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Simone 1933-2003

Simone in 1969
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Nina Simone: 'Are you ready to burn buildings?'
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Nina Simone (born Eunice Waymon) 1933-2003
singer
whose distinctively
emotional style
blended elements
of jazz,
gospel, blues,
European art song
and other
influences
(...)
Ms. Simone
had only
one Top
20 hit
in her long career
— her very first single,
"I
Loves You, Porgy,"
released in 1959 —
but her following
was large
and loyal
and her impact
deep and lasting.
Aretha Franklin,
Roberta
Flack
and Laura Nyro
were among
the singers
who
were
influenced by her.
(...)
Ms. Simone
was as famous
for
her social
consciousness
as she was
for her music.
In the 1960's
no musical
performer
was more closely
identified with
the
civil rights movement.
Though
she was best known
as an interpreter
of other
people's music,
she eloquently expressed
her
feelings about racism
and black pride
in those years
in a number
of memorable
songs
she wrote herself.
"Mississippi Goddam"
was an
angry response
to the killing
of the civil
rights advocate
Medgar Evers.
"Young, Gifted and Black,"
written with
the keyboardist
Weldon Irvine Jr.,
became something
of an
anthem,
recorded by
Aretha Franklin
and many others.
"Four Women"
painted a
subtle
but stinging picture
of the suffering
and the
strength
of African-American
women.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/obituaries/22SIMO.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/nina-simone
https://www.npr.org/artists/15396720/nina-simone
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/
arts/nina-simone-70-soulful-diva-and-voice-of-civil-rights-dies.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/08/
683021559/nina-simone-to-be-young-gifted-and-black-american-anthem
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/19/
nina-simone-home-national-treasure-north-carolina-recognition-legacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/
arts/television/hal-tulchin-90-dies-documented-a-little-seen-black-woodstock.html
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movies/nina-review-zoe-saldana-nina-simone.html
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469298260/saldana-as-simone-resurfaces-a-debate-beyond-black-and-white
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416805770/new-documentary-finds-nina-simone-in-between-the-black-and-white-keys
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416824244/the-high-priestess-of-soul-nina-simone-in-five-songs
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/24/
416805770/new-documentary-finds-nina-simone-in-between-the-black-and-white-keys
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/22/
nina-simone-documentary-what-happened-miss-simone
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movies/nina-simones-time-is-now-again.html
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2015/apr/30/
netflix-nina-simone-documentary-trailer-what-happened-miss-simone
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/
arts/nina-simone-70-soulful-diva-and-voice-of-civil-rights-dies.html
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