I tell everyone that she was first and foremost a classically trained pianist. Not a jazz pianist or jazz singer. She wanted to be the best black classical pianist in the world and was robbed of the opportunity because of her skin colour. She gave us everything whilst sacrificing her own dreams and sanity.
Nina's frustrations here are completely justified! If she suffered from as bipolar or through depression are a separate issue to what is being discussed in the interview.
I saw nor heard no evidence of weakness mentally or physically here. Her statements here are evidence of her unflinching honesty-- no shame; PURE NINA. Nina was calm and poised. She expressed herself well and said what I agree she wanted to project . She looks very nice here as well. She is not just speaking to Mavis, but to those whom it applies. This grand being is hurt and should not have been in that predicament.......she had paid her dues and satisfied millions. Nina needed and deserved her wealth, PERIOD.
No one is listening... What happened to her money? THIS is the question the interviewer should be asking. This is what she is trying to say... she had great records that made a lot of money, but was not being paid for them. She did NOT laugh when she was talking about her money. BiPolar does not mean you can't count.
She said her will to live is what keeps her creating the music, even though she is not getting her just compensation for her God Giving Gift. And what a Colossal Gift it is. It saddens me seeing that look on her face of such sadness, even though she was about to do what she loves and which gives those who truly appreciate it so much happiness.
Thank you for sharing I am learning of her thru her interviews I was listening to Armstrong and holiday and what a beautiful women positive and a advocate
When she said '' I have enormous will' That is THE TRUTH behind the survival of every living black person on this planet. Thats what keeps us going when they try to take what we deserve in this life and try to bring us to our knees. We survive everything even when they try to kill us because of our ENORMOUS WILL. Been listening to NINA these past few days and i just have to say she blows me away everytime she speak. And i am here to listen.....
So many took and took from this goddess and gave her little to nothing in return. She spoke openly about just wanting to go back to a house and not her apartment and to simply pay off on her mums house and the interview went on basically sweeping he dust under the carpet. Powerful minded women are usually destroyed they become a threat because of the truths they speak.
She was done wrong She was black listed She got caught up in the Civil Rights Movement and when everyone left died killed she was all alone with all that evergy,but everyone was gone, then she got everybody's back You can't be singer and a civil rights activist I love her music, I love her style I was a child during the height of her career It's sad, the Blak experience is sad❣
I immigrated to the USA 2011 and lived in a condo for about 6 months and I told my husband the same thing she said in this interview I can't live in a condo and be limited with the hours I played in my piano just because I need to have the freedom and the space to play my piano, anytime I want to. The same thing she said about I need a steinway piano in my house not a condo. Fast forward, I never have any idea who is Nina Simone until John Legend sang her song during the inauguration and listening this interview is so real for me I get where she is coming from with her music.
She is usually a very good interviewer but the situation was awkward, just supposed to be a few questions in the middle of a performance. If you look at some of her other interviews you will see how good she was.
I am looking a paper fo graduate school, counseling, on Nina Simone and her struggles with life, marginalization, and mental health issues. I can relate to her.
Nina es un espíritu y un alma dentro de un cuerpo, que maltrataron, lo dice claro, necesita dinero para vivir!!!! Y estaba cansada de actuar todas las noches en nightclubs, cuando debería estar en grandes espacios xq era y será grandiosa e inigualable!! Love!!!
Why do they ask these questions about being tired? It is so obvious why she would be exhausted by the injustice aimed at her during that time. And when she answers their questions with honest details they can't handle the truth apparently because the interviewer just laughs in response which is so disrespectful. I am so annoyed by how their questions are used to provoke her emotionally. In my opinion, I think Nina Simone said too much about her pain. Because racist media thrives on the pain of powerful, talented, influential Black women. Yvette M.
Nina should have in no way, shape, or form should have been asking of anything..her music and songs spoke for themselves..the industry should have totally been ashamed but I'm sure they wasn't..so sad..a beautiful person inside and out..the iij industry sux..NINA LIVES ON...
I think from reading some of the comments people are a bit uncomfortable watching this, as she comes across a certain way, almost as though every word is painful to release from her mouth but that internal struggle, confusion and fight to find answers is where her energy and brilliance comes from, she's not someone to pity she's someone to admire, hopefully she came to see over the following years that her brilliance was recognised and valued by so many.
Nina: “I have enormous will... I live on my will” Stupid Response: “I’m glad you live on your will and I’m gla-go back and listen to some more songs you’re going to sing for us” Me : 😑😑😑 Her words were way too real for the audience and even interviewer to handle.
