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Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, Nina Simone (1933-2003) began her musical life playing classical piano. A child prodigy, she wanted a career on the concert stage, but when the Curtis Institute of Music rejected her, the devastating disappointment compelled her to change direction. She turned to popular music and jazz but never abandoned her classical roots or her intense ambition. By the age of twenty six, Simone had sung at New York...
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A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the High Priestess of Soul. This includes a bonus CD of her works which features the classics I Loves You Porgy; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; I Put a Spell on You; and many more.
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Singer-songwriter and civil rights activist, Nina Simone appeared to have it all. Her struggle to balance music, family and politics ended up leaving her alone and in terrible debt. That is, until she met Clifton Henderson, who helped the high priestess of soul rediscover meaning in her life and her music.
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"This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young Black and poor woman living in an American marked by segregation. This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement. This is the story of a long career, that of a pianist and singer as talented as determined. This is the story of Nina Simone, a unique artist, role model, and inspiration for generations to come. Genius pianist, fabulous singer and committed...
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"Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. From music journalist and former Spin and Vibe editor-in-chief Alan Light comes a biography of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocative,...
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Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers--Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier--changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics.
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An in-depth biography of the complicated but extremely talented song stylist and her successes as a performer. From Eunice Waymon, an Juilliard-trained concert pianist, she reinvented herself as a singer and put her personal stamp on songs from the pop, folk, and jazz genres, and on her own compositions. Also covers her unwillingness to compromise in her personal and her artistic life.
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An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone imagines the noted jazz singer describing her early years, her love of music, and her encounters with racism and the civil rights movement to her daughter, Lisa.
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"Fantasies of Nina Simone mines the tension between our collective and individual fantasies of Nina Simone (1933-2003) the performer, Civil Rights activist, and icon, and Nina Simone's desires for herself as an ordinary person. Simone has long embodied the contradictions that Black womanhood has been made to bear in our culture: beauty and dignity, abjection and power, expansive personal talent limited by narrow opportunities for advancement, while...
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