Gees' To Love Somebody, and Jim Webb's Do What You Gotta Do. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/22/1050777237715.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Best of Nina Simone: Music |
| | Nina Simone Collection, the [a Selection of Tracks Recorded for the Colpix Label 1959-1964]; Audio CD ~ Nina Simone | | | THE BEST OF NINA SIMONE also features the hauntingly beautiful "Wild is the Wind", her epic, gospel-flavoured landmark recording of "Sinnerman", and many other tracks you will want to hear again and again. | | | basically first when i listen to nina simone i was amazed by her voice. |
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| | Nina Simone - Verve Records |
| | Nina Simone has burned her soulful, musical wonders on the psyche of jazz lovers everywhere, and has inspired love and compassion in places seemingly bereft of such trying emotions. | | | In the mid-‘60s, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, Simone composed several songs, including "Old Jim Crow" and "Mississippi Goddam" which were issued on her first album with Philips (Nina Simone in Concert). | | | Simone did just fine performing in nightclubs and making albums, most of them live recordings. |
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| | Salon Directory |
| | Simone's admirers have found their way to her from a range of places, and that diversity is reflected in her music. | | | Even with a hit record, living in New York a year after it was released she had to work as a maid for a white family to maintain her piano instruction. | | | As was the case with nearly every album that followed, "Little Girl Blue" had an array of pieces ranging from her own "Central Park Blues" to the traditional "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" to the title song written by T.B. Harms. |
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| | Nina Simone Dies At 70 - CBS News |
| | Simone later wove the turbulent times of the 1960s into her music. | | | Though she was a gifted songwriter, Simone also recorded songs from artists as diverse as Leonard Cohen and the Bee Gees and made them her own. | | | Simone enjoyed perhaps her greatest success in the 1960s and '70s, with songs such as "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and "Four Women," a song about four black woman with varying skin colors and lifestyles. |
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| | NINA SIMONE: The tone, the nuances, the implications, the silences, the dynamics, the fortissimos, the pianissimos - all have to do with sound and music and it's as close to God as I know. | | | NINA SIMONE: They wanted me to be the first black classical pianist in America for there were none. | | | Simone is the woman who gave us unforgettable versions of songs like 'I loves ya, Porgy', 'Summertime', and many others. |
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| | Amazon.com: Anthology: Music: Nina Simone |
| | Simone takes a song that we think we know or that somone else has sung what we think is the definitive version and makes it her own all over again. | | | Perhaps only Nina Simone heard the bird singing in the gilden cage, but she warbled about it with such natural, eerie, musclar talent that to hear it is to be arrested on the spot. | | | Simone recorded for Verve in the 60's, I believe. |
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| | Nina Simone |
| | Later, as a music teacher, Simone absorbed the pop music demanded by her students. | | | Simone’s pop music education came peripherally to her endeavors as a classical pianist. | | | Instrumental: Nina loved her piano and her piano playing and we are allowed to love it too, clear and unadorned on many tunes. |
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| | Arts Unlimited Arts news Nina Simone |
| | Simone's music was about love and respect - and their opposites, particularly in relation to race. | | | Until then, Simone had been singing love songs, but she took on the racial issue as the civil rights movement swelled. | | | Frank Sinatra symbolised a collision between street-sharp machismo and the aftermath of broken dreams; Ella Fitzgerald a tension between a child's exhilaration and an adult's sense of past and future; Betty Carter a narrow bridge between sensuality and irony. |
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| | mtv.com - News - Jazz Legend Nina Simone Dies At Age 70 |
| | Simone continued to chart with her interpretations from a variety of genres in the late 1960s, including a medley of "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" from the hippie musical "Hair" and a soulful version of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," which hit the British top 10 in 1969. | | | In 1961 Simone recorded the traditional song "The House of the Rising Sun," which would also appear on Bob Dylan's debut a year later and become a hit for the Animals in 1964. | | | Renowned for her signature timing, which often employed silence as a musical element, Simone's rich, multifaceted singing inspired everyone from Fiona Apple to India.Arie, who recently recorded "Come Ye" as Simone for the soundtrack to the "American Dreams" television show. |
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| | Technorati Tag: NinaSimone |