I believe new worldwide courts should institute change in the laws on purchases of songs and albums from the artist. If the purchaser makes any profits a certain percentage is given back to the artist artists or artist families. If there isn't any family the monies must go to towards music education for children ... thanks for the clip...
It's clear no one listened to her heart even though they heard her music. These labels that get misplaced can be so detrimental. I see no bi-polarism. I hear and see a woman who knew her worth and fought to maintain her dignity without proper management and compensation for her work.
Did Nina Simone eventually get those things she wanted does anyone know, please? ~ it's like she says, they are what people think of as part for the course of a successful entertainers life, aren't they. I so hope you did, and that she got decades to enjoy them. 💖 Beautiful, talented, genuine lady.
She sadly passed away relatively young at the age of 70, and while I don't think she had nearly the amount of money that she was owed, I believe she lived relatively comfortably by the end. The same university that rejected her scholarship all those years ago on account of her being black, which kick started her fight for civil rights, actually did grant her an honorary doctorate just a few years before she died, and she was very insistent that people refer to her as "Doctor Nina Simone!" haha So at least she had that closure, that her initial chance in life which was owed to her, was returned in the end. All we can do in the end is remember Nina's story as an example of injustice in the world, and fight against the exploitation of artists and people in the present and in the future
I found this heart breaking, i have not known about her past or her career but obviously i knew as a black artist she would not have had it as good as she truly deserved and seeing video was shocking.
I wish for Nina is a type of peace with acceptance of her situation. She is a contraindicated when she says she loves to play and gets love from that. But where is the self love. Only we can do that. She was obviously ripped off by the people who controlled her money. But no one came to her aid. She feels betrayed and she was. The truth is in the details, I would like to know who,what and How this occured. She needs rest and to take care of herself. I hope she finds peace. And if any of the vultures around are gone. She has to protect and preserve what is left of her music. And gets her fair share of money. You here this alot with musicians being ripped off by those they employ to handle their finances. A lesson to all musicians out their. This is a greedy world. The do not have the talent of the musician but they are narcissistic and egotistical. And if they can be a creator, they will manipulate the creative one and take their money. A warning to all the young creators of art and music.but I think the Beyonce's of today's world have got much more power and control and autonomy. But talent like Roberta does not exist as much today.
The interviewer didn't get Nina at all ! Nina wanted to be set up comfortable from all her hard work and great creative output as she should have been !! Can you think of any artist more deserving ?
That white womannn! Nina's look at the end of the interview said it all! She couldn't comprehend anything... So cold yet pretending to be human... Lol the caucasian curse.
Oh shut up, Mavis was an excellent interviewer. I know it's in your interest to vilify every white person there is but at the end of the day, that just makes you paranoid and insecure in yourself.
Mavis Nicholson was a great journalist and interviewer but British TV in the 70's was a very stiff and formal affair. Also, as a serious femail interviewer Mavis was a rarity and would be up against her own set of restrictions and expectations. However, it's really shockingly to here such a great, great artist being so under appreciated.
@@DeepScreenAnalysis Yes, because one comment means you know that the original commenter does that on a regular basis. Everyone gets mad but nobody sits down and reads.
The plight of a black talented woman. Never respected. Til this day. People can have millions of followers, making money with no talent, dying their skin, plumping their lips and filling their asses to look like black women but the black woman who is a gift from God, full of love, integrity and talent has to beg for her money. Its pure disrespect. Its tiring. Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Nina didn't have a house??? The industry did this woman wrong. There are UA-cam "creators" who have MANSIONS, and one of the greatest musicians ever didn't have a house???
Whhhoooooaaaaa White Lady: so what that you sold millions of albums in your poor, you can get your love in recognition from the fact that the audience loves you. You say you're tired, but you're here singing your song so well and full of life. Nina: I need a vacation, I need the money owed to me, and I'm not up here singing and shucking and jiving happily for you... I'm singing my sorrows and pain on my last will to live. Yuuuuuuppp. That about sums it up.
Sebastien Bernard My sentiments entirely. One of the most amazing voices with more talent than we're ever likely too see again. Makes me sad to see interviews of her like this one.
"I'm tired of begging for it." such a raw statement, I love that.
Suusß
18 years of classical training is no small achievement. She was a Bach enthusiastic. God bless her soul!
I tell everyone that she was first and foremost a classically trained pianist. Not a jazz pianist or jazz singer.
She wanted to be the best black classical pianist in the world and was robbed of the opportunity because of her skin colour. She gave us everything whilst sacrificing her own dreams and sanity.
