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Nina Simone

Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon and studied piano at Juilliard after being denied admission to the Curtis Institute of Music. She started playing...

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Nina Simone, a voice that refused to be boxed in.

A pianist and singer whose work blended jazz, blues, and protest, from 'Little Girl Blue' to 'Mississippi Goddam'.

For her range, listen to 'Feeling Good' and then 'Mississippi Goddam'. That's the span of her catalog in two tracks.

She started as Eunice Waymon, a classical piano student turned barroom performer. That mix of training and grit let her turn 'Feeling Good' into an anthem and write 'Mississippi Goddam' as a raw response to the civil rights movement. Her version of 'I Put a Spell on You' shows how she could own a song completely.

Her debut 'Little Girl Blue' came out in the 1950s after she took the stage name Nina Simone. Over more than forty albums, she kept recording through personal struggles, moving from jazz standards to pointed protest songs without ever fitting one genre.

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Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon and studied piano at Juilliard after being denied admission to the Curtis Institute of Music. She started playing in bars to support herself, eventually taking the stage name Nina Simone. Her debut album 'Little Girl Blue' came out in the 1950s and included her version of 'Feeling Good,' which became one of her most recognizable songs.

Her music drew from jazz, blues, classical, and folk, but she also wrote and performed material that addressed racial injustice directly. 'Mississippi Goddam' was a pointed response to civil rights struggles, and songs like 'I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free' and 'Sinnerman' carried similar weight. She recorded 'I Put a Spell on You' and 'Ain't Got No / I Got Life' during this period too.

Simone released more than forty albums over her career while dealing with bipolar disorder and substance abuse. She kept performing and recording despite these personal challenges, leaving behind a body of work that refuses to sit neatly in any single category.

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