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Nina Simone
Nina Simone was an American composer, concert pianist, singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Simone's bearing and stage presence earned her the title the High Priestess of Soul. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. Her piano playing was strongly influenced by baroque and classical music, especially Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied ex…
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Born 21 February 1933 · Died 21 April 2003 · Q174957
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2026· 32 entries
Published video “I Put A Spell On You (Austin Millz Remix)”.
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Published video “Baltimore (Live At Vine St. Bar & Grill/1987/ Supershy Remix / Extended Version)”.
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Published video “Take Care Of Business (Solomun Mix / Extended Version)”.
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Published video “Four Women (DESIREE Remix / Extended Version)”.
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Published video “See-Line Woman (Mochakk Mix)”.
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Published video “That's All I Ask (HAAi Remix / Extended Edit)”.
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Published video “Tell Me More And More And Then Some (dublon Remix / Extended Edit)”.
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Published video “Work Song (Antdot Remix / Extended Edit)”.
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The New York Times: For New Violin Caprices, He Turned to Nina Simone and Kendrick Lamar
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Singersroom.com: 10 Best Nina Simone Songs of All Time
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San Diego Union-Tribune: SummerFest debut by saxophonist and composer Steven Banks will salute Nina Simone - San Diego Union-Tribune
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uDiscoverMusic: Antdot Releases Nina Simone ‘Work Song’ Remix
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Published video “Work Song (Antdot Remix)”.
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Published video “Work Song”.
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Publishers Weekly: Freedom’s Gate: Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone Live at the New York Nightclub That Shaped the Civil Rights Movement by Soyica Diggs Colbert
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Diario La Capital de Mar del Plata: Mar del Plata y Melbourne unidas en una canción de hip hop con la voz de Nina Simone
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Washington and Lee University: Meet a Colleague: Nina-Simone Edwards
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Yahoo: Nina Simone's Original 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' Preceded The Animals' Hit
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Published video “"Nobody knows how deep my love for you really goes..." - #ninasimone #thatsalliask - 🎨 by Earl Gold”.
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Published video “36 years ago today - on July 22nd, 1990 - #ninasimone performed in Cologne”.
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Published video “"My eyes can only look at you..." - #ninasimone #icantseenobody #beegees - 🎥 by papercutmusicians”.
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Published video “36 years ago today - on July 13th, 1990 - #ninasimone performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival”.
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Published video “39 years ago today - on July 10th, 1987 - #ninasimone performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival”.
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Published video ““Oh sinnerman, where you gonna run to…” - #ninasimone #sinnerman - 🎨 by Objectif Lune”.
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Published video “50 years ago today — on July 3rd, 1976 — #ninasimone performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival”.
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WSHU news: At Nina Simone's childhood home, in search of 'How It Would Feel to Be Free'
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Published video “Nina Simone discusses her refusal to be considered as only a “jazz” artist”.
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Published video “58 years ago today #ninasimone performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival - 📷 by Jan Persson”.
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Published video “HAAi reimagines Nina Simone's "That's All I Ask." Out now via Verve Records. #ninasimone”.
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The Guardian: Behold! Nina Simone’s chewing gum! Inside the show celebrating extreme pop fandom
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The Guardian: ‘This is where it all started’: Nina Simone’s childhood home gets long-awaited rehabilitation
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2025· 6 entries
Essence: Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Is Restored Amid Efforts To Erase Black History
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The Grio: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund restores Nina Simone’s childhood home in North Carolina
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MadameNoire: Nina Simone: 10 Powerful Quotes To Live By
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The Guardian: Mississippi Goddamn: A Celebration of Nina Simone review – singers capture star’s emotional spirit
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BroadwayWorld: Review: NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN at Geva Theatre
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BroadwayWorld: Nina Simone: Four Women at Geva Theatre
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2024· 3 entries
American Songwriter: Essential Nina Simone: 4 of the Crooner’s Best Songs of All Time
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The Guardian: What Songs May Do... review – Nina Simone puts a spell on dance duet
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The Guardian: From Nina Simone and Bob Marley to Goldie and Salt-N-Pepa: a who’s who of Black popular music – in pictures
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2023· 5 entries
The Guardian: Lisa Simone on loving and fearing her mother Nina: ‘On my 16th, she cursed the day I was born’
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The Guardian: Nina Simone is first black person to be Desert Island Discs’ most selected artist of year
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The Guardian: Nina Simone’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
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The Guardian: Ballet Black: Pioneers review – an uplifting tribute to Nina Simone
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Rolling Stone ranked Simone at No
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2019· 2 entries
"Mississippi Goddam" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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An event called Mississippi Goddamn was performed by The Metropole Orkest at Royal Albert Hall led by Jules Buckley
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2018· 3 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2018).
