One of my favorite moments from Netflix’s new Nina Simone documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?, is when she boldly calls herself a “rich black bitch.” The way she says it speaks to her ...

Simone had the uncanny ability to draw from injustice, classical influence and the blues, and sound authentic in each genre, to command a multitude of sounds all in her own remarkable way. Nina Simone ...

Four fine albums, covering the mid 1960s through 1980, which hopefully will introduce a new generation to the high priestess of soul, Nina Simone, and the great dark beauty of her music. Simone's ...

Nina Simone was one of the most influential figures in rhythm and blues music during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Tryon, North Carolina in 1933, her musical career spanned over 30 years until her ...

While this compilation combines Nina Simone's mastery of the blues and soul singing, its emphasis remains on what she said. As an active participant in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, she ...

Before Brittany Howard turned 30, the dynamic singer and guitarist already had multiple musical lives on her résumé: leading the Grammy-winning Alabama Shakes, her punk-blues side project Thunderbitch ...

The Postal Service remixed her; Norah Jones eulogized her in these pages. They’re among the many discriminating music geeks who’ve recognized that Nina Simone’s death three years ago robbed the world ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On July 23, 2021, Ledisi, the New Orleans-born and Oakland-raised singer, ...

It took 14 years and 13 nominations before New Orleans-born vocal fireball Ledisi finally won her first Grammy Award earlier this year. Her Best Traditional R&B Performance victory for “Anything But ...

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. As she did more than once in her storied career, Nina Simone got the jump on us Thursday night, at the start of Raleigh playwright ...

Bon Jovi reunited with former members onstage Saturday night to celebrate their admission into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, as the late icon Nina Simone and other nominees made up this ...

Ironically, the Beatles’ “Revolution” isn’t about a revolution — or is it? At different points, the lyrics promote and criticize the idea of a revolution. Above all, the track is ambivalent — while ...