| | Nina Simone to be remembered on stage and in... | | | There are so many samples of Nina Simone songs in hip hop today that you would think people would go back and listen to the originals. | | | There are so many samples of Nina Simone sons in hip hop today that you would think people would go back and listen to the originals. |
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| | The Nina Simone Web |
| | One song, "I Loves You Porgy", became a hit and Nina became a star, performing at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and at jazz festivals with a repertoire ranging from gospel music to African music, from blues to Ellington songs, from classical music to folk songs of diverse origin. | | | All (or nearly) the albums released by Nina | | | This site is dedicated to Nina Simone, the great singer, pianist, composer, arranger, songwriter. |
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| | Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Nina Simone: A Personal Tribute |
| | Nina Simone's death is another reminder of the end of an era. | | | I bought a couple of her recordings in the mid-'80s and thereafter: Nina's Back (circa 1985) had some powerful songs on it. | | | There was a lot of magic in Nina; now it will live on through her recordings alone. |
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| | Nina Simone News |
| | Today is Nina Simone's birthday, and to commemorate the date, here's a soulful stop-motion music video for her performance of "My Baby Just Cares For Me". | | | Simone, the singing actress who has appeared on Broadway in Rent and Aida, will perform a solo concert at New York's Town Hall April 21, 2006. | | | A dance and music performance Feb. 16 at the Chicago Cultural Center The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs presents a two-act music and dance event, Tributes: Langston Hughes and Nina Simone on Thursday,... |
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| | Nina Simone, rest in peace - @forums |
| | After fading from public attention in the 70s, she enjoyed a revival in the 80s and 90s as several of her songs were became hits with a new generation of listeners. | | | A musical prodigy, she learned to play the piano at the age of four and hoped to become the first black concert pianist. | | | She was also a powerful civil rights campaigner and her 1969 song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" became an anthem for the movement to end segregation in the US. |
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| | Nina Simone Dead at 70 MetaFilter |
| | I only started listening to Nina Simone about six months ago after a colleague reccomended her, so I haven't had that long a history of listening to her, but I was still shocked and saddened to hear of her passing. | | | April 21, 2003 2:11 PM Jazz and protest singer Nina Simone is dead at age 70. | | | There's a quote in the blurb on the back of this record sleeve: "Nina Simone Walks In Musical Grandeur Where Few Others Dare Stray." - what a fine sentence. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Nina Simone Dead at 70 |
| | Everyone in the film who listens to Simone's music is touched by this overall sensation, which is the double-edged quality of Nina Simone's music. | | | Her first RCA album, "Nina Simone Sings The Blues", includes her own I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Do I Move You, a haunting version of My Man's Gone Now (again from "Porgy & Bess") and the protest song Backlash Blues, based on a poem written for her by Langston Hughes. | | | The strong emotional approach of this song and the others on her first Philips record ("Nina Simone In Concert"), would become another characteristic in her art. |
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| | CNN.com - Simone draws civil rights tributes - Apr. 22, 2003 |
| | Simone remained a top concert draw in her later years but looked frail. | | | Simone, called the "High Priestess of Soul" by fans, tackled civil rights issues through music, including "Mississippi Goddam," "Old Jim Crow" and "To Be Young, Gifted and Black. | | | At a 2001 concert at Carnegie Hall, she had to be helped to the stage and was later seen sitting backstage in a wheelchair. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: S: Si: Simone, Nina |
| | Nina Simone at Verve Records - Profile and discography with sound clips from her record label. | | | All Music Guide: Nina Simone - Biography and discography. | | | The Official Nina Simone Web Site - Jazz singer, pianist, songwriter. |
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| | Nina Simone |
| | Promotional copies of the single were smashed and returned to Simone's record label by a Carolina radio station, reflecting the danger a black performer faced in challenging ingrained prejudice. | | | An accomplished pianist as a child, Simone later studied at New York's Juilliard School Of Music but left in 1954 after struggling to make headway in the tradition bound classical music world. | | | (Westside 1999)****, Nina Simone's Finest Hour (Verve 2000)***, Gin House Blues: Nina Simone In Concert (Castle Pie 2000)***, Four Women: The Philips Recordings 4-CD box set (Verve 2003)****, The Nina Simone Story 3-CD box set (Charly 2003)***, Gold (Universal 2003)****. |
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| | Nina Simone (1933-2003) |
