Nina Simone

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Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933-2004), also known as Nina Simone (informally), was an American singer, guitarist, arranger, and civil rights activist.

Her music spanned a variety of musical styles, including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Simone, the sixth of eight children born in Tryon, North Carolina, aspired to be a concert pianist.

She enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York City with the support of a few people in her hometown.

She then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was refused admission despite a well-received audition, citing racial discrimination.

Simone began playing piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City in 2003, just days before her death.

Having chosen to play "the devil's music" or the so-called "cocktail piano," she changed her name to "Nina Simone" to distance herself from family members.

She was told in the nightclub that she'd have to sing to her own accompaniment, which effectively started her career as a jazz singer.

She appeared on more than 40 albums between 1958 and 1974, making her debut with Little Girl Blue.

"I Loves You, Porgy" was a hit single in the United States in 1958.

In particular, Johann Sebastian Bach's musical style mixed gospel and pop with classical music, as well as expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.

1933–1954: Early life

Simone was born in Tryon, North Carolina, on February 21, 1933. John Divine Waymon, his father, served as a barber and dry-cleaner as well as an entertainer, and Mary Kate Irvin, a Methodist preacher, was a Methodist preacher. She began playing piano at the age of three or four; the first song she heard was "God Be With You, Till We Meet Again." Demonstrating a natural performer on the piano, she appeared at her local church. When she was 12, she received her first recital, a classical recital. During this performance, Simone said that her parents, who had taken seats in the front row, were compelled to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people. She said she refused to play until her parents were recalled to the front, and that the occurrence influenced her later involvement in the civil rights movement. Simone's music teacher helped establish a separate fund to pay for her education. A local fund was established to support her continued education. She was able to attend Allen High School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina, with the support of this scholarship fund.

Simone spent the summer of 1950 at the Juilliard School as a Carl Friedberg student, preparing for an audition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. However, her application was turned down. Only 3 of 72 applicants were accepted this year, but her family had migrated to Philadelphia in the hopes of her admission to Curtis, but her aspirations were particularly hard. She suspected that her application had been rejected due to racial prejudice for the remainder of her life, which Curtis workers denied. Discouraged, she took private piano lessons with Vladimir Sokoloff, a Curtis professor, but she was unable to re-apply due to the fact that the Curtis institute did not accept students over the age of 21. She began working as a photographer's assistant but also found work as an accompanist at Arlene Smith's vocal studio and taught piano from her home in Philadelphia.

Simone appeared at the Midtown Bar & Grill in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the owner insisted she sing as well as play the piano, boosting her income to $90 a week. In 1954, she adopted the stage name "Nina Simone." "Nina" was a nickname given to her by a boyfriend named Chico, and "Simone" was borrowed from French actress Simone Signoret, who had appeared in the 1952 film Casque d'Or. Knowing that her mother would not be able to enjoy "the Devil's music," she used her new stage name to stay undetected. Simone's blend of jazz, blues, and classical music in her live shows earned her a small but devoted fan base.

In 1958, she befriended and married Don Ross, a fairground barker who served as a beatnik who served as a fairground barker, but she quickly regretted their union. She performed in small clubs in the same year, earning George Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy" (from Porgy and Bess), which she acquired from a Billie Holiday album and performed as a favor to a friend. It was her first Billboard top 20 hit in the United States, and her debut album Little Girl Blue followed in February 1959 on Bethlehem Records. Simone lost more than $3,000 in royalties (especially for her 1980s re-release of her jazz hit "My Baby Just Cares for Me") but never profited financially from the album's sales because she had sold her rights outright for $3,000.

Simone, the girl blues, has signed a deal with Colpix Records and released a number of studio and live albums since her debut on Little Girl Blue's success. Colpix has relinquished all creative control to her, including the choice of material that would be recorded in exchange for her engagement with them. Simone became a hit performer in Greenwich Village after the release of her live album Nina Simone at Town Hall. Simone was still playing pop music to make money to continue her classical music studies by this time, and she was unconcerned with her being on a recording deal. For the bulk of her career, she maintained this attitude towards the record industry.

In December 1961, Simone married Andrew Stroud, a New York police detective. He was her boss and father of her daughter Lisa's daughter Lisa in a few years, but Simone and her daughter Lisa were both physically and mentally wounded.

Simone converted record dealers from Colpix, an American firm, to the Dutch Philips Records in 1964, which resulted in a change in the sound of her songs. She had always had songs in her repertoire that referenced her African-American roots, such as Oscar Brown's "Brown Baby" and Michael Olatunji's "Zungo" on her album Nina at the Village Gate in 1962. Nina Simone in Concert (1964), for the first time in the song "Mississippi Goddam," she addressed racial injustice in the US. This was her reaction to Medgar Evers' murder in June 12, 1963, and the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four young black girls and left a fifth partially blind. "I'm like throwing ten bullets back at them," Simone said, making it one of many other protest songs written by her. The album was released as a single and was banned in several southern states. A Carolina radio station smashed promotional copies and returned to Philips, prompting the restoration of Philips. She recalled how "Mississippi Goddam" was her "first civil rights album" and that the album came to her "in a fit of fury, mistrust, and zeal." The song challenged the belief that race relations will evolve as a result and called for more immediate changes: "me and my people are just about due." It was a pivotal moment in her civil rights activism. The Jim Crow Act, also known as "Old Jim Crow," discussed Jim Crow's Jim Crow's Jim Crow's. A civil rights message became the norm on Simone's albums after "Mississippi Goddam" and became part of her live shows. The rate of her music's debut slowed as her political activism increased.

