Nina Simone made it very clear that her “job as a singer is to tell Blacks that Blackness, Black power and Black culture are from civilizations of unmatched beauty but we just don’t know it, and I will educate Blacks by whatever means necessary”. The very darkness of Simone’s skin and her distinctly African features defined both her music and her politics. Therefore, to portray her in the way of (Zoe Saldana's "Nina") is nothing short of criminal, it is a tone-deaf gross whitewashing of unapologetic Blackness.
iwasborntobefly she has been deprived humiliated bullied violated & so mistreated !!!! this fire is not from her and is far to be a disease !! so by god's grace think before labeling & diagnosis !!!!!! ; you & your ''judgement'' your words are insulting/ Attacking her , heart & soul and such legacy . she stands up with one face !!! with such courage & bravour & strength
her accent...the way she enunciates her words,...her articulation....her poise.....everything about her exudes class. i wish i could have a conversation with her. she is full of deep meaning.
I actually never heard any of her music until today. Someone sent me her documentary and I was in aw of her talent and statements. So much so, that I just googled a few of her interview. Her rise and fall was sad, but brilliant! I also like the fact that she goes in and out of accents. One minute she sounds french, the next just a regular voice. Lol
billionkek I didn't want mention her accent for fear of offending some but I was puzzled by it as it sounded French and British at times. I thought she was raised in the US. A true genius though and very intelligent.
I was honored to be at close to one of her last live performances in Newark, NJ when I was just out of college....I'll never forget her saying after she brought the lights down over the audience, "The world is not JUST in here. It's OUT there. And the reason I'm here, and you're here too, is not do the IN/OUT...."
The great Nina Simone encompassed dignity, elegance and poise and seemed to me to embody and cry out about the misery and pain of her people. What a tremendous Artist,Advocate and Lady. Go West Mama Nina
Nina is as real as a musician can be. A true musician, a true icon, a true legend. Every song makes me feel the pain she's been through and the love she has for music. Nowadays we musician as fake as plastic, it's sad!
These kinds of people only come to the earth ever so often. They aren't sent or born everyday. I am glad that I knew of her. I feel her through the music. Not the music or the instrument or the mechanics of modern day music studios and artistry. But you connect with her. And she was real. A real person, a real artist. A rare angelic Goddess.
Although I see her as herself,, she puts me in mind of Maya Angelou sometime as she speaks. She also kind of brings me to mind of modern spirit image of Miss India Arie.
I met her many years ago. She was American. I seem to recall that she was from the south, but others would know that better than I. I do know that she told me that her secret ingredient for making a good chicken soup, was to put a teaspoon? or tablespoon? of peanut butter. She was an elegant, and humble lady.
Vicky Sabato lol why does every video have some fake story about a personal experience with the artist just to get likes. I've had the fortune of meeting a lot of important and popular people but there is no reason I would have to tell the world about my insignificant run in with a celebrity. I guess they just like the likes. Why? Lol
She sang a lot of what she saw others ignoring. Injustice always breeds songs . I like her style . I respect her heart . Looks --- Have you looked at the faces of the singers of all colors.? I do not remember anyone commenting about looks. We cared about what the truth was. Now it is all flash to get your cash.
So Wonderful and Ironic is the lyric, "You don't have to live next to me/Just give me my equality" I would add, "Give me my fraternity, give me my LIBERTY/ give me my in-di-VAL-ITY!!!!" Like Ms. Simone, I don't give up till I have it all!
she was brave, unapologetic and her beauty came from her passion and he talent. Beauty comes in many ways.. Personally i think he face is stunning, in this video sh is to me still beautiful. Her experiences in life and her need to stand up for black people in America was exhausting. it is incredible she was not shot by officials, she pissed them off a lot. She stuck up for her brothers and sisters both black and white. But she was black and what was going on and had been going on in american history with regards to black people was atrocious. As a woman in that time, she was a leader among the other women who did not shrink the power of whit man with guns and rape to control she spoke out. But she had a gentle and sensual side. You only have to listen to her vast array of songs and how she sang them. But she was scarred by the pain and deaths of her many black friends. she was highly intelligent and very direct. Yes sometimes she was very challenging and unpleasant. But she was also charming warm and kind. like all of us we have many faces and aspects to our personality. She had not filter, she said it as it was for her. I admire her for that. in fact for me she soothed my soul, she empowered me as a human and as a woman. she helped me cry and laugh and feel....bless her soul and i am very grateful for her life...
