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	Nina Simone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon at 30 East Livingston Street in Tryon, North Carolina, one of eight children.
		Simone's mother, Mary Kate Waymon (who lived into her late 90s) was a strict Methodist minister; her father, John Divine Waymon, was a handyman and sometime barber who suffered bouts of ill-health.
		Simone turned instead to blues and jazz after getting her start at the Midtown Bar and Grill on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, taking the name Nina Simone in 1954; "Nina" was her boyfriend's nickname for her (from the Spanish for "little girl"), and "Simone" was after the French actress Simone Signoret.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nina_Simone (1325 words)

	The Nina Simone Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933 as Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina.
		Nina eventually went on to attend the Juilliard School in New York in her last year of high school with the hopes of being accepted to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, but was rejected.
		Nina Simone believed that she was good enough for the program, but that she was rejected because she was fl-- one of many disappointments she would encounter and attribute to racism.
	www.theninasimonefoundation.org /content.php?page=biography (928 words)

	Nina Simone - Biography - AOL Music
		Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to classify.
		Simone was not as well-served by her tenure with RCA in the late '60s and early '70s, another prolific period which saw the release of nine albums.
		Simone fell on turbulent times in the 1970s, divorcing her husband/manager Andy Stroud, encountering serious financial problems, and becoming something of a nomad, settling at various points in Switzerland, Liberia, Barbados, France, and Britain.
	music.aol.com /artist/nina-simone/3149/biography (952 words)

	Nina Simone: She Cast a Spell—and Made a Choice
		Nina was a significant discovery for Iyana because when Nina died at 70 a couple of weeks later, she felt that she had gotten to know the songstress on her own.
		Simone to all those who couldn't wrap their minds around this woman, Black woman, protest woman, iconical woman, the one woman whose very voice summoned the spirits of the Middle Passage, of those under the overseer's lash, of that charred fruit hanging from southern trees.
		When Nina Simone died quietly in her home in southern France on 21 April 2003, the spiritual essence of three generations of freedom fighters passed on to the otherworld the proverbial crossroads with her.
	www.seeingblack.com /2003/x060403/nina_simone.shtml (2206 words)

	Nina Simone - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There was something about the heaviness in the timbre of Simone's voice and the lightness of her fingers on the piano keys that produced a sound of tremendous joy and tremendous sorrow -- simultaneously.
		Simone's admirers have found their way to her from a range of places, and that diversity is reflected in her music.
		Simone was born in 1933 as Eunice Waymon, the sixth of eight children in the segregated town of Tryon, N.C. Her mother was a minister who also worked as a maid and her father was a handyman.
	dir.salon.com /people/bc/2000/06/20/simone/index.html (1064 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts news \| Nina Simone
		She often seemed to be considering these matters afresh in the course of a performance, and to be con fronting the pleasure and distress of life so close to the edge of a parapet that an audience hung on her every move, uncertain as to whether or not she would fall off.
		Simone went to the Juilliard School of Music in New York in 1950 but, by 1954, had discovered how tough it would be for a fl performer to make headway in the classical world, and begun working as a singer-pianist in the Midtown Bar and Grill in Atlantic City.
		Simone often behaved as if her muse and her music were hard-won prizes, not to be lightly given away, even to paying customers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/obituary/0,12723,940987,00.html (1596 words)

	Nina Simone dies - theage.com.au
		Simone, whose smoky, sometimes raw and sometimes sweet voice was known to millions, was born February 21, 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina as Eunice Waymon, sixth of seven children in a poor family.
		Simone's musical range was enormous and she could switch from one genre to another in a blink.
		Simone's voice could rise to an angry scream, fall to a growl or fade to a whisper; she could sing with a frightening rage and intensity or tenderly caress a melody.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/04/22/1050777237715.html (939 words)

	The Nina Simone Web - Biography
		Nina (niña means "girl" in Spanish) from a pet name that a boyfriend gave her, and Simone (from the French actress Simone Signoret) for its dignified sound.
		In 1966 Nina switches to RCA (she will stay until 1974: to date her last long-term affiliation with an American label) a deal negotiated by her husband who acts as her manager and to whom some compositions are credited.
		In 1978 Nina was arrested, and soon released, for withholding taxes in 1971-73 in protest at her government's undeclared war in Vietnam.
	www.boscarol.com /nina/html/manual/bio.html (1544 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Jazz legend Simone dies
		Simone was best known for My Baby Just Cares For Me Legendary jazz and blues singer Nina Simone has died at the age of 70 at her home in southern France, her agent has announced.
		Simone was one of the last divas of jazz and was considered one of the finest songwriters and musicians of her day.
		Simone was twice married and divorced, and is survived by one daughter, Lisa Celeste Shroud - who is now known simply as Simone.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/2965221.stm (455 words)

