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 ...

For a certain segment out there, I imagine that Jay-Z’s song “The Story of O.J.” introduced them to Nina Simone (born Eunice Waymon). The song samples her famous 1966 song “Four Women,” released on ...

Nina Simone: vocals, piano; Eric Gale, Everett Barksdale, Rudy Stevenson, Al Schackman, Stuart Scharf, Ernest Calabria, Henry Young, Carl Lynch, Emile Latimer, Tom ...

The High Priestess of Soul shook the world with her powerful music. In the depths of the Civil Rights struggle, Nina Simone used song as a means of expressing the nation’s anguish—and resilience. This ...

…How to be young, gifted and black? Oh, how I long to know the truth There are times when I look back And I am haunted by my youth…” This are opening lines from the 3rd verse of her popular Civil ...