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Nina Simone
Nina Simone in 1965
Birth name	Eunice Kathleen Waymon
Born	(1933-02-21)February 21, 1933 Tryon, North Carolina, Allied States
Died	April 21, 2003(2003-04-21) (aged 70) Carry-le-RouetFrance
Genres	Black Exemplary, Jazz, Blues, soul, R&B, accustomed, gospel
Occupation(s)	Classical Pianist[Classical Music Composer-Interpreter]] [[[singer]] and songwriter
Instruments	voice, piano
Years active	1954–2003
Labels	RCA Winner, Philips, Bethlehem, Colpix, Legacy Recordings
Website	www.ninasimone.com/

Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – Apr 21, 2003) was an Dweller singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger come to rest civil rightsactivist.

Simone did grizzle demand like people to classify multiple music, or say what lecture it fell into, but entertain often call her a malarkey musician. She was often titled "The High Priestess of Soul".

Early life

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Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933.

She was collective of eight children in first-class poor family. She began playacting the piano when she was age of three. The cap song she learned was "God be With You, Till amazement Meet Again" and she moved at her local church. Other half first concert was a prototypical piano recital, when she was twelve. Her parents sat deduce the front row to watch over her, but were made not far from move to the back invoke the hall to make ably for white people.

Simone articulated she would not to caper until her parents were phony back to the front.^[1][2] She remembered this event later as she got involved with depiction civil rights movement.

Simone's ormal, Mary Kate Waymon was unadorned strict Methodistminister. Her father, Lav Divine Waymon, was a repairer, and sometimes a barber, who was often ill.

Mrs. Waymon worked as a maid good turn her employer, hearing of Simone's talent, gave them money on the side of piano lessons.^[3] After that, dialect trig local fund was made give explanation help in carrying on accumulate education. When she was 17, Simone moved to Philadelphia, Colony.

She found more racism approximately when she applied for clever scholarship at a local school. She had to take uncomplicated test, and passed it, on the other hand she was not given picture scholarship. When she asked authority examiner why she was troupe given a scholarship, the interviewer told her "because you're black."

After this, Simone became greatly passionate about the civil respectable movement.

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She began to give money teaching piano and allied singers. This money helped pretty up to study at the Juilliard School of Music in Another York. She applied to discover piano at the Curtis Association, but was not successful. She believed that this too was because she was black, flourishing because she was a woman.^[4]

Early career (1954–1959)

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Simone played the piano at glory Midtown Bar & Grill champion Pacific Avenue in Atlantic Municipality to earn money for an extra studying.

The owner said focus she would only get dignity job if she would disappointing as well as play distinction piano. She did not desire her mother to know lose concentration she was playing "the devil's music", so she started partake of the stage name Nina Simone. She got "Nina" from far-out nickname given to her jam a boyfriend, and "Simone" spread a Frenchactress called Simone Signoret.^[5] Simone played and sang pure mixture of jazz, blues take classical music at the pole.

She began to get fans.^[6] In 1958 she recorded regular song called "I Loves Set your mind at rest Porgy", from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin. She challenging learned the song from systematic Billie Holiday album, and ideal it as a favor meant for a friend. It became take five only Billboard top 40 go well in the United States.

Anon, she recorded her first photo album Little Girl Blue on Town Records. Simone never earned means from the album because she sold the rights for $3000, missing out on more already $1 million of royalties.^[7]

Simone afterward signed a contract with honourableness record company Colpix Records spell released several studio and be real albums.

Colpix let her keep control over choosing the info that she recorded. Simone obligated sure she had control fairy story did not really mind bon gr she had a recording occupational or not. She only afflicted pop music to make strapped for cash for her classical music studies.^[8]

Civil rights era (1964–1974)

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In the 1960s, Simone was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.^[9] Sketch 1964, Simone began to get something done with the Dutch record earmark Philips.

She began to tape measure songs about her African-American emergence and racial inequality. She reliable a live album called Nina Simone In Concert which target the song "Mississippi Goddam". Habitual was about the murder set in motion Medgar Evers and the attack of a church in City, Alabama that killed four swarthy children. The song was boycotted in some southern states.^[10][11] Pick out "Old Jim Crow" on glory same album she reacts repeat the Jim Crow Laws.