All jazz singers come from hard childhoods and/or live dangerously. Most use drugs and alcohol, which usually kills them. Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Amy Winehouse, Billie Holiday, etc all experienced traumatic events in their life, which they transformed into writing and then music. True artists.
Nina inspires me, and her talent and rawness is a fire that will never go out, a spark strong enough to continue to connect and make people feel after being gone for so long is as much amazing as it is still a miracle. I pray I can even bring half my experience out to express it in a way that it resonates with and inspires others, I believe I'd be satisfied.
Amo y admiro a esta mujer. Ha sufrido por ella y por su gente y ha sido capaz de construir con la música, una militancia permanente por el bien de los demás. Además nos ha regalado su arte, en el piano y en la voz. No pudo ser concertista clásica que era lo que más quería pero igual nos dejó su alma hermosa.
Nina is a genius and most geniuses are troubled deeply it's plain to see with nina.she sings her hurt and troubles she drifts away her facial expressions are powerful she's misunderstood as we all know if you talk about and sing about political issues your an outcast in your art and private life.sinead O'Connor' is treated the same but I think if you stay true to yourself and your music that will hopefully bring you peace.god bless you Nina😘it's still so sad that mental health illness is still stigma in 2017 it's criminal let's open our minds and show more compassion🙄
Oh my. She said/played/sang her life in a time when only a few could voice the injustice. I wonder who she would have been today, raised in a more moderate time and place? no one will ever know . . . .just because of the color of her skin :(
A lot of times the measure of if you are a Goddess or God is of how much comes out of your mouth 👄 is palatable to people. We live in a world of word police and hurt feelings, so much so, the truth in it can never be heard. I love Queen Nina because she never cared what people said, thought, and she always told the truth. So of course, since there is a mention of mental health now all of a sudden every interview or anything she does is clouded with questions of her sanity. This is simply a tactic to minimize the truth that oozed like honey from her lips. The realest artist, ever. The woman didn’t take no shit. And to be honest these rock legends that you love so much and worship that mimicked and carbon copied her performance style and antics you see nothing wrong with them. Behold one of the creators of all that. Respect it enough to give her credit for being an innovator and creator. But even if you don’t you can’t take it away from her. Most of us will all be relegated to simpletons giving our opinion of a life that was well damn lived. Much respect ✊ Queen Nina!!! Thank you for your contribution to our struggle!!
she was ahead of her time, very much, she was so passionate about life and feelings that when she was faced with another human that wasnt so much she felt frustrated.. she wanted to wake people up or have them awake before they spoke with her....if she was interested in you you knew it, if she wasnt you knew it too! she was exiled from America, that was painful for her beyond measure, she was so pissed off....her mental health began to really be stretched and some videos you see her drugged up to the eyeballs as the medication was being given it takes time for it to settle and get the right dose, i think her long time band member said she had bipolar...It wasnt recognised back in the day, so her ups and downs were put down to other things...she always said she would die at 70 years old and she did, a few days after her 70th birthday.
WHO CARES ABOUT HER AFRICAN FEATURES....THIS WOMAN MUST HAVE GONE THRU A HORRIBLE AND TORMENTED MIND BUT BECAUSE HAS AN UNATRACTIVE FACE MAKES ME THINK SOME OF YOU WHO ARE COMMENTING ON HER LOOKS NEED TO BE QUIET.....SHE HAD A STYLE OF HER OWN SHE WAS TALENTED AND SHE HAD MENTAL ILLNESS....HER DAUGHTER SUFFERED
+Nita Robinson , We are made the way God intended us to be, Beautiful. Our appearance, if compared to what the fake White standard is, is awesome. Full luscious lips (White women get botoxed to have this); rich, dark velvet or caramel skin--we come in Beautiful variance of shades). White women spend $$$ to attain a "tan"; full hips, ass, butt (White women get ass implants to their flat asses) and wonderfully strong bridged noses, not chicken or bird snouts. So, as far as this whitewashed society and as far as those Blacks who do not appreciate what we are gifted with (self-loathing), Nina was Beautiful. Its this racistass society that labels ALL people of color as being something other than acceptable to THEM. They are jealous asses. Black, Red, Brown and Yellow is Beautiful. Accept it.
