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April 21, 2003

Nina Simone Dies

Jazz singer/pianist was seventy

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A Single Woman

Incomparable and unfathomable, Nina Simone is in her finest form when tearing into the guts and pathos of unlikely songs – by the likes of Bob Dylan, Kurt Weill and Screamin' Jay Hawkins – songs that no other singer who has brushed up against the genre called soul would touch. Hoping to...

1993 RS: 2of 5 Stars

Baltimore

1978

Gifted & Black

1969

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Biography

Singer Nina Simone's music has gone from gospel to jazz to pop to R&B and blues to a raging black protest that moved her off the supper-club circuit and into political rallies and soul concerts. Known since the late '50s as the "High Priestess of Soul," she enjoyed a renaissance in her sixth decade with the publication of her autobiography and the exposure given her music in a popular American fil...

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