	Nina Simone - Verve Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was her protest songs that best demonstrated Simone’s amazing ability to communicate, deeply and clearly, human emotion, especially those of Black people in the U.S.A. It was around this time that people began referring to Simone as the "High Priestess of Soul," after she put out an album of the same name.
		Despite her self imposed exile and her obvious outspoken lack of appreciation for the recording industry, Nina Simone is a legend of incalculable magnitude.
		Nina Simone has burned her soulful, musical wonders on the psyche of jazz lovers everywhere, and has inspired love and compassion in places seemingly bereft of such trying emotions.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /verve/artist.asp?aid=2884 (734 words)

	Nina Simone Page
		Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933, one of eight children.
		Nina studied at the Juilliard Conservatory in New York where she intended to pursue a career as a concert pianist, however, the need to earn a living led her to becoming a night-club accompanist.
		Nina Simone died on the 21st of April 2003, after a long illness at her home in Southern France.
	www.soulwalking.co.uk /Nina%20Simone.html (447 words)

	7.30 Report
		Nina Simone was hailed by fans and fellow performers as the high priestess of soul.
		Nina Simone reigned as a diva for five decades but passed away last night at the age of 70.
		NINA SIMONE: I was born a child prodigy, darling.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2003/s837818.htm (843 words)

	MTV News - Jazz Legend Nina Simone Dies At Age 70
		Simone, who had been living in France for much of the past decade, was also known for her prowess as a composer and arranger and for such social statement songs as "Mississippi Goddam" and "Old Jim Crow."
		At age 10, Simone's parents were removed from the front row of her music recital to accommodate a white couple — an incident that helped inspire her commitment to civil rights.
		Simone continued to chart with her interpretations from a variety of genres in the late 1960s, including a medley of "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" from the hippie musical "Hair" and a soulful version of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody," which hit the British top 10 in 1969.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1471410/20030421/simone_nina.jhtml?headlines=true (954 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Blues: Music: Nina Simone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nina's take on Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" reveals a sharp pain to the song that Rick Danko and The Band came very close to in their brilliant version.
		Nina has a great body of work, and these songs are as good as anything else she has done.
		Nina Simone SHOULD have been the biggest star of the past forty years, and this album is one of her very best.
	www.amazon.ca /Blues-Nina-Simone/dp/B0000004XU (1053 words)

	LivinBlues- Nina Simone
		Simone was an eclectic who brought soulful qualities to whatever material she interpreted.
		Nina Simone fell on turbulent times in the 1970s, divorcing her husband/manager Andy Stroud, encountering serious financial problems, and becoming something of a nomad, settling at various points in Switzerland, Liberia, Barbados, France, and Britain.
		Nina Simone passed away after a long illness at her home in her villa in Carry-le-Rouet (South of France) on April 21, 2003.
	www.livinblues.com /bluesrooms/ninasimone.asp (550 words)

	African American Registry: Nina Simone, more than a voice
		Other characteristics of the Simone art are: her original timing, the way she uses silence as a musical element, and her often understated live act, sitting at the piano and advancing the mood and climate of her songs by a few chords.
		When four Black children were killed in the bombing of a church in Birmingham in 1963, Nina wrote Mississippi Goddam, a bitter and furious accusation of the situation of her people in the USA.
		Nina Simone arguably was the ultimate songstress and storyteller of the times.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1437/Nine_Simone_more_than_a_voice (883 words)

	Nina Simone: The High Priestess Goes Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coming from Tryon, North Carolina, Simone knew the dramatic differences between Black and White, and when she was not accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music College to study concert piano, she knew it had nothing to do with piano expertise since she had played since the age of 4.
		Miles and Nina were just alike, and thus it was appropriate for them to perform on the same bill at the Shrine Auditorium in l976....Both demanding of their audiences to attentively listen to their performances.
		Nina Simone was a pure artist, a strong woman revered for her principles and ethics.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=331 (775 words)

