Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Tryon, United States, February 21, 1933 - Carry-le-Rouet, Francia, 21 de abril de 2003), Nina Simone fue una cantante, compositora y pianista estadounidense de jazz, blues, rhythm and blues y soul. Se la conoce con el sobrenombre de «High Priestess of Soul».
Estilísticamente, la palabra que mejor caracteriza a Nina Simone es eclecticismo. Su voz, con rango propio de una alto, se caracterizaba por su pasión, su breathiness (voz jadeante, sofocada, sin aliento) y su trémolo.
La influencia de Duke Ellington es patente en toda la obra de Nina, pero muy especialmente en cierto tipo de composiciones rebosantes de improvisación y de cercanía espiritual. Nina logra la complicidad del oyente con un empleo intencional de los silencios and minimizing the accompaniment. His voice sometimes slurred, but then screams and groans, conveying all the sensations that the human soul is capable of experiencing.
Great fighter for civil rights of people of African descent, fight it on many occasions expressed through his songs, Simone left the United States in 1969 after the assassination of Martin Luther King, weary of racial segregation against African Americans.
of complicated personality, came to be haughty and vulnerable, and strongly passionate. In the music industry had a reputation for temperamental, a characterization that Simone was taken very seriously. Although his personality was arrogant and distant, in their decades seemed to enjoy the approach to their audiences, telling stories and meeting requests.
Like other African American singers, Marian Anderson found a source of inspiration, and began singing in his local church, while showing a great talent with the piano, he started playing four years already. When it debuted publicly in a piano recital at age ten, his parents, who sat in the front row, were forced to move to other white workers occupy their places. Such conditions motivate later life to become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
At seventeen years Simone moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she taught piano and accompanied singers. With the support of several sponsors, including his former music teacher, he studied piano at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City, but the lack of resources prevented him from achieving his dream of becoming the first black pianist to U.S. concert. He later auditioned to study piano at the Curtis Institute, but was rejected. Simone was convinced it was rejected for being black. New York, his family moved to Philadelphia, where he tried to get a scholarship, but was also rejected by the color of their skin.
Then, Simone came to blues and jazz, having started on a nightclub in Atlantic City to help his family financially.
stage name Nina Simone adopted it in 1954, Nina (from a word in English girl) was the nickname given him a boyfriend and Simone took him by the French actress Simone Signoret, whom he had seen in the film Casque d'or.
He became known to a wider audience with its rendition of I Love You Porgy of George Gershwin, who became his only Top 40 hit the United States. Then would come the single My Baby Just Cares for Me (which would be a hit in 80 in England to be used in a commercial perfume Chanel No. 5).
At 60, Simone was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and recorded some political songs, including To Be Young, Gifted and Black (played later by Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway), Blacklash Blues, Mississippi Goddam ( in response to the murder of Medgar Evers and the terrorist attack on the church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 by white supremacists and that resulted in the deaths of four black girls), I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to and be Free Pirate Jenny in Kurt Weill, a hotel situated in the south.
In 1961, Simone recorded a version of the traditional song House of the Rising Sun, also would record after Bob Dylan and The Animals. Other songs that made it famous were I Put a Spell on You, Here Comes the Sun of The Beatles, Four Women, I Shall Be Released and Is not Got No (I Got Life). Nina's versatility as an artist is evident throughout his music, which often had a simple equivalent to the trova. In the same concert, the topics ranged from a religious (gospel) to blues and jazz, on topics such as For All We Know , numbers de estilo europeo clásico y figuras de contrapunto. En 1968 el tema Sinnerman de Simone apareció en la película de Norman Jewison The Thomas Crown Affair, lo que llevó su música a audiencias mayores. La nueva versión de la película rodada en 1999 con Pierce Brosnan y Rene Russo volvió a incluir a Simone. Otras películas han utilizado Sinnerman en su banda sonora, como Inland Empire de David Lynch.