+Joe leblanc. Pure consensus polls show white women is more beautiful because of racism and colorism.Also black women in the 50`s and 60`s was more married ans had the longest marriage than whites,Latinos,and Asians and that was the statistics that was taken from whites and they also found out that blacks was going to be the majority in several decades and that. was when the plan was implemented from the govorment to remove black men from the homes who in itself most blacks moved into the government house because it was bbecause it was better than an out house. Yet they dud noh supply blacks with schooling a.d equal jobs back then so theh used that to get the black man out of the home then that decided to implement drugs in to the community which destroyed the black family.So when you come with black women depend more on the hair it's bullshit because whites have to wash they hair daily or they would received lice. White women are the first set of women who set the divorced rating and government t rules in America. if white women. wore so great they marriage would have last longer being they they have few amount.t of stress compare as blacks in a country built for them. Also If. white women are the most beautiful THRY would be few ever seeing anything wrong with they body in the first place and white women would not be having as much plastic surgery.They also would not fins many who would be anorexic because white, black, Asian, Latino men would find them so attractive they they would not have the need to change anything. Also the British,French,Spanish,Dutch,Portuguese,all took part in slavery and believe in the white supremacist ways I'm believing blacks are less than and lower than dogs.yet everyone of these men from these countries had sex with the black woman.The first biracial couple in America that fought for the rights for biracial couples to be able to be together and they marriage consider legal was a white man marrying a black woman. Your whole comment stinks with the lack of truth and knowledge in history and black women and women and history of america in itself.
+Soren Aleksander In your opinion! I would put Adel or Loreena Mc Kennet against her anyday for singing voices. Amy Whitehouse, Beyonce are better. Hell I just do not think she is so good. Tracy Chapman is much better but then my opinion.
+Joe leblanc Style is imortant and the appreciation of unique and inimitable style...I don't believe that a single one of the artists you mentioned would DARE measure themselves against Nina Simone....you as a poster are simply woefully undereducated, in a way
+Soren Aleksander Well they would not but it is my opinion as i clearly stated. Would DARE? Undereducated? Not hardly. I seriously question you even had or have a clue to some of the artists i mentioned. I have said the Nina has a style similar to blues and the such and she quickly blames whites for it. I doubt many I mentioned would had said such. It is okay though as it is her history in Mississippi. Maybe you too under educated to be criticized. If you like the blues then good for you. If you do know the singers mentioned you would notice i named a wide band of styles and specialized areas so this would tell one that it was from one well versed.
+Joe leblanc When you get a chance, ASK them...as far as you, sir, you want to start and argument that is not worth having...it is YOUR criticism that is up for grabs, sir or madam....
+Soren Aleksander sure i will ask them. start an argument? No it was you that replied to start an argument and I clearly said my opinion. I said if you like her blues then good. My criticism is that I say she is not as good as the singers mentioned.
I think that she is More than a talent, she's a gift. It hurt me that she suffered many personal struggles. I believe the abuse and extreme pressures that she had to endure triggered many of her mental issues. It's not fair to dictate to another human being who they are. All people struggle to find themselves. Imagine wanting to detach from something you were told you are for the majority of your life.
Singers and musicians, especially when they are really talented, never ever are able to live happy lives nor end up doing well, and that's one of the main reasons I'm planning on giving up on my career...
+YAVIAH Many of the greatest artists suffer from mental illnesses. Art and mental illnesses go hand in hand. It makes sense because their brains conjures up things that break barriers. So in these cases, yes they do suffer but it is also a way for them to ground and focus that energy. The other part of the business is that it is highly competitive and most artists aren't business savvy because their interest is in their art not in making the buck. It is a very tough life but it also does give back as well. In the end, each person has to decide for themselves.
SHE REMINDS ME OF A WOMAN WHO KICKED ME. SHE USE TO GO THOUGH MY RECORD WHEN I WAS ON MY BREAK. SHE WAS FROM AFRICA. SHE WOULD ASK ME IF I HAD NINA SIMONE. I NEVER BRING GOOD VINLYN IN THE PRESENCE OF HATERS :/
RevucumberTechUSA she was definitely American. I met her many years ago. I seem to recall that she was from the south, but others would know that better than I. I do know that she told me that her secret ingredient for making a good chicken soup, was to put a teaspoon? or tablespoon? of peanut butter. She was an elegant, and humble lady.
Jerome Gage Jr. to tell you the truth, i was amazed to have actually met her. i was living in a yoga ashram in pennsylvania, and she had sponsored an indian swami to visit/maybe stay with us. she stayed for a week. can you imagine? hardly anyone even knew who she was. i was one of the few. she actually sang a song just for me.. she sang "long and winding road". i think i held my breath the whole time. we were alone in the house at the time, and i didn't realize she was singing just for me. i thought she was singing cause she felt like it. i didn't go over to the piano, because i wanted to give her privacy. we had gone swimming in a lake, and shared hot cocoa. it is chilling to remember. i wish i could say more. we did go out for coffee with the ashram guru. and i know she was not that happy. the ashram guru read her palm, and she was having a problem with a man. which is too bad, because whatever the problem, she deserved the best. i send you regards on the cyber plane, and a thank you for giving me a chance to relive this moment.
