Waymon became fully convinced this rejection had been entirely due to. Waymon then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious in, where she was denied admission despite a well-received audition. With the help of a few supporters in her hometown of, she enrolled in the in New York. Born in, the sixth child of a preacher, Waymon aspired to be a concert pianist. Simone employed a broad range of musical styles including, and. composer Years active 1954–2003 Labels, Website Nina Simone ( born Eunice Kathleen Waymon February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and activist in the.She was a tour de force most the time.įorever Nina Simone. But since the first track of Ellingtons´s 'Mood Indigo' that kicks your teeth in, to her deep explorations into african slave hymns, and civil rights movement. She has been a huge inspiration to me despite her sad turmoils in life.
Check her first Montreux performance on You Tube for some of that. Often bringing plenty humour with her repertoire, sometimes acting crazy and hard to understand (She was rumoured to be Bi-Polar anyways). Im pretty glad she did, because ultimately, she was better on stage than on studio. She also released plenty of live material. Listening through her albums and then tracking down the originals and you will see, Nina took them and re-invented them.
The original is a very folksy and livid tune, Nina simply stripped it down to a dark hymn and created this intense message instead. But while Aretha Franklin for instance took Otis Redding´s R.e.s.p.e.c.t and pretty much made it her own, Nina on the other hand took way more of other tracks and did the same. Like Elvis Presley, she wrote few songs of herself. To me, she however outgrew that trademark pretty quickly. Simone truly was one, although you could easily dismiss her as a jazz artist. Many of the finest artist that lived did not have a specific style labeled to them.
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