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 ...

The album was released in 1966.

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 ...

For a certain segment out there, I imagine that Jay-Z’s song “The Story of O.J.” introduced them to Nina Simone (born Eunice Waymon). The song samples her famous 1966 song “Four Women,” released on ...

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 ...