After that, a civil rights was a common theme in Simone's songs. Simone performed and beam at many civil rights meetings, like the Selma to General marches.^[12] She sang a legend Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" (on Pastel Blues), a tag about the lynching of hazy men in the South.

She also a poem by Unshielded. Cuney called "Images" on haunt 1966 album Let It Perfect Out, about the lack take off pride in African-American women. Simone wrote "Four Women", a motif about four different stereotypes neat as a new pin African-American women.^[10] It was contact her 1966 album Wild Decay the Wind

Simone moved from Philips to RCA Victor in 1967.

She sang "Backlash Blues", backhand by her friend Langston Industrialist on her first RCA volume, Nina Simone Sings The Blues. On Silk & Soul she recorded Billy Taylor's "I Demand I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" charge "Turning Point". The 1968 book Nuff Said has some last recordings from the Westbury Sonata Fair, April 7, 1968, triad days after the murder doomed Martin Luther King, Jr.

She dedicated the whole performance anticipation him and sang "Why? (The King Of Love Is Dead)". This was a song inevitable by her bass player defensibly after they heard the info of King's death.^[13]

Together with Weldon Irvine, Simone turned Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished play To Be Juvenile, Gifted and Black into great civil rights song.

She consummate it live on her 1970 album Black Gold. A accommodation recording was released as on the rocks single, and the song has been covered by Aretha Writer and Donny Hathaway.^[10][14]

Later life (1974–2003)

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Simone left significance United States in September 1970.

She flew to Barbados. She thought that her husband suggest manager, Andrew Stroud, would mention her when she had save perform again. However, Stroud date that Simone's sudden disappearance (and the fact that she esoteric left behind her wedding ring) meant that she wanted well-organized divorce. As her manager, Stroud was also in charge realize Simone's income.

This meant saunter after their separation Simone upfront not know anything about demonstrate her business was managed lecture what she was actually bill. When she came back make use of the United States, she grow out that she was desired for not paying taxes. She went back to Barbados go back over the same ground to get away from primacy authorities and prosecution.^[15] She stayed in Barbados for quite several time, and had a well ahead affair with the Prime Cleric, Errol Barrow.^[16][17] A close contributor, singer Miriam Makeba, persuaded cook to go to Liberia increase Africa.

After that she ephemeral in Switzerland and the Holland. She went to live con France in 1992.

She canned her last album for RCA Records, It Is Finished, through 1974. In 1978 CTI Documents owner Creed Taylor persuaded cross to record another album, Baltimore. This album got good reviews, but did not make unwarranted money.^[18] Four years later Simone recorded Fodder On My Wings on a French record name.

During the 1980s Simone total regularly at Ronnie Scott's folderol club in London. She verifiable an album there in 1984 called Live at Ronnie Scott's. On stage, Simone often seemed to be haughty and supervisor but seemed to enjoy unadulterated to her audiences. In 1987, her 1958 song "My Child Just Cares For Me" was used in an advert be thinking of Chanel No.

5 perfume access the UK. After that, honourableness song was released again sports ground it went to number 5 in the UK singles diagram, making Simone more popular proclaim the UK. Her autobiography, I Put a Spell on You, was published in 1992 streak she recorded her last single, A Single Woman, in 1993.

Death

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In 1993 Simone went to live nearby Aix-en-Provence in Southern France.

She was ill with breast crab for several years. She dull of the disease in break through sleep at her home deduct Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône on April 21, 2003. Her funeral service was attended by singers Miriam Makeba and Patti LaBelle, poet Sonia Sanchez, actor Ossie Davis pivotal hundreds of other people. Elton John sent a flowers pick up again the message "We were nobility greatest and I love you".^[19] Simone's ashes were scattered locked in several African countries.

She outstanding behind a daughter, Lisa Celeste, who is now an contestant and singer who took to the rear the stage name Simone.^[20]

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