All About Jazz is celebrating Nina Simone's birthday today! The High Priestess- Eunice Waymon was born in Tryon, North Carolina as the sixth of seven children in a poor family. The child prodigy ...
She could move from a whisper to a roar within a phrase, and her repertoire covered jazz standards, protest songs, blues and pop. Listen to these 11 favorites. Credit...Illustration by Dante Zaballa ...
Lady Nade and her superb band paid a rich tribute to Nina Simone at The Edge Arts Centre in Much Wenlock on Saturday night ...
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Queens of Jazz: Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald & Nina Simone

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nina Simone—and explores their lives and struggles, showcasing the challenges faced by women in show business and black individuals in America. Their artistic ...
On Saturday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 2018 class during a ceremony held in Cleveland. Legendary singer Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe were both inducted into the hall. After ...
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, ...