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Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by fellow R&B artist Mary J
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Received a nomination for Best Rap Song as a songwriter for Jay-Z's "The Story of O
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2016· 4 entries
For a 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
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At the Unity Theatre, Liverpool—a "deeply personal and often searing show inspired by the singer and activist Nina Simone"—and which in July 2017 ran at the Young Vic, before being scheduled to move to Edinburgh's Traver
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Simone posthumously received a nomination for Best Music Film for the Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone
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Nina Simone: Four Women, by Christina Ham
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2015· 2 entries
Two documentary features about Simone's life and music were released
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The Amazing Nina Simone is an independent film written and directed by Jeff L
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2010· 1 entry
A statue in her honor was erected on Trade Street in her native Tryon, North Carolina
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2006· 1 entry
It returned to the UK Top 30 in a remixed version by Groovefinder
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2005· 1 entry
The city of Nijmegen, the De Vereeniging concert hall, and more than 50 artists (among whom were Frank Boeijen, Rood Adeo, and Fay Claassen) honored Simone with the tribute concert Greetings from Nijmegen
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2003· 3 entries
Died 2003-04-21.
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“We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.”
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Two days after the institute awarded her an honorary degree
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2002· 1 entry
The city of Nijmegen, Netherlands, named a street after her, as "Nina Simone Street": she had lived in Nijmegen between 1988 and 1990
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2000· 1 entry
For her interpretation of "I Loves You, Porgy"
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1999· 4 entries
Released album “The Essential Nina Simone”.
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Released album “Love Me or Leave Me”.
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Simone was given a lifetime achievement award by the Irish Music Hall of Fame, presented by Sinead O'Connor
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Released album “Nina Simone & Piano! / Silk & Soul”.
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1998· 10 entries
Released album “The Masters: 20 Classic Tracks”.
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Released album “Ultimate Divas”.
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Released album “Forbidden Fruit / Nina Simone at Newport”.
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Released album “Here Comes the Sun & Other Great Hits”.
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Released album “The Amazing Nina Simone / Nina Simone at Town Hall”.
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Released album “Folksy Nina / Nina With Strings”.
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Released album “I Got Life and Many Others”.
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Released album “Jazz Masters: 100 ans de jazz”.
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Released album “Sugar in My Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972”.
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Released album “To Love Somebody / Here Comes the Sun”.
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “Ultimate Nina Simone”.
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Released album “The Gold Collection: Classic Performances”.
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Released album “Blue for You: The Very Best Of”.
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Released album “Saga of the Good Life and Hard Times”.
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “Anthology: The Colpix Years”.
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Released album “Verve Jazz Masters 58: Nina Simone Sings Nina”.
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Released album “Released”.
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Released album “The Wonderful Music Of...”.
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1995· 3 entries
Released album “Compact Jazz: Nina Simone”.
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Released album “After Hours”.
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While living in France, she shot and wounded her neighbor's son with an air gun after his laughter disturbed her concentration on practicing piano, and she perceived his response to her complaints as racial insults
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1994· 6 entries
Released album “The Tomato Collection”.
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Released album “Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone”.
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Released album “Verve Jazz Masters 17”.
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Released album “The Essential Nina Simone, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Diamond Star Collection”.
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Released album “Legends”.
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1993· 8 entries
Released album “A Single Woman”.
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Released album “Private Collection”.
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Released album “Essential”.
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Simone settled near Aix-en-Provence in southern France (Bouches-du-Rhône)
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Released album “28 Great Songs”.
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Released album “Central Park Blues”.
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Released album “The Jazz Essentials”.
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Released album “The Great Nina Simone”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “Porgy”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Nina Simone”.