| | Simone's best songs had the dramatic breadth of musical theater. | | | To listen to her voice was to feel almost hijacked by its power. | | | Bethlehem Records signed her in 1957; two years later, her heartbreaking version of Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" sold over a million records. |
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| | NME.COM - News - NINA SIMONE DEAD |
| | Nina Simone - The Greatest Hits (Music CD) £5.99 from Dvd.co.uk | | | One of the greatest jazz and soul singers of all time, NINA SIMONE, has died. | | | Nina Simone - Gold (Music CD) £8.49 from Dvd.co.uk |
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| | Dave Marsh: Nina Simone: Freedom Singer |
| | Nina Simone hadn't made an important record or written a well-known song since the early '70s, so in a sense her absence will not be widely felt. | | | If you hear her sing "I Put a Spell On You," "I Loves You Porgy" or "To Love Somebody," you know she could-she still stands as the greatest interpretive singer of the '60s, pouncing on songs by the likes of Dylan, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison and Randy Newman with cat-like grace and singularly personal insight. | | | This is what Aretha Franklin and everyone else found in songs like "To Be Young Gifted and Black" and it's what let Simone set "Mississippi Goddamn," otherwise a "protest" song, to a jaunty cabaret arrangement and fill it with jokes that turn out to be time-bombs. |
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| | Her first recording I recall was Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy,” and I still wonder what it would be like to be loved with such power and devotion. | | | Now, go out and get the CD, “The Best of Nina Simone.” Open up a bottle of French wine, pour a little in a nice crystal glass and listen to music from a goddess. | | | I actually prayed that the song would not end. |
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| | Ink 19 :: Nina Simone |
| | From her beginnings as a classical pianist to New York jazz club sensation and her emergence as a vocal member of the civil rights movement, Simone has consistently set the standard for musical excellence. | | | A section of the folks seated in front began singing a raggedy version of "Young, Gifted and Black," and she rescued them, hammering out her song that became a defacto anthem in the 1960s. | | | Her own "Mississippi Goddamn" got the crowd worked up and allowed her great band to shine. |
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| | Salon Entertainment Sharps & Flats |
| | These are my favorite Nina Simone songs, the heart of "Sugar in My Bowl" (those who prefer Simone's earlier, cafe-society style should get her '96 collection "Anthology: The Colpix Years" on Rhino). | | | In the late '60s, her intensity still focused, she went from cabaret-style soul-jazz chanteuse to quasi-pop star, coming up with tremendous, definitive covers of songs by rockers and folk-rockers like Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Jimmy Webb, Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen and (of all people) the Bee Gees. | | | ("Sugar" is sprinkled with Simone's under-recognized piano brilliance, including a funky, previously unreleased jazz jam, "Jelly Roll," the alternately wonderful/awful "Another Spring" and "Here Comes the Sun," where Simone wastes some wonderful, spare playing on a treacly arrangement of the George Harrison tune.) |
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| | Her album Baltimore, recorded in Brussels in 1978 is also on CD, but I can't bear to part with the fold-out LP sleeve with an incredibly beautiful portrait of Nina Simone looking peaceful and relaxed. | | | Her daughter Simone appears on Broadway in the musical Aida. | | | As potent as these photographs were, they in no way prepared me for the music of Nina Simone. |
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| | Nina Simone lyrics |
| | Welcome to our growing collection of Nina Simone lyrics, all sorted by album. | | | The title "Nina's Back" was a great concept. | | | Though three of these 13 songs are done in French, the predominant feel o... |
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| | Nina Simone @ Streamwaves |
| | I Shall Be Released (The Essential Nina Simone) | | | Ooh Child (The Essential Nina Simone - Vol. | | | I Shall Be Released (The Very Best Of Nina Simone - Disc 2) |
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| | Feminist Daily News 4/22/2003: Jazz Great, Civil Rights Hero Nina Simone Dies |
| | An all-star tribute to Nina Simone, produced by the Black Rock Coalition and planned before her death, will take place in June at Symphony Space in New York. | | | "That's what separated Nina from the other singers," said George Wein, a friend and jazz concert promoter, according to the Associated Press. | | | Nina Simone, a singer, composer, and pianist who made racism a central theme in her work, died yesterday at age 70 at her home in France. |
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| | The Nina Simone Web - The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music |
| | SIMONE, Nina (b Eunice Waymon, 21 Feb. '33, Tryon, N.C.) Cabaret singer, songwriter, pianist; an interpreter of unique emotional power with a world-wide audience. | | | Willard Robinson song "Don't Smoke In Bed" (a hit by Peggy Lee '48) and her own powerful "Mississippi Goddam" and "Central Park Blues". | | | The Nina Simone Web - The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music |