En septiembre de 1970, Simone abandonó Estados Unidos en dirección a Barbados, tras desacuerdos con agentes, compañías discográficas y con la Agencia de impuestos norteamericana (Internal Revenue Service), que ella atribuía the racism of American society. He returned in 1978, where he was wanted for tax evasion (he had refused to pay for several years in protest of the Vietnam War), so he returned to Barbados, where he maintained a relationship with Prime Minister Errol Barrow. In the 80 sang regularly at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. The singer and friend of Nina, Miriam Makeba, convinced her to go to live in Liberia. Later he lived in Switzerland and Holland before settling in Aix-en-Provence in southern France in 1992.
1992 saw Nina Simone's autobiography entitled I Put a Spell on You (ISBN 0-306-80525-1). In 1995, Simone allegedly he shot his neighbor's son with an air pistol as their laughter did not let her concentrate.
His companions were common during this time Lepoldo Fleming (percussion), Tony Jones (bass), Paul Robinson (drums), Xavier Collados (keyboards) and musical director Al Schackman (guitar).
Nina was one of the stars of festivals such as the Nice Jazz Festival 1997, the Thessalonica Jazz Festival in 1998.
In the Guinness Blues Festival in Dublin in 1999, his daughter, Lisa Celeste, acted as "Simone", singing a duet with her mother some issues.
Simone sang with English singer Raphael and participated in two plays by Disney, singing main themes of Aida and Nala in The Lion King .
On July 24, 1998 Nina Simone was the special guest at the party of Nelson Mandela's 80th birthday. On October 7, 1999 received an award for artistic achievement of a lifetime in Dublin.
In 2000 he received the title of Honorary Citizenship to Atlanta, the Diamond Award for Excellence in Music from the Association of African American Music in Philadelphia and the Honorable Musketeer Award from the Compagnie des Mousquetaires d'Armagnac in France.
died in his sleep in Carry-le-Rouet in 2003.
of Wikipedia.
Tracklist:
01. My Baby Just Cares For Me
02. Do not Smoke In Bed
03. I Loves You, Porgy
04. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
05. Trouble In Mind
06.
Mississippi Goddam 07. I Put A Spell On You
08. Ne Me Quitte Pas
09. My Man's Gone Now
10. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
11. Blues For Mama
12. To Love Somebody
13. Is not Got No - I Got Life
14. Do What You Gotta Do
15. To Be Young, Gifted And Black
16. Jelly Roll
Estilísticamente, la palabra que mejor caracteriza a Nina Simone es eclecticismo. Su voz, con rango propio de una alto, se caracterizaba por su pasión, su breathiness (voz jadeante, sofocada, sin aliento) y su trémolo.
La influencia de Duke Ellington es patente en toda la obra de Nina, pero muy especialmente en cierto tipo de composiciones rebosantes de improvisación y de cercanía espiritual. Nina logra la complicidad del oyente con un empleo intencional de los silencios and minimizing the accompaniment. His voice sometimes slurred, but then screams and groans, conveying all the sensations that the human soul is capable of experiencing.
Great fighter for civil rights of people of African descent, fight it on many occasions expressed through his songs, Simone left the United States in 1969 after the assassination of Martin Luther King, weary of racial segregation against African Americans.
of complicated personality, came to be haughty and vulnerable, and strongly passionate. In the music industry had a reputation for temperamental, a characterization that Simone was taken very seriously. Although his personality was arrogant and distant, in their decades seemed to enjoy the approach to their audiences, telling stories and meeting requests.
Like other African American singers, Marian Anderson found a source of inspiration, and began singing in his local church, while showing a great talent with the piano, he started playing four years already. When it debuted publicly in a piano recital at age ten, his parents, who sat in the front row, were forced to move to other white workers occupy their places. Such conditions motivate later life to become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
At seventeen years Simone moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she taught piano and accompanied singers. With the support of several sponsors, including his former music teacher, he studied piano at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City, but the lack of resources prevented him from achieving his dream of becoming the first black pianist to U.S. concert. He later auditioned to study piano at the Curtis Institute, but was rejected. Simone was convinced it was rejected for being black. New York, his family moved to Philadelphia, where he tried to get a scholarship, but was also rejected by the color of their skin.
Then, Simone came to blues and jazz, having started on a nightclub in Atlantic City to help his family financially.
stage name Nina Simone adopted it in 1954, Nina (from a word in English girl) was the nickname given him a boyfriend and Simone took him by the French actress Simone Signoret, whom he had seen in the film Casque d'or.
He became known to a wider audience with its rendition of I Love You Porgy of George Gershwin, who became his only Top 40 hit the United States. Then would come the single My Baby Just Cares for Me (which would be a hit in 80 in England to be used in a commercial perfume Chanel No. 5).
At 60, Simone was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and recorded some political songs, including To Be Young, Gifted and Black (played later by Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway), Blacklash Blues, Mississippi Goddam ( in response to the murder of Medgar Evers and the terrorist attack on the church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 by white supremacists and that resulted in the deaths of four black girls), I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to and be Free Pirate Jenny in Kurt Weill, a hotel situated in the south.
In 1961, Simone recorded a version of the traditional song House of the Rising Sun, also would record after Bob Dylan and The Animals. Other songs that made it famous were I Put a Spell on You, Here Comes the Sun of The Beatles, Four Women, I Shall Be Released and Is not Got No (I Got Life). Nina's versatility as an artist is evident throughout his music, which often had a simple equivalent to the trova. In the same concert, the topics ranged from a religious (gospel) to blues and jazz, on topics such as For All We Know , numbers de estilo europeo clásico y figuras de contrapunto. En 1968 el tema Sinnerman de Simone apareció en la película de Norman Jewison The Thomas Crown Affair, lo que llevó su música a audiencias mayores. La nueva versión de la película rodada en 1999 con Pierce Brosnan y Rene Russo volvió a incluir a Simone. Otras películas han utilizado Sinnerman en su banda sonora, como Inland Empire de David Lynch.
En septiembre de 1970, Simone abandonó Estados Unidos en dirección a Barbados, tras desacuerdos con agentes, compañías discográficas y con la Agencia de impuestos norteamericana (Internal Revenue Service), que ella atribuía the racism of American society. He returned in 1978, where he was wanted for tax evasion (he had refused to pay for several years in protest of the Vietnam War), so he returned to Barbados, where he maintained a relationship with Prime Minister Errol Barrow. In the 80 sang regularly at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. The singer and friend of Nina, Miriam Makeba, convinced her to go to live in Liberia. Later he lived in Switzerland and Holland before settling in Aix-en-Provence in southern France in 1992.
1992 saw Nina Simone's autobiography entitled I Put a Spell on You (ISBN 0-306-80525-1). In 1995, Simone allegedly he shot his neighbor's son with an air pistol as their laughter did not let her concentrate.
His companions were common during this time Lepoldo Fleming (percussion), Tony Jones (bass), Paul Robinson (drums), Xavier Collados (keyboards) and musical director Al Schackman (guitar).
Nina was one of the stars of festivals such as the Nice Jazz Festival 1997, the Thessalonica Jazz Festival in 1998.
In the Guinness Blues Festival in Dublin in 1999, his daughter, Lisa Celeste, acted as "Simone", singing a duet with her mother some issues.
Simone sang with English singer Raphael and participated in two plays by Disney, singing main themes of Aida and Nala in The Lion King .
On July 24, 1998 Nina Simone was the special guest at the party of Nelson Mandela's 80th birthday. On October 7, 1999 received an award for artistic achievement of a lifetime in Dublin.
In 2000 he received the title of Honorary Citizenship to Atlanta, the Diamond Award for Excellence in Music from the Association of African American Music in Philadelphia and the Honorable Musketeer Award from the Compagnie des Mousquetaires d'Armagnac in France.
died in his sleep in Carry-le-Rouet in 2003.
of Wikipedia.
Tracklist:
01. My Baby Just Cares For Me
02. Do not Smoke In Bed
03. I Loves You, Porgy
04. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
05. Trouble In Mind
06.
Mississippi Goddam 07. I Put A Spell On You
08. Ne Me Quitte Pas
09. My Man's Gone Now
10. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
11. Blues For Mama
12. To Love Somebody
13. Is not Got No - I Got Life
14. Do What You Gotta Do
15. To Be Young, Gifted And Black
16. Jelly Roll
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