Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before the American public knew her as Nina Simone “the high priestess of soul,” Eunice Kathleen Waymon was already making a name ...

A musical tribute to the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with his words interspersed. Music from Nina Simone, Christian McBride, Jack DeJohnette, Terri Lyne Carrington with Christie ...

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We meet the Broadway veteran Laiona Michelle as she portrays the legendary singer Nina Simone in a musical she both wrote and stars in at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ. State of the ...

Jazz legend Nina Simone had an extraordinary, tumultuous life, becoming a civil rights activist and international star from humble beginnings as Eunice Waymon in North Carolina. But one of the ...

Nina Simone and Bob Dylan were, in a way, two sides of the same coin. They were both people who used music as a form of activism and political commentary. They were both talented songwriters who ...

Before the American public knew her as Nina Simone “the high priestess of soul,” Eunice Kathleen Waymon was already making a name for herself in Western North Carolina. Born in 1933 at 30 East ...