Jerome Gage Jr. Jerome Gage Jr. to tell you the truth, i was amazed to have actually met her. i was living in a yoga ashram in pennsylvania, and she had sponsored an indian swami to visit/maybe stay with us. she stayed for a week. can you imagine? hardly anyone even knew who she was. i was one of the few. she actually sang a song just for me.. she sang "long and winding road". i think i held my breath the whole time. we were alone in the house at the time, and i didn't realize she was singing just for me. i thought she was singing cause she felt like it. i didn't go over to the piano, because i wanted to give her privacy. we had gone swimming in a lake, and shared hot cocoa. it is chilling to remember. i wish i could say more. we did go out for coffee with the ashram guru. and i know she was not that happy. the ashram guru read her palm, and she was having a problem with a man. which is too bad, because whatever the problem, she deserved the best. i send you regards on the cyber plane, and a thank you for giving me a chance to relive this moment.
I love Nina Simone, but that fake accent always cracks me up. No one from a neighborhood in North Carolina sounds like that. She Eartha Kitt-erized your voice.
perhaps it's a sign of a great deal of travel. so many blacks went to Europe. once immersed in any culture so long...you will absorb just about everything - learning how to cook, etc.
+Starr King To someone?? WOW that does not say she is anything but unattractive to be kind. I came here because I never heard of her and now i know. She has singing ability but that ends there and she is deeply hateful if you listen and watch her motions. I understand being from her background but still it is obvious.
+Joe leblanc So,that's why....Well I don't have to do that because my grandparents hated white people too. A lot was done to them, and that something you just not gonna understand.
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Nina Simone made it very clear that her “job as a singer is to tell Blacks that Blackness, Black power and Black culture are from civilizations of unmatched beauty but we just don’t know it, and I will educate Blacks by whatever means necessary”.
The very darkness of Simone’s skin and her distinctly African features defined both her music and her politics. Therefore, to portray her in the way of (Zoe Saldana's "Nina") is nothing short of criminal, it is a tone-deaf gross whitewashing of unapologetic Blackness.
+bandwagon22 .....Nina had lived a lot of life by 1984. I thought she was quit attractive times before then.
Yes.
+bandwagon22 Sorry but she and beauty should not be in the same sentence.
+Mayakahla Ach I think she quit be attractive when she was born!!
+Joe leblanc You must have been the most beautiful baby in the world.
She reminds me of what the word "purpose" means for my life. We all have a purpose. Sometimes we need reminders. She is so inspiring.
SHE was strong, and mindful, and intense. A lot of people would still shrink away from the heat of that woman.
love the way you describe..."the heat of that woman."
Libby MicMic i think she was bipolar.
iwasborntobefly she has been deprived humiliated bullied violated & so mistreated !!!! this fire is not from her and is far to be a disease !! so by god's grace think before labeling & diagnosis !!!!!! ; you & your ''judgement'' your words are insulting/ Attacking her , heart & soul and such legacy . she stands up with one face !!! with such courage & bravour & strength
+Gachitadamunga Apparently Sidney Poitier was one of them....would avoid her like the plague. In my opinion, that says a lot....
her accent...the way she enunciates her words,...her articulation....her poise.....everything about her exudes class. i wish i could have a conversation with her. she is full of deep meaning.
She transcends class.
May she Rest in Peace. She was simply the 3 B's beautiful, brave and brilliant.
I actually never heard any of her music until today. Someone sent me her documentary and I was in aw of her talent and statements. So much so, that I just googled a few of her interview. Her rise and fall was sad, but brilliant! I also like the fact that she goes in and out of accents. One minute she sounds french, the next just a regular voice. Lol
billionkek I didn't want mention her accent for fear of offending some but I was puzzled by it as it sounded French and British at times. I thought she was raised in the US. A true genius though and very intelligent.
Her accent came from attending school In France and she resided in France as well for many years. She Died in Carry-le-Rouet, France
RIP master Nina, many have come after you but NOT many can fill your shoes!!!
I was honored to be at close to one of her last live performances in Newark, NJ when I was just out of college....I'll never forget her saying after she brought the lights down over the audience, "The world is not JUST in here. It's OUT there. And the reason I'm here, and you're here too, is not do the IN/OUT...."
Nina, your music is just about some of the purist, highest music I've ever heard... Thank You!
That LIVE mix of Alabama Song and Mississippi Goddam is insane!
