Nina Simone | A Greatest Singer
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop,More info:wiki
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#10 The Nina Simone Biopic That Has Infuriated Her Family and Fans,More info:theintercept
The imminent release of a Hollywood movie based on the life of Nina Simone, the iconic black pianist, singer, and civil rights activist, has reignited a debate over the casting of Zoe Saldana, an actress of Dominican descent who had to dramatically alter her looks, by darkening her skin and wearing a prosthetic nose, to play the starring role.
#9 Nina Simone and the problem with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,More info:ew
The greatest trick of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is in its ability to listen to the cries of those who feel an artist has been slighted, and then cede ground to those artists, one by one. It started when rap stars like Grandmaster Flash and Run D.M.C. began trickling in – something purists saw as a desecration, despite the fact that the Hall had become malleable around the idea of strict genre rules years earlier, when soul and funk acts including James Brown and Sam Cooke were inducted. Everything can be rock & roll so I suppose nothing is truly rock & roll.
Still, it feels like the Hall — which will hold its 33rd induction ceremony this weekend, in Cleveland – roots through its list of eligible bands and artists that have been undeservingly snubbed for years, and puts one or two in, not only as an attempt to satisfy the cries of those who are frustrated with the process, but to win them back for another cycle or two.
#8 Nina,More info:rollingstone
The word on this Nina Simone biopic has been so toxic for so long — it was filmed in 2012 but only released now — I was really hoping to find something good in it. No luck. It’s not that Simone, a legendary musician and civil-rights activist diagnosed with bipolar disorder, doesn’t deserve a movie of her own. The jazz singer, pianist and songwriter accumulated 15 Grammy nominations before her death in 2003 at the age of 70. And last year’s Oscar-nominated documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?, got to the core of her talent and temperament. Of course, the doc had the real thing. Nina, on the other hand, is an imitation of Simone’s life that keeps hitting wrong notes.
#7 Nina Simone’s North Carolina Home Named A National Treasure,More info:grammy
The National Trust for Historic Preservation(opens in a new tab) announced on June 20 that the childhood home of Nina Simone in Tryon, N.C. will be protected as a National Treasure. The Trust has worked with the Ford Foundation to make this the first musical site protected with the assistance of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
#6 Exclusive: Nina Simone as You’ve Never Seen Her,More info:thedailybeast
#5 Review: Simone Biopic Nina Is All Wrong, But Who’s to Blame?,More info:time
#4 nina-simone,More info:guardian
#3 Nina Simone’s ‘Lovely, Precious Dream’ For Black Children,More info:wfae
By the early 1960s, Nina Simone was well-known to the world as a singer, songwriter and classically trained pianist. But around 1963, as race relations in America hit a boiling point, she made a sharp turn in her music — toward activism.
First, there was the murder of Medgar Evers that summer. The civil rights leader was killed by a Klansman, shot in the back in his own driveway in Mississippi. Three months later, in Birmingham, Ala., four black girls were killed in a church bombing. In response to the grief and outrage, Simone wrote a powerful song with unsparing lyrics and a provocative title: ” Mississippi Goddam.”
#2 HOW NINA SIMONE USED HER MUSICAL ART FOR RACIAL JUSTICE,More info:ozy
The full house at Philharmonic Hall in New York City erupted into applause when Nina Simone’s guitarist, Emile Latimer, plucked the final haunting note of “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair,” the concert’s opening number. Simone, whose commanding stage presence earned her the title the High Priestess of Soul, still hadn’t spoken to her audience. And now she launched into her recent hit “Ain’t Got No, I Got Life.”
#1 The Nina Simone biopic hits theatres next month; her daughter hopes fans stay home,More info:sbs
After years of production troubles and repeated delays, a controversial biopic about legendary jazz singer and Civil Rights icon Nina Simone is finally due to hit theatres next month — and a lot of people have made it clear that they won’t be seeing it.
The backlash against director Cynthia Mort’s Nina has been particularly sharp since it was announced in 2012 that the light-skinned Zoe Saldana, who is Dominican and Puerto Rican, would play Simone. The choice sparked an onslaught of infuriated blog posts, calls for a boycott and even a petition for a casting change.
That outrage was renewed this week after Entertainment Weekly released an official movie poster and trailer for the film, which showed Saldana in skin-darkening makeup and a prosthetic nose.
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