She deserved a house 😞😞 a place to call home!!! I have so much admiration for her..
i think she found it in the south of france in the end but she was still robbed blind
Quite a candid interview, love it when the moderator asked her "Don't you get love from your audience? and Nina replied "Yes i do but i need $$ too"
keithchanner my fav part lol i love her so much totally sane!!
Everything that she said makes sense.... This happened to many black artist during that time....
StÍll does!
Artists in general. It happened across racial lines
Nina's look of disgust at the end of the interview is priceless.
Nina's frustrations here are completely justified! If she suffered from as bipolar or through depression are a separate issue to what is being discussed in the interview.
Her aura and talent cannot be described in words they live on through her music. R.I.P
I live on my will! What a WOMAN!!
I saw nor heard no evidence of weakness mentally or physically here. Her statements here are evidence of her unflinching honesty-- no shame; PURE NINA. Nina was calm and poised. She expressed herself well and said what I agree she wanted to project . She looks very nice here as well. She is not just speaking to Mavis, but to those whom it applies. This grand being is hurt and should not have been in that predicament.......she had paid her dues and satisfied millions. Nina needed and deserved her wealth, PERIOD.
Very well analyzed
Truth.
I agree
@@AprilCampbell Thank You!
@@sharonhendrix7496 Thank You!
Prince, Michael Jackson, and TLC spoke to these same issues! She is the Truth! She is saying what is Real!
And 2Pac
Give her daughter the money that is owed to Nina!!!!!
Eric Morgan her daughter is a loser for speaking ill against her in the Netflix documentary
Yes I agree she suffered
FelineFokus What? She experienced being with her mother for years. How is it speaking ill of her mother when she’s telling the truth?
Yes indeed!
“are you restless”
“no i’m just tired”
I Love her accent ,, She is an inspiration, ,, RIP NINA, I LOVE U ❤ 💙 💚 💜 💓
''I have enormous Will. I live on my will."
Sol Mer KaBa Akoma i
IMO the greatest pure talent ever and the most formidable woman of the century
No one is listening... What happened to her money? THIS is the question the interviewer should be asking. This is what she is trying to say... she had great records that made a lot of money, but was not being paid for them. She did NOT laugh when she was talking about her money. BiPolar does not mean you can't count.
Stacey McClain regardless of the money she was mentally ill, two seperate issues
Her Albums are still making Money today November 2018, and will forever make Money until the end of time.
Regardless if she was mentally ill or not she worked but she had no money and no home she clearly stated in the interview
After she explained and the interviewer said, "I'm glad you have strong will", you could just see the sadness in her eyes.
T'anna I could see it too, it breaks my heart to have seen her wanting and needing things she deserved but couldn’t get it.
Nina said "i would love to pay off my mothers house.... Im done!"
She said her will to live is what keeps her creating the music, even though she is not getting her just compensation for her God Giving Gift. And what a Colossal Gift it is. It saddens me seeing that look on her face of such sadness, even though she was about to do what she loves and which gives those who truly appreciate it so much happiness.
You have always been regarded as a genius.what a marvelous artist.
Great musician! !! I respect every word! !!!
Thank you for sharing I am learning of her thru her interviews I was listening to Armstrong and holiday and what a beautiful women positive and a advocate
An absolute master interviewer.....All love love love to Mavis wherever you are....an absolute master of the art of interviewing...x
Everything she stated is REAL AND JUSTIFIED!!!! I WILL ALWAYS HONOR HER!
Nina Simone ! Agradeço a D-eus pela sua passagem pelo planeta TERRA ! Obrigado ! I love you !
She is so beautiful omg I just love her beauty and the way she speaks!!!!
When she said '' I have enormous will' That is THE TRUTH behind the survival of every living black person on this planet. Thats what keeps us going when they try to take what we deserve in this life and try to bring us to our knees. We survive everything even when they try to kill us because of our ENORMOUS WILL. Been listening to NINA these past few days and i just have to say she blows me away everytime she speak. And i am here to listen.....
Tremendous speaker
Brilliant woman
"I live on my WILL!" Wow!
Thanks for telling the world "Like it is" just heard it! Thanks a lot!!!
So many took and took from this goddess and gave her little to nothing in return.
She spoke openly about just wanting to go back to a house and not her apartment and to simply pay off on her mums house and the interview went on basically sweeping he dust under the carpet.
Powerful minded women are usually destroyed they become a threat because of the truths they speak.
Thank you for this.