Nina Simone what an incredible beautiful black woman, so inspiring
The great Nina Simone encompassed dignity, elegance and poise and seemed to me to embody and cry out about the misery and pain of her people. What a tremendous Artist,Advocate and Lady. Go West Mama Nina
Nina is as real as a musician can be. A true musician, a true icon, a true legend. Every song makes me feel the pain she's been through and the love she has for music. Nowadays we musician as fake as plastic, it's sad!
Nina like some many of her peers were all about their craft and music!
I love Nina's features .
These kinds of people only come to the earth ever so often. They aren't sent or born everyday. I am glad that I knew of her. I feel her through the music. Not the music or the instrument or the mechanics of modern day music studios and artistry. But you connect with her. And she was real. A real person, a real artist. A rare angelic Goddess.
Although I see her as herself,, she puts me in mind of Maya Angelou sometime as she speaks. She also kind of brings me to mind of modern spirit image of Miss India Arie.
I met her many years ago. She was American. I seem to recall that she was from the south, but others would know that better than I. I do know that she told me that her secret ingredient for making a good chicken soup, was to put a teaspoon? or tablespoon? of peanut butter. She was an elegant, and humble lady.
You are lucky
Vicky Sabato lol why does every video have some fake story about a personal experience with the artist just to get likes.
I've had the fortune of meeting a lot of important and popular people but there is no reason I would have to tell the world about my insignificant run in with a celebrity.
I guess they just like the likes. Why? Lol
She sang a lot of what she saw others ignoring. Injustice always breeds songs . I like her style . I respect her heart .
Looks --- Have you looked at the faces of the singers of all colors.? I do not remember anyone commenting about looks.
We cared about what the truth was. Now it is all flash to get your cash.
I'm so glad I was introduced to her years ago... I Love Her... Nina Simone Beautiful Spirit
Very Appealing and Intriguing as always Dr Simone is here ! Brilliance Personified Merci🎹
So Wonderful and Ironic is the lyric, "You don't have to live next to me/Just give me my equality" I would add, "Give me my fraternity, give me my LIBERTY/ give me my in-di-VAL-ITY!!!!" Like Ms. Simone, I don't give up till I have it all!
She is a queen of🎼🎤🎤
she was brave, unapologetic and her beauty came from her passion and he talent. Beauty comes in many ways.. Personally i think he face is stunning, in this video sh is to me still beautiful. Her experiences in life and her need to stand up for black people in America was exhausting. it is incredible she was not shot by officials, she pissed them off a lot. She stuck up for her brothers and sisters both black and white. But she was black and what was going on and had been going on in american history with regards to black people was atrocious. As a woman in that time, she was a leader among the other women who did not shrink the power of whit man with guns and rape to control she spoke out. But she had a gentle and sensual side. You only have to listen to her vast array of songs and how she sang them. But she was scarred by the pain and deaths of her many black friends. she was highly intelligent and very direct. Yes sometimes she was very challenging and unpleasant. But she was also charming warm and kind. like all of us we have many faces and aspects to our personality. She had not filter, she said it as it was for her. I admire her for that. in fact for me she soothed my soul, she empowered me as a human and as a woman. she helped me cry and laugh and feel....bless her soul and i am very grateful for her life...
I love how she was brave enough to say that she was a "space child" and stated that only certain people would know what she meant by that!
All jazz singers come from hard childhoods and/or live dangerously. Most use drugs and alcohol, which usually kills them. Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Amy Winehouse, Billie Holiday, etc all experienced traumatic events in their life, which they transformed into writing and then music. True artists.
bcos good music comes from pain
She's my inspiration like you still watching in 2018 this interview is 33 years ago the year I was born.and it feels like yesterday she lives on...
I love her African features
Malc B what features of hers are african?
Yes
Nina inspires me, and her talent and rawness is a fire that will never go out, a spark strong enough to continue to connect and make people feel after being gone for so long is as much amazing as it is still a miracle. I pray I can even bring half my experience out to express it in a way that it resonates with and inspires others, I believe I'd be satisfied.
the music industry misses NINA, the master
I agree I only learn of her `2 days ago I was listening to Armstrong and holiday and God lead me to her the advocate for her people's
no words...she is magnificent!!
Thanks so much for compiling and posting this. Just amazing.
Nina Simone.Raw unparalleled beautiful talent.
Nina Simone's interview for BBCs Hard Talk, 1999 (Complete)
Setting the record straight.
Wow! Simply intriguing!
