Nina Simone
Nina Simone ( Eunice Kathleen Waymon in fact, born February 21, 1933, Tryon (North Carolina), USA; † 21 April 2003 in Carry-le- Rouet, France) was an American jazz and blues singer, pianist and songwriter. They avoided the term jazz, she even named her Music Black Classical Music. She called herself with the last name Simone, because she was a fan of Simone Signoret.
Life
Nina Simone was the sixth of eight children in a Methodistenpredigerin and a craftsman. At the age of four, she began playing the piano. After studying at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City, they wanted to finish their training in Philadelphia at the Curtis Institute of Music, but was not admitted for suspected racist reasons. About a job as a piano teacher came to the Nina Simone song, which they improvised their own pieces from the start. Your vocal and piano style was influenced by Nellie Lutcher, whose career was ended at about the time when Nina Simone was known.
In 1957 she published her first album in New York on Bethlehem Records, a concert in 1959 in the New York City Town Hall made it known in the U.S. and in Europe. She was referred to reverently as " High Priestess of Soul" by her fans. In the 1960s she became involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, with songs such as Mississippi Goddam and To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (lyrics by Weldon Irvine ), she was one of their musical role models.
Your own private life broke but piece by piece: She fled from their marriages, had an affair with the Prime Minister of Barbados ( Errol Barrow ), based on a recommendation of Miriam Makeba searched their determination in Africa, undertook tours of Europe, which they political struggle alienated in the U.S. and was in the record industry is increasingly difficult. Their album Baltimore ( 1978) was praised by the critics but sold poorly at first. In the 1980s, she appeared regularly in the jazz club Ronnie Scott in London ( and even recorded an album there). Her autobiography I Put a Spell on You was released in 1992, her last album, 1993. During the same year she moved to southern France, where she lived for ten years and in 2003, after a long battle with cancer died.
The title Is not Got No / I Got Life from their 1968 album 'Nuff Said! is a medley of two songs from the musical Hair. Known to a wider audience, it was mainly through her song My Baby Just Cares for Me - thanks to a Chanel commercials he was in 1987, 30 years after the recording of the piece, a worldwide hit. At the sale proceeds she was only minimally involved. In 1993, the movie code name came: Nina with Bridget Fonda in the lead role in the cinemas - with a soundtrack that consisted partly of music of Nina Simone. In the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo appeared the intro to their version of the Gospels Sinnerman again and again to finally inferior to the climax of the film with its distinctive vocals. 2009 Pandemic Studios used Simone's version of the song Feeling Good as well as a remix version as a musical background of playing in the Paris World War II computer game Saboteur.