That look at the end is priceless🌎
She was done wrong
She was black listed
She got caught up in the Civil Rights Movement and when everyone left died killed she was all alone with all that evergy,but everyone was gone, then she got everybody's back
You can't be singer and a civil rights activist
I love her music, I love her style I was a child during the height of her career
It's sad, the Blak experience is sad❣
Pure Love for Nina.
God bless the soul who intentions are good
I immigrated to the USA 2011 and lived in a condo for about 6 months and I told my husband the same thing she said in this interview I can't live in a condo and be limited with the hours I played in my piano just because I need to have the freedom and the space to play my piano, anytime I want to. The same thing she said about I need a steinway piano in my house not a condo. Fast forward, I never have any idea who is Nina Simone until John Legend sang her song during the inauguration and listening this interview is so real for me I get where she is coming from with her music.
I have enormous will. I live on my will...WOW
Legend in time
love it!!
What a uniquely talented person
God, she was gorgeous 💞🖤💚
Nina was an incredibly intelligent force 💕
The interviewer passed on an opportunity to be great! Nina gave some statements WORTH digging into and she just...missed it! #wrongerinterviewer
She is usually a very good interviewer but the situation was awkward, just supposed to be a few questions in the middle of a performance. If you look at some of her other interviews you will see how good she was.
Just "ONE" of the many greats. I loved her music and talent. Pardon me not loved I do love her.
Nina❤
I love her....
I learnt so much of my interviewing style back then by studying Mavis.
I am looking a paper fo graduate school, counseling, on Nina Simone and her struggles with life, marginalization, and mental health issues. I can relate to her.
Love you Nina
Strong woman. put up with music bizniz shit like a boss
Nina es un espíritu y un alma dentro de un cuerpo, que maltrataron, lo dice claro, necesita dinero para vivir!!!! Y estaba cansada de actuar todas las noches en nightclubs, cuando debería estar en grandes espacios xq era y será grandiosa e inigualable!! Love!!!
Why do they ask these questions about being tired? It is so obvious why she would be exhausted by the injustice aimed at her during that time. And when she answers their questions with honest details they can't handle the truth apparently because the interviewer just laughs in response which is so disrespectful. I am so annoyed by how their questions are used to provoke her emotionally. In my opinion, I think Nina Simone said too much about her pain. Because racist media thrives on the pain of powerful, talented, influential Black women. Yvette M.
Nina should have in no way, shape, or form should have been asking of anything..her music and songs spoke for themselves..the industry should have totally been ashamed but I'm sure they wasn't..so sad..a beautiful person inside and out..the iij industry sux..NINA LIVES ON...
I think from reading some of the comments people are a bit uncomfortable watching this, as she comes across a certain way, almost as though every word is painful to release from her mouth but that internal struggle, confusion and fight to find answers is where her energy and brilliance comes from, she's not someone to pity she's someone to admire, hopefully she came to see over the following years that her brilliance was recognised and valued by so many.
Nina: “I have enormous will... I live on my will”
Stupid Response: “I’m glad you live on your will and I’m gla-go back and listen to some more songs you’re going to sing for us”
Me : 😑😑😑
Her words were way too real for the audience and even interviewer to handle.
I believe new worldwide courts should institute change in the laws on purchases of songs and albums from the artist. If the purchaser makes any profits a certain percentage is given back to the artist artists or artist families. If there isn't any family the monies must go to towards music education for children ... thanks for the clip...
Angel xx
We Love you NINA SIMONE 😍 WE MISS YOU SO MUCH 😢 R . I. P 🙏🙏 HOPE ALLAH LOOK AFTER YOU 🙏
can someone tell me what year this interview was?
Nina Simone, no description other than "Superstar"
It's clear no one listened to her heart even though they heard her music. These labels that get misplaced can be so detrimental. I see no bi-polarism. I hear and see a woman who knew her worth and fought to maintain her dignity without proper management and compensation for her work.
I live on my will
😍😍😍😍😍😍
Now I understand why Aretha Franklin got her money the way she did.
How did she get her money? If I may ask?
im glad you live on your will-mavis
Did Nina Simone eventually get those things she wanted does anyone know, please? ~ it's like she says, they are what people think of as part for the course of a successful entertainers life, aren't they. I so hope you did, and that she got decades to enjoy them. 💖 Beautiful, talented, genuine lady.
She sadly passed away relatively young at the age of 70, and while I don't think she had nearly the amount of money that she was owed, I believe she lived relatively comfortably by the end.