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Released album “The Best of “The Colpix Years””.
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1991· 5 entries
Released album “The Blues”.
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Released album “Nina Simone: The ★ Collection”.
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Nina Simone exchanged Nijmegen for Amsterdam, where she lived for two years with friends and Hammond
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Simone published her autobiography, I Put a Spell on You (taking the title from her famous 1965 album), and she continued to perform and attract audiences until her death
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Released album “Moon of Alabama”.
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1990· 5 entries
Released album “Wild Is the Wind / High Priestess of Soul”.
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Released album “Pastel Blues / Let It All Out”.
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Released album “In Concert / I Put a Spell on You”.
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Released album “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me”.
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1990.
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “The 60's, Volume 1: Ne me quitte pas”.
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Released album “My Way”.
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Released album “The Nina Simone Story”.
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Released album “Mood Indigo”.
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1988· 4 entries
Released album “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”.
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Released album “I Put a Spell on You”.
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Released album “16 Top Tracks”.
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Released album “The Nina Simone Collection: Her Golden Greats”.
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1987· 5 entries
Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1987.
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Simone scored a major European hit with the song "My Baby Just Cares for Me"
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Released album “My Baby Just Cares for Me”.
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After it was featured in a 1986 Chanel No
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Released album “Sugar in My Bowl”.
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1985· 2 entries
Simone fired a gun at a record company executive, whom she accused of stealing royalties
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Released album “Nina’s Back”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Fodder on My Wings”.
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1981.
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Baltimore”.
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1976· 3 entries
Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1976.
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Released album “Disque d’or”.
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Released album “Songs of the Poets: Dylan, Harrison & Simone”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “A arte de Nina Simone”.
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1974· 1 entry
And did not make another record until 1978, when she was persuaded to go into the recording studio by CTI Records owner Creed Taylor
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Gospel According to Nina Simone”.
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1971· 4 entries
Released album “Here Comes the Sun”.
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Released album “Nina Simone”.
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For her Black Gold album, when she again lost to Franklin for "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)"
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Released album “Ne me quitte pas”.
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Gifted & Black”.
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"but few who have met her music or glimpsed her soul react with moderation
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1969· 4 entries
Performed at the Harlem Cultural Festival in Harlem's Mount Morris Park
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Released album “The Best of Nina Simone”.
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Released album “Nina Simone and Piano!”.
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Released album “To Love Somebody”.
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1968· 3 entries
Received her first nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for the track "(You'll) Go to Hell" from her thirteenth album Silk & Soul (1967)
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1968.
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It was "Ain't Got No, I Got Life", a medley from the musical Hair from the album 'Nuff Said
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1967· 5 entries
Released album “High Priestess of Soul”.
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Released album “Silk & Soul”.
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But Simone had recorded the song in 1961 and it was featured on Nina at the Village Gate (1962)
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Released album “Nina Simone Sings the Blues”.
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Simone moved from Philips to RCA Victor
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “Wild Is the Wind”.
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Released album “Nina Simone With Strings”.
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1965· 2 entries
Released album “Pastel Blues”.
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Released album “Let It All Out”.
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1964· 3 entries
Released album “Broadway Blues Ballads”.
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Released album “Starring Nina Simone with George Wallington”.
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Simone changed record distributors from Colpix, an American company, to the Dutch Philips Records, which meant a change in the content of her recordings
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Nina’s Choice”.
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1962· 1 entry
Released album “Nina Simone Sings Ellington”.
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “Forbidden Fruit”.
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1959· 3 entries
Released album “The Amazing Nina Simone”.
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With "I Loves You, Porgy", which peaked inside the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart
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Released album “Nina Simone and Her Friends: An Intimate Variety of Vocal Charm”.
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1958· 4 entries
Released album “Little Girl Blue”.
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Went on to record more than 40 albums up to 1974
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Befriended and married Don Ross, a beatnik who worked as a fairground barker, but quickly regretted their marriage
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The song was used in a commercial for Chanel No
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1954· 1 entry
Adopted the stage name "Nina Simone"
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1933· 2 entries
In a 650-square-foot, three-room clapboard house in Tryon, North Carolina; the sixth of eight children in a respected family
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Born 1933-02-21.
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