Amo y admiro a esta mujer. Ha sufrido por ella y por su gente y ha sido capaz de construir con la música, una militancia permanente por el bien de los demás. Además nos ha regalado su arte, en el piano y en la voz. No pudo ser concertista clásica que era lo que más quería pero igual nos dejó su alma hermosa.
The last minute of this is brilliant.
Thank you so much for this
love and miss you nina
powerful
Never give up if you have a talent... Never! We have got talents which supposed to be expanded :))))))
+Liyana M . Amen
+Liyana M 👍
I'm watching Nina right now. Zoe is doing a great job.
She just comes from God is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard her say. This woman amazes me.
Unbelievable energy!
Nina Simone ! Agradeço a D-us pela sua passagem pelo planeta TERRA ! I love you !
I'm listening and I understand
Fascinating. I had no idea how much of a real technical specialist in sound she was.
Sensaciiiiiiional!!!
I love you Nina❤️
a wonderful artist is the reflect of his time
"I don't belong here I don't belong there infact I've stop believing in prayer......"
Nina is a genius and most geniuses are troubled deeply it's plain to see with nina.she sings her hurt and troubles she drifts away her facial expressions are powerful she's misunderstood as we all know if you talk about and sing about political issues your an outcast in your art and private life.sinead O'Connor' is treated the same but I think if you stay true to yourself and your music that will hopefully bring you peace.god bless you Nina😘it's still so sad that mental health illness is still stigma in 2017 it's criminal let's open our minds and show more compassion🙄
I love her voice 🎤🎹
Great interview. Thank you LukeK79!
Nina talks here like James Baldwin. Is it me or she sounds like him?
Oh my.
She said/played/sang her life in a time when only a few could voice the injustice.
I wonder who she would have been today, raised in a more moderate time and place?
no one will ever know . . . .just because of the color of her skin :(
My heroine
She sounds so soft but so vital and intelligent
A lot of times the measure of if you are a Goddess or God is of how much comes out of your mouth 👄 is palatable to people. We live in a world of word police and hurt feelings, so much so, the truth in it can never be heard. I love Queen Nina because she never cared what people said, thought, and she always told the truth.
So of course, since there is a mention of mental health now all of a sudden every interview or anything she does is clouded with questions of her sanity. This is simply a tactic to minimize the truth that oozed like honey from her lips. The realest artist, ever. The woman didn’t take no shit. And to be honest these rock legends that you love so much and worship that mimicked and carbon copied her performance style and antics you see nothing wrong with them.
Behold one of the creators of all that. Respect it enough to give her credit for being an innovator and creator. But even if you don’t you can’t take it away from her. Most of us will all be relegated to simpletons giving our opinion of a life that was well damn lived.
Much respect ✊ Queen Nina!!! Thank you for your contribution to our struggle!!
She looks and sounds exactly like James Baldwin.
It must have been cool to talk like that back then
she was ahead of her time, very much, she was so passionate about life and feelings that when she was faced with another human that wasnt so much she felt frustrated.. she wanted to wake people up or have them awake before they spoke with her....if she was interested in you you knew it, if she wasnt you knew it too! she was exiled from America, that was painful for her beyond measure, she was so pissed off....her mental health began to really be stretched and some videos you see her drugged up to the eyeballs as the medication was being given it takes time for it to settle and get the right dose, i think her long time band member said she had bipolar...It wasnt recognised back in the day, so her ups and downs were put down to other things...she always said she would die at 70 years old and she did, a few days after her 70th birthday.
Nina Simone is a master.
Gift from GOD! I agree
Pretty odd lady. Extremely talented.
+XforeverlongingX she was sick at this time .. she wasnt odd .. misunderstood
Class
WHO CARES ABOUT HER AFRICAN FEATURES....THIS WOMAN MUST HAVE GONE THRU A HORRIBLE AND TORMENTED MIND BUT BECAUSE HAS AN UNATRACTIVE FACE MAKES ME THINK SOME OF YOU WHO ARE COMMENTING ON HER LOOKS NEED TO BE QUIET.....SHE HAD A STYLE OF HER OWN SHE WAS TALENTED AND SHE HAD MENTAL ILLNESS....HER DAUGHTER SUFFERED
+Nita Robinson Her style is playing head games and switching , Clinton does the same. Woman fall for it.
+Joe leblanc , Shut the fuck up.
Joe leblanc it's odvious you and I will agree to disagree .I'll leave it. No more to be said.