Simone appeared and spoke at civil rights conferences, from Selma to Montgomery marches. Malcolm X, her neighbor in Mount Vernon, New York, embraced black nationalism and argued for a violent revolution rather than Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent approach. She hoped that African Americans would form a distinct nation by using armed conflict, but she claimed in her autobiography that all races were equal.

Simone went from Philips to RCA Victor in 1967. On her first RCA record, Nina Simone Sings the Blues (1967), she sang "Backlash Blues" written by her friend, Harlem Renaissance founder Langston Hughes on her first RCA album, Nina Simone Sings the Blues (1967). "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" and "Turning Point" were two Billy Taylor's songs on Silk & Soul (1967).

The album 'Nuff Said!

(1968) featured live recordings from the Westbury Music Fair, which took place three days after Martin Luther King Jr's assassination. She dedicated the appearance to him and sang "Why?" (The King of Love Is Dead) is a song written by Gene Taylor, her bass player. She appeared at the Harlem Cultural Festival in Harlem's Mount Morris Park in 1969, which was captured in Questlove's 2021 film Summer of Soul.

Simone and Weldon Irvine converted Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished play To Be Young, Gifted and Black into a civil rights song with the same name. Hansberry credited her with raising her social and political consciousness. Black Gold (1970): She performed the song live on the album Black Gold (1970). Aretha Franklin (on her 1972 album Young, Gifted, Black) and Donny Hathaway performed a studio recording as a single, and live performances of the song were released as a single. "I felt more alive then than I do now because I was needed," she wrote in her autobiography, "I could sing something to help my people."

Simone told Jet magazine that her dissatisfaction with her song "Mississippi Goddam" had harmed her career. She said the music industry retaliated her by boycotting her music. Simone, hurt and dissatisfied, left the United States in September 1970, heading to Barbados and wishing her husband and boss (Andrew Stroud) to connect with her as she had to perform again. However, Stroud mistook Simone's disappearance, as well as the fact that she had left her wedding ring on display, as an indication of her longing for a divorce. Stroud, her boss, was in charge of Simone's welfare.

Simone returned to the United States and discovered a warrant for her deposition for unpaid taxes (unpaid as a result of her country's involvement in the Vietnam War) and returned to Barbados to defuse the authorities and prosecution. Simone remained in Barbados for a long time and had a long affair with Prime Minister Errol Barrow. Miriam Makeba, a close friend, was then persuaded to leave Liberia. In Mount Vernon, Simone relocatingd to meet her daughter Lisa. Lisa and Simone were reunited in Liberia, but Lisa said her mother was physically and mentally ill. Lisa became suicidal as a result of the abuse, and she and her father Andrew Stroud returned to New York to live with her father Andrew Stroud. Simone released her last album for RCA, It Is Finished, in 1974, but she didn't make another debut until 1978, when CTI Records owner Creed Taylor was refused to enter the recording studio. The result was the album Baltimore, which although not a commercial success, was nonetheless well received artistically and signaled a quiet artistic revival in Simone's recording output. Her collection of music remained largely eclectic, ranging from classical songs to Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl." Simone on My Wings is a French company that specialises in Fodder. Davout, a four-year old singer, was born in France.

Simone appeared regularly at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London in the 1980s, where she recorded the album Live at Ronnie Scott's in 1984. Despite the fact that her early on-stage appearances were a touch haughty and distant, Simone also enjoyed spending time with her fans in later years by recounting amusing anecdotes relating to her work and music and soliciting bids. She had been somewhere and nowhere by this time. She grew up in Liberia, Barbados, and Switzerland before settling in Paris. She appeared in a small jazz club called Aux Trois Mailletz for little financial compensation. The shows were often spectacular, but Nina Simone gave up after fifteen minutes at other times. She was often too drained to sing or play the piano properly. She scolded the audience at other times. Nina Simone's demise seemed to be in sight. Raymond Gonzalez, guitarist Al Schackman, and Gerrit de Bruin, a Dutch friend of her family's, have all been keen to intervene.

Simone's album "My Baby Just Cares for Me" became a huge European hit in 1987. The song was recorded by her for the first time in 1958 and was used in a Chanel No. 59 commercial. 5 perfume in Europe has resulted in a re-release of the track. Simone's name has risen to number four on the UK's NME singles chart, bringing her a brief boost in success in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Simone moved to Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in the spring of 1988. She bought an apartment next to the Belvoir Hotel in view of the Waalbrug and Ooijpolder, with the support of her brother Gerrit de Bruin, who lived with his family a few blocks away and kept an eye on her. The idea was to get Simone to Nijmegen to relax and get back to track. Jackie Hammond, a London caretaker, had been recruited for her job. She was known for her temper and outbursts of violence. The tantrums followed her to Nijmegen, sadly. Simone was diagnosed with bipolar disorder by a De