Nina Simone (/ˈniːnə sᵻˈmoʊn/; conceived Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American vocalist, musician, piano player, arranger, and social equality extremist who worked in a wide scope of musical styles including established, jazz, soul, people, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Conceived in North Carolina, the 6th offspring of an evangelist, Simone tried to be a show pianist.[1] With the assistance of supporters in the place where she grew up of Tryon, North Carolina, she selected in the Juilliard School of Music in New York yet was not able proceed with in view of the high fees.[2]
Miss Waymon then connected for a grant to learn at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied regardless of a generally welcomed audition.[3] Simone turned out to be completely persuaded this dismissal had been altogether because of her race, an announcement that has been a matter of contention. A long time later, two days before her demise, Curtis Institute of Music offered a privileged degree to Nina Simone.[3]
To bring home the bacon, Miss Eunice Waymon transformed her name to Nina Simone identified with a need to mask her from relatives and having played "the fiend's music"[3] or "mixed drink piano" at a dance club in Atlantic City, where she was advised she needed to sing to her own backup, which successfully propelled her profession as a jazz vocalist.
Nina Simone recorded more than forty collections, generally between 1958, when she made her presentation with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy".[1]
Her musical style melded gospel and popular with traditional music, specifically Johann Sebastian Bach,[4] and went with expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.[5][6]
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