+Nita Robinson , We are made the way God intended us to be, Beautiful. Our appearance, if compared to what the fake White standard is, is awesome. Full luscious lips (White women get botoxed to have this); rich, dark velvet or caramel skin--we come in Beautiful variance of shades). White women spend $$$ to attain a "tan"; full hips, ass, butt (White women get ass implants to their flat asses) and wonderfully strong bridged noses, not chicken or bird snouts.
So, as far as this whitewashed society and as far as those Blacks who do not appreciate what we are gifted with (self-loathing), Nina was Beautiful. Its this racistass society that labels ALL people of color as being something other than acceptable to THEM. They are jealous asses. Black, Red, Brown and Yellow is Beautiful. Accept it.
+Joe leblanc. Pure consensus polls show white women is more beautiful because of racism and colorism.Also black women in the 50`s and 60`s was more married ans had the longest marriage than whites,Latinos,and Asians and that was the statistics that was taken from whites and they also found out that blacks was going to be the majority in several decades and that. was when the plan was implemented from the govorment to remove black men from the homes who in itself most blacks moved into the government house because it was bbecause it was better than an out house. Yet they dud noh supply blacks with schooling a.d equal jobs back then so theh used that to get the black man out of the home then that decided to implement drugs in to the community which destroyed the black family.So when you come with black women depend more on the hair it's bullshit because whites have to wash they hair daily or they would received lice. White women are the first set of women who set the divorced rating and government t rules in America. if white women. wore so great they marriage would have last longer being they they have few amount.t of stress compare as blacks in a country built for them. Also If. white women are the most beautiful THRY would be few ever seeing anything wrong with they body in the first place and white women would not be having as much plastic surgery.They also would not fins many who would be anorexic because white, black, Asian, Latino men would find them so attractive they they would not have the need to change anything. Also the British,French,Spanish,Dutch,Portuguese,all took part in slavery and believe in the white supremacist ways I'm believing blacks are less than and lower than dogs.yet everyone of these men from these countries had sex with the black woman.The first biracial couple in America that fought for the rights for biracial couples to be able to be together and they marriage consider legal was a white man marrying a black woman. Your whole comment stinks with the lack of truth and knowledge in history and black women and women and history of america in itself.
Nina is a Master too..
NINA YA A MESS IN A DAMN GOOD Way ,,woe. Love ya,, 4 sho. RIP.
The closest thing to God is Music...or Art in the True Form
+Soren Aleksander In your opinion! I would put Adel or Loreena Mc Kennet against her anyday for singing voices. Amy Whitehouse, Beyonce are better. Hell I just do not think she is so good. Tracy Chapman is much better but then my opinion.
+Joe leblanc Style is imortant and the appreciation of unique and inimitable style...I don't believe that a single one of the artists you mentioned would DARE measure themselves against Nina Simone....you as a poster are simply woefully undereducated, in a way
+Soren Aleksander Well they would not but it is my opinion as i clearly stated. Would DARE? Undereducated? Not hardly. I seriously question you even had or have a clue to some of the artists i mentioned. I have said the Nina has a style similar to blues and the such and she quickly blames whites for it. I doubt many I mentioned would had said such. It is okay though as it is her history in Mississippi. Maybe you too under educated to be criticized. If you like the blues then good for you. If you do know the singers mentioned you would notice i named a wide band of styles and specialized areas so this would tell one that it was from one well versed.
+Joe leblanc When you get a chance, ASK them...as far as you, sir, you want to start and argument that is not worth having...it is YOUR criticism that is up for grabs, sir or madam....
+Soren Aleksander sure i will ask them. start an argument? No it was you that replied to start an argument and I clearly said my opinion. I said if you like her blues then good. My criticism is that I say she is not as good as the singers mentioned.
simply IF (INTERNALLY FLAWLESS)....
she Gt. the best there is
I think that she is
More than a talent, she's a gift. It hurt me that she suffered many personal struggles. I believe the abuse and extreme pressures that she had to endure triggered many of her mental issues. It's not fair to dictate to another human being who they are. All people struggle to find themselves. Imagine wanting to detach from something you were told you are for the majority of your life.
Singers and musicians, especially when they are really talented, never ever are able to live happy lives nor end up doing well, and that's one of the main reasons I'm planning on giving up on my career...
A talent is given to us not by accident
+YAVIAH It can seem that way....but there are many exceptions.
Lol this guy ..
What about your fans El Gato?
+YAVIAH Many of the greatest artists suffer from mental illnesses. Art and mental illnesses go hand in hand. It makes sense because their brains conjures up things that break barriers. So in these cases, yes they do suffer but it is also a way for them to ground and focus that energy. The other part of the business is that it is highly competitive and most artists aren't business savvy because their interest is in their art not in making the buck. It is a very tough life but it also does give back as well. In the end, each person has to decide for themselves.
she was a very flamboyant transgender , brilliant and beautiful musician
Bell heir she’s not a transgender, that is a real woman.
