The art of Nina Simone is the art of transformation. This becomes abundantly clear on “You’ve Got To Learn,” a previously unreleased concert recording from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. Ken ...

Nina Simone’s North Carolina home has been designated by the National Trust as a National Treasure. There are efforts to raise money to preserve the home and transform it into something functional ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Mount Olivet Baptist Church hosted a concert celebrating the music of Nina Simone. Simone was known for her civil rights activism and was induced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

Few singers captured the many moods and musical styles of the 1960s more vividly than did Nina Simone, a walking definition of what would later be called “multiculti.” Simone (1933-2003) grew up ...

Simone is the latest artist honored in Thornton’s “Beyond Category” series that Thornton Dean Jason King described as “an ...

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