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| | USATODAY.com - Singing legend Nina Simone dies |
| | Nina Simone was called the "High Priestess of Soul," a term applying not so much to her musical style — that was far too diverse to be categorized — but to the deep recesses from which her artistry sprang. | | | Simone was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, N.C., the sixth of seven children in a poor family. | | | But despite her success, Simone eventually became fed up with the music industry and the USA, and in 1974 she left the country for good. |
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| | Nina Simone - Live - Archive Music Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | Nina Simone - Live - Archive Music Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk | | | Home > Archive > Archive Music > Nina Simone - Live | | | Nina Simone At The Town Hall (Live) - Nina Simone Products |
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| | In recent times, Simone has recorded and performed primarily in Europe, but she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the United States with her 1993 recording "A Single Woman". | | | She is best known for her songs about the need for racial justice recorded during the height of the civil rights movement. | | | By age seven she was playing organ for her church and singing in the church choir. |
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| | BBC - Music / Profiles - Nina Simone |
| | Nina studied classical piano at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. | | | Nina can be judged to be a protest singer, a jazz chanteuse, a blues performer and a night club artiste. | | | Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, she adopted her stage name when she started singing in Atlantic City bars. |
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| | Search Results for "nina simone" - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Impressive resource on this versatile performer (pianist-singer-songwriter) whose few original compositions deal mainly with racism and whose wide-ranging repertoire encompasses jazz, soul, blues, folk, gospel, and pop songs. | | | Expand your search on "nina simone" with these databases: |
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| | Jazz/Soul Legend Nina Simone Dies |
| | With a high-intensity voice that was among the most distinctive in American music, Simone straddled the boundaries between pop, RandB, blues, folk, and jazz. | | | Simone, who recorded for Mercury, Verve, Philips, and RCA Victor, left the U.S. in the '70s and lived nomadically in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. | | | The cause of death was not announced, but she had battled cancer. |
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| | Nina Simone Tickets at StubHub! |
| | Buy great Nina Simone Tickets and experience the thrill of a live concert. | | | And music fans, if you have extra Nina Simone Tickets you can't use, sell them to other fans by listing your tickets for sale FREE at StubHub. | | | Nina Simone Tickets are currently not available on StubHub. |
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| | L'hommage: Nina Simone Press & Media Appearances |
| | This is a must-read for any Nina Simone fan or those interested in the life of this complicated musical genius! | | | (click on a logo to hear their Nina broadcast in RealPlayer format) | | | Click below to be taken to the David Nathan site ordering page: |
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| | Nina Simone Albums |
| | Albums recorded by Nina Simone, including release dates and current CD availability. | | | Recorded live at The Newport Jazz Festival on 30 June 1960. | | | You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To Flo Me La Nina's Blues (instrumental) |
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| | L'hommage: Nina Simone Home |
| | Nina Simone deserves to be kept high in public esteem for her powerful music and passionate work for civil rights. | | | Nina was dubbed the 'High Priestess of Soul' but she did not prefer this title as she did not want to be labeled as a strictly or mainly "soul" artist. | | | She may have left this world somewhat bitter - and rightfully so - but perhaps we can fight to keep her memory as timeless as her music. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone at Epinions.com |
| | In the book, Nina shows great appreciation and gives much discussion of the way in which her professional career and her dealings with people in the music industry changed after she met and married her second husband, Andy Stroud, who became her manager. | | | Throughout all, with concern over her image, her name, the use of her work, and the business of collecting royalties, Nina Simone remained grounded and deeply entrenched in her social, her spiritual, and political being. | | | As the book progresses, she discusses her life as it took her from North Carolina to New York (where she studied at Juliard), to Philadelphia, where racism kept her out of the Curtis Music School there, and eventually to Atlantic City where she was discovered as a cabaret pianist and singer at the Midtown Bar. |
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