Geniuses are tortured Souls...
wow
you could tell from her voice that she was deteriorating mentally. musical genius nonetheless.
+exene c I agree she is mentally breaking down.
This is not mental deterioration sir, this is what is called a southern dialect.
+cj grant she lived in many places including Barbados and Europe so her accent is all over the place
+cj grant True
LOL... a "southern dialect" mixed in with british affect and what she thought sounded like a french accent, etc.
Does someone know the name of the song she's singing on 3:44???
mississippi goddamn
SHE REMINDS ME OF A WOMAN WHO KICKED ME. SHE USE TO GO THOUGH MY RECORD WHEN I WAS ON MY BREAK. SHE WAS FROM AFRICA. SHE WOULD ASK ME IF I HAD NINA SIMONE. I NEVER BRING GOOD VINLYN IN THE PRESENCE OF HATERS :/
Stirring. Dig.
Bach was tha MASTA" :)
Was she African?
she was black. so I think so
RevucumberTechUSA she was definitely American. I met her many years ago. I seem to recall that she was from the south, but others would know that better than I. I do know that she told me that her secret ingredient for making a good chicken soup, was to put a teaspoon? or tablespoon? of peanut butter. She was an elegant, and humble lady.
Vicky Sabato wowww that's so cool. She seems like she would be an amazing sweet humble lady. I love love love her music.
Jerome Gage Jr. to tell you the truth, i was amazed to have actually met her. i was living in a yoga ashram in pennsylvania, and she had sponsored an indian swami to visit/maybe stay with us. she stayed for a week. can you imagine? hardly anyone even knew who she was. i was one of the few. she actually sang a song just for me.. she sang "long and winding road". i think i held my breath the whole time. we were alone in the house at the time, and i didn't realize she was singing just for me. i thought she was singing cause she felt like it. i didn't go over to the piano, because i wanted to give her privacy. we had gone swimming in a lake, and shared hot cocoa. it is chilling to remember. i wish i could say more. we did go out for coffee with the ashram guru. and i know she was not that happy. the ashram guru read her palm, and she was having a problem with a man. which is too bad, because whatever the problem, she deserved the best. i send you regards on the cyber plane, and a thank you for giving me a chance to relive this moment.
Jerome Gage Jr. Jerome Gage Jr. to tell you the truth, i was amazed to have actually met her. i was living in a yoga ashram in pennsylvania, and she had sponsored an indian swami to visit/maybe stay with us. she stayed for a week. can you imagine? hardly anyone even knew who she was. i was one of the few. she actually sang a song just for me.. she sang "long and winding road". i think i held my breath the whole time. we were alone in the house at the time, and i didn't realize she was singing just for me. i thought she was singing cause she felt like it. i didn't go over to the piano, because i wanted to give her privacy. we had gone swimming in a lake, and shared hot cocoa. it is chilling to remember. i wish i could say more. we did go out for coffee with the ashram guru. and i know she was not that happy. the ashram guru read her palm, and she was having a problem with a man. which is too bad, because whatever the problem, she deserved the best. i send you regards on the cyber plane, and a thank you for giving me a chance to relive this moment.
I love Nina Simone, but that fake accent always cracks me up. No one from a neighborhood in North Carolina sounds like that. She Eartha Kitt-erized your voice.
perhaps it's a sign of a great deal of travel. so many blacks went to Europe. once immersed in any culture so long...you will absorb just about everything - learning how to cook, etc.
Eddie Styles she moved to AfRahKa where she picked up the accent #Research is more credible than opinions.
Eddie Styles She learned correct English pronunciation
Eddie Styles
Small minded Eddie!
wow talk about un attrctive, glad she has something going for her! Not looks.
well she was beautiful to somebody,but yet you clicked to watch....Things that make you go hmmmmm
+Starr King To someone?? WOW that does not say she is anything but unattractive to be kind. I came here because I never heard of her and now i know. She has singing ability but that ends there and she is deeply hateful if you listen and watch her motions. I understand being from her background but still it is obvious.
Hmmm,you feel she is hateful....how so?
The motion thing,I really don't get what you mean by that.
+Starr King Maybe from other videos where she is talking stories and such she openly says her hate for whites. Check other sites.
+Joe leblanc So,that's why....Well I don't have to do that because my grandparents hated white people too. A lot was done to them, and that something you just not gonna understand.