	Nina_simone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		essential collection: This is Nina Simone at her consistent best.There are other definitive tunes,ones that she made her own, here and there on other anthologies but no other collection really represents her as well as this.Her piano playing and vocals and the material covered...
		Not a great introduction to Nina Simone: In the liner notes of this CD, the writer tells you that Nina Simone was not pleased with what was recorded finally to become "Baltimore," and that he disagreed with her opinion that this was inferior work.
		The Essential Nina Simone is an excellent "all 'round" album in that it gives a small taste of everything Nina sang and sang so well: blues, soul, gospel, rock, folk, R+B, etc. It...
	music.mysic.com /Nina_Simone?p=3 (1106 words)

	Dr. Nina Simone's Biography
		Although Nina was called "High Priestess of Soul" and was respected by fans and critics as a mysterious, almost religious figure, she was often misunderstood as well.
		Her first RCA album, "Nina Simone Sings The Blues", includes her own I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Do I Move You, a haunting version of My Man's Gone Now (again from "Porgy & Bess") and the protest song Backlash Blues, based on a poem written for her by Langston Hughes.
		Nina was the highlight of the Nice Jazz Festival in France in 1997, the Thessalonica Jazz Festival in Greece in 1998.
	www.ninasimone.com /nina.html (1526 words)

	Feminist Daily News 4/22/2003: Jazz Great, Civil Rights Hero Nina Simone Dies
		Nina Simone, a singer, composer, and pianist who made racism a central theme in her work, died yesterday at age 70 at her home in France.
		Simone wrote and recorded "Mississippi Goddam" as an angry response to killing of civil rights activist Medgar Evers and the deaths of four girls in a Birmingham church in 1963, according to the New York Times.
		Simone said that racism factored into her decision to live abroad, saying that as an African-American, she "paid a heavy price for fighting the establishment," according to AP.
	www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=7728 (457 words)

	Jazz:Simone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Like, say, Aretha Franklin, or Dusty Springfield, Simone is an eclectic, who brings soulful qualities to whatever material she interprets.
		If Simone has a chip on her shoulder, it probably arose from the formidable obstacles she had to overcome to establish herself as a popular singer.
		These records can be breathtakingly erratic, moving from warm ballad interpretations of Jacques Brel and Billie Holiday and instrumental piano workouts to brassy pop and angry political statements in a heartbeat.There's a great deal of fine music to be found on these, however.
	www.ddg.com /LIS/InfoDesignF96/Ismael/jazz/1980/Simone.html (782 words)

	Nina Simone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nina Simone was born in Tryon, North Carolina.
		In recent times, Simone has recorded and performed primarily in Europe, but she experienced a resurgence of popularity in the United States with her 1993 recording "A Single Woman".
		Nina Simone recently departed this world on April 21, 2003.
	members.aol.com /klove01/ninasimo.htm (190 words)

	USATODAY.com - Singing legend Nina Simone dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nina Simone was called the "High Priestess of Soul," a term applying not so much to her musical style — that was far too diverse to be categorized — but to the deep recesses from which her artistry sprang.
		Simone was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, N.C., the sixth of seven children in a poor family.
		But despite her success, Simone eventually became fed up with the music industry and the USA, and in 1974 she left the country for good.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2003-04-21-simone-obit-usat_x.htm (483 words)

	The Priestess of Soul is dead. Thank you Nina Simone
		Today Nina Simone left us, and the world is a decidedly better place for her time with us...
		As an old piano player myself, though decidedly part time, Nina Simone was perhaps the greatest influence on the way i banged out a tune on the old goanna.
		Nina Simone, though she made several artistically acclaimed but never highly popular covers of contemporary pop, refused to compromise her style like many before her.
	www.apmforum.com /drops/000301.php (650 words)

	Amazon.com: Anthology: Music: Nina Simone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Simone takes a song that we think we know or that somone else has sung what we think is the definitive version and makes it her own all over again.
		Perhaps only Nina Simone heard the bird singing in the gilden cage, but she warbled about it with such natural, eerie, musclar talent that to hear it is to be arrested on the spot.
		Someone with a voice like Simone, who could effortelessly master just about any musical form she tried her hand at -- pop standards, soulful ballads, smoky jazz, throaty R & B -- this is someone who ought to be in your collection if you want to bat with the big boys.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009PJPJ?v=glance (2312 words)

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