Many music fans know that Nina Simone’s 1965 hit “I Put a Spell on You” helped establish the 32-year-old singer as the “High ...

A small three-room house in Tryon, North Carolina, once stood close to demolition. It was the childhood home of Nina Simone, ...

While Nina Simone was forcing audiences to meet her at her level, critics were busy drawing the wrong comparisons to her, so ...

Nina Simone’s 650 sq ft childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina, has been restored after sitting vacant and severely decayed ...

In retrospect, the friendship and alliance between Nina Simone and Langston Hughes make perfect sense. Why wouldn’t Hughes, the renowned wordsmith of the Harlem Renaissance, hel ...

Nina Simone earns her first RIAA certification as “Feeling Good” skips straight to double platinum, decades after becoming her definitive recording. American singer, songwriter, pianist and civil ...

NC State's W. Jason Miller discusses his latest book, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: Nina Simone, Langston Hughes and the ...

Nina Simone was formidable in her approach to music as well as the wider world, and in this vein, there was an iconic singer ...

Nina Simone’s timeless legacy isn’t just heard in her soul-stirring melodies—it’s reflected in the way her beauty defied convention and celebrated unapologetic Blackness. From her radiant skin to her ...

Her videos of Sinatra, Dean Matrin and Nina Simone's Classics amassed 200 million views and counting. Her rendition of these classics has received high praise for her uncanny ability to sing jazz ...

Nina Simone was a complicated woman. That complexity was one of many things about her that launched her to stardom as one of the most revered and beloved jazz and R&B singer/songwriters of her ...

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 ...