The same university that rejected her scholarship all those years ago on account of her being black, which kick started her fight for civil rights, actually did grant her an honorary doctorate just a few years before she died, and she was very insistent that people refer to her as "Doctor Nina Simone!" haha
So at least she had that closure, that her initial chance in life which was owed to her, was returned in the end.
All we can do in the end is remember Nina's story as an example of injustice in the world, and fight against the exploitation of artists and people in the present and in the future
Has that been documented?
I found this heart breaking, i have not known about her past or her career but obviously i knew as a black artist she would not have had it as good as she truly deserved and seeing video was shocking.
So Sad. She was Done Real Wrong to, by the industry.
I wish for Nina is a type of peace with acceptance of her situation. She is a contraindicated when she says she loves to play and gets love from that. But where is the self love. Only we can do that. She was obviously ripped off by the people who controlled her money. But no one came to her aid. She feels betrayed and she was. The truth is in the details, I would like to know who,what and How this occured. She needs rest and to take care of herself. I hope she finds peace. And if any of the vultures around are gone. She has to protect and preserve what is left of her music. And gets her fair share of money. You here this alot with musicians being ripped off by those they employ to handle their finances. A lesson to all musicians out their. This is a greedy world. The do not have the talent of the musician but they are narcissistic and egotistical. And if they can be a creator, they will manipulate the creative one and take their money. A warning to all the young creators of art and music.but I think the Beyonce's of today's world have got much more power and control and autonomy. But talent like Roberta does not exist as much today.
I noticed that her makeup would always compliment her features. I've always thought she was beautiful.
David Bowie help Nina with money. Nina and Bowie was are very good friend
The interviewer didn't get Nina at all ! Nina wanted to be set up comfortable from all her hard work and great creative output as she should have been !! Can you think of any artist more deserving ?
That white womannn! Nina's look at the end of the interview said it all! She couldn't comprehend anything... So cold yet pretending to be human... Lol the caucasian curse.
personally i dont see it, and theres no reason to attack her like that cause shes caucasian, but go off..
Oh shut up, Mavis was an excellent interviewer. I know it's in your interest to vilify every white person there is but at the end of the day, that just makes you paranoid and insecure in yourself.
Mavis Nicholson was a great journalist and interviewer but British TV in the 70's was a very stiff and formal affair. Also, as a serious femail interviewer Mavis was a rarity and would be up against her own set of restrictions and expectations. However, it's really shockingly to here such a great, great artist being so under appreciated.
@@melharis4451 That's not why they're attacking her. Point missed.
@@DeepScreenAnalysis Yes, because one comment means you know that the original commenter does that on a regular basis. Everyone gets mad but nobody sits down and reads.
She use to beat her daughter. She was bi polar. She was abused by her husband. Sad life.
The plight of a black talented woman. Never respected. Til this day. People can have millions of followers, making money with no talent, dying their skin, plumping their lips and filling their asses to look like black women but the black woman who is a gift from God, full of love, integrity and talent has to beg for her money. Its pure disrespect. Its tiring. Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Why she had to beg to be accepted by her country. Why is that still true? To be paid what she is worth.. wow
Are you restless then?
Nina: ump emm I'm just tired!
Me:💯😂😂😂😂 the black woman from north Carolina sholl came out then
Nina didn't have a house??? The industry did this woman wrong. There are UA-cam "creators" who have MANSIONS, and one of the greatest musicians ever didn't have a house???
Nina was sick and tired of being sick and tired.
+
A remarkably woman. But that didn't seem to help her.
This just makes me hate this racist ass world even more than I already do. She NEVER received what was hers!! Just sad af.
Whhhoooooaaaaa
White Lady: so what that you sold millions of albums in your poor, you can get your love in recognition from the fact that the audience loves you.
You say you're tired, but you're here singing your song so well and full of life.
Nina: I need a vacation, I need the money owed to me, and I'm not up here singing and shucking and jiving happily for you... I'm singing my sorrows and pain on my last will to live.
Yuuuuuuppp. That about sums it up.
It has been documented, yes. She had bipolar disorder.
VampiraVonGhoulscout so fucking what? Try being black in America!
Poor Nina. Amazing musician but she wasn't all there... This interview was awful.
Sebastien Bernard My sentiments entirely. One of the most amazing voices with more talent than we're ever likely too see again. Makes me sad to see interviews of her like this one.
Franka Sensale White Supremacy takes its toll on us.
+Franka Sensale Donald Trump is that you?
Franka Sensale you are TOTALLY WRONG!!!!
Wow , amazing.