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Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (IPA: ninɐ sʌmɞnɑ) (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was a fifteen-time Grammy Award-nominated american singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist.
Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician; She personally preferred the term “black classical music”. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classical basis, such as jazz, soul, folk, rnb, gospel, and pop music. Her vocal style (with an alto vocal range) is characterized by intense passion, breathiness, and tremolo. Sometimes known as the High Priestess of Soul, she paid great attention to the musical expression of emotions. Within one album or concert she could fluctuate between exuberant happiness or tragic melancholy. These fluctuations also characterized her own personality and personal life, worsened by a bipolar disorder with which she was diagnosed in the mid-sixties, but was kept secret until 2004.
Simone recorded over 40 live and studio albums, the biggest body of her work being released between 1958 (when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue) and 1974.
Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician; She personally preferred the term “black classical music”. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classical basis, such as jazz, soul, folk, rnb, gospel, and pop music. Her vocal style (with an alto vocal range) is characterized by intense passion, breathiness, and tremolo. Sometimes known as the High Priestess of Soul, she paid great attention to the musical expression of emotions. Within one album or concert she could fluctuate between exuberant happiness or tragic melancholy. These fluctuations also characterized her own personality and personal life, worsened by a bipolar disorder with which she was diagnosed in the mid-sixties, but was kept secret until 2004.
Simone recorded over 40 live and studio albums, the biggest body of her work being released between 1958 (when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue) and 1974.
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Feeling Good
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I Put a Spell on You
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Sinnerman
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Here Comes the Sun
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I Loves You Porgy
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I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
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Mood Indigo
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
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To Love Somebody
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Work Song
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Don't Smoke in Bed
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meadownymph wrote:
I would turn gay for Nina!
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missceliesblues wrote:
Nina Simone and Maria Bethânia singing Pronta p'rá Cantar/Ready to Sing... just divine, divine, divine.
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icurok wrote:
"hey girl, sit down...sit down!" (Nina Simone Live at Montreux 1976)
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ale_plasticine wrote:
demais...
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Parisblues wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/Nina+Simone/Nina+Sings+Duke+Ellington-At+C
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nennee_ wrote:
They all have gone to grave
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black_calx wrote:
where are all the women in the world like this? where have they all gone?
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Juinchi wrote:
<3 Always
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creepingdeathv2 wrote:
all hail the high priestess
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missceliesblues wrote:
sovereign
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somevelvetsong wrote:
she put a spell on me
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kolory_raju wrote:
capital!
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foolonahill235 wrote:
I would totally do her voice.
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abyssoftimes wrote:
Nina Simone is fierce.
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TSAPROUNISX wrote:
http://tsaprounisx.tk
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PostPunk-Mag wrote:
Mississippi Goddam !!!
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blalo wrote:
i never stop love you...
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forair wrote:
mmmm nina!!
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dognewtricks wrote:
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood...
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jenstark wrote:
Having read the new Nina biography by the French bloke, I am now reading the one written by Nina's fan club people. Really getting into it.
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To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story Deluxe Box Set
24 Aug 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/ninasimone
In the grand hierarchy of the greatest African-American female vocalists of the 20th century – Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, and ...
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