Nina Simone, who died in April 2003, was an artist who defied classification. During her career she recorded 34 albums that ranged from jazz, blues and gospel to folk and calypso. Her music not only ...

Nina Simone was a luminary who continues to shape the world and new artists to this day. But before she became the High Priestess of Soul, Simone was Eunice Waymon, a girl from North Carolina, born 93 ...

The post Nina Simone’s 1966 Newport Jazz Festival Performance to Be Released as Live Album appeared first on Consequence. A newly-discovered recording of Nina Simone’s performance at the 1966 Newport ...

The charm and concision of the best graphic biographies provide dramatic scenes and pithy captions that can evoke a life better than whole paragraphs and pages of narrative biographies. Even so, ...

As part of a yearlong celebration of Nina Simone’s 90 th birthday, a newly discovered recording from the Tryon, North Carolina-born singer’s performance at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival is set for ...

One at a time, the women interrupt Nina Simone (Alexis J. Roston) as she tries to write words to a new song: Meek, faith-filled Aunt Sarah (Gabrielle Lott-Rogers), wearing a maid's uniform.

When Brenda Flanagan arrived at JFK Airport in 1967 from her home on the island of Trinidad, the 19-year-old had $10 in her pocket, a phone number for an American social worker and a closely guarded ...

Alexis J. Roston, left, and Brittney Mack perform in "Nina Simone: Four Women." Milwaukee Repertory Theater performs the show April 16-May 12. That bombing killed four Black girls: Addie Mae Collins, ...

The art of Nina Simone is the art of transformation. This becomes abundantly clear on “You’ve Got To Learn,” a previously unreleased concert recording from the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. Ken ...

*Ever since the Nina Simone life story project was announced it’s been enshrouded in controversy. Chief of which is the casting of actress Zoe Saldana to play Simone. Well, also it’s no secret that ...

On her fourth studio album Proof of Life, singer songwriter Joy Oladokun spins relatable tales. There’s an honesty to the songwriting that hearkens back to the strength of the American folk tradition, ...

"Nina Simone: Four Women," Milwaukee Repertory Theater's new production, is neither a musical nor a revue. Instead, Christina Ham's play with substantial music dramatizes how Simone made civil rights ...