Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Tryon, United States, February 21, 1933 - Carry-le-Rouet, France, April 21 2003), Nina Simone was a singer, songwriter and pianist of jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and soul. It is known by the nickname of "High Priestess of Soul."
Stylistically, the word that best characterizes Nina Simone's eclecticism. Her voice, with its own range of high, was characterized by passion, breathiness (voice gasping, choking, gasping for breath) and tremolo.
Duke Ellington's influence is evident throughout the work of Nina, but especially in certain types compositions full of improvisation and spiritual closeness. Nina manages the complicity of the listener with an intentional use of silence 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 personality complicated, 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 aloof, in his last 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 first 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, 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 for the piano in 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.
It released 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 be Free and Pirate Jenny , 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 in all 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 , classic European style numbers and figures of counterpoint. In 1968 the theme Simone Sinnerman featured in Norman Jewison's film The Thomas Crown Affair , bringing its music to wider audiences. The new version of the film shot in 1999 with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo re-introduced to Simone. Other movies have used Sinnerman in its soundtrack, as Inland Empire by David Lynch.
In September 1970, Simone left the United States toward Barbados, after disagreements with agents, record companies and the U.S. Agency tax (Internal Revenue Service), which she attributed to racism in 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 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's son allegedly shot his neighbor 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 the 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.
Murió mientras dormía en Carry-le-Rouet en 2003.
de la Wikipedia.
trax
1.: Here Comes The Sun
2.: Seems I'm Never Tired Of Lovin' You
3.: To Love Somebody
4.: Since I Fell For You
5.: Suzanne
6.: I Can't See Nobody
7.: New World Coming
8.: Angel Of The Morning
9.: Do I Move You
10.: I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
11.: Look Of Love
12.: Turn Me On
13.: I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
14.: I Loves You Porgy
Stylistically, the word that best characterizes Nina Simone's eclecticism. Her voice, with its own range of high, was characterized by passion, breathiness (voice gasping, choking, gasping for breath) and tremolo.
Duke Ellington's influence is evident throughout the work of Nina, but especially in certain types compositions full of improvisation and spiritual closeness. Nina manages the complicity of the listener with an intentional use of silence 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 personality complicated, 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 aloof, in his last 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 first 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, 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 for the piano in 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.
It released 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 be Free and Pirate Jenny , 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 in all 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 , classic European style numbers and figures of counterpoint. In 1968 the theme Simone Sinnerman featured in Norman Jewison's film The Thomas Crown Affair , bringing its music to wider audiences. The new version of the film shot in 1999 with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo re-introduced to Simone. Other movies have used Sinnerman in its soundtrack, as Inland Empire by David Lynch.
In September 1970, Simone left the United States toward Barbados, after disagreements with agents, record companies and the U.S. Agency tax (Internal Revenue Service), which she attributed to racism in 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 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's son allegedly shot his neighbor 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 the 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.
Murió mientras dormía en Carry-le-Rouet en 2003.
de la Wikipedia.
trax
1.: Here Comes The Sun
2.: Seems I'm Never Tired Of Lovin' You
3.: To Love Somebody
4.: Since I Fell For You
5.: Suzanne
6.: I Can't See Nobody
7.: New World Coming
8.: Angel Of The Morning
9.: Do I Move You
10.: I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
11.: Look Of Love
12.: Turn Me On
13.: I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
14.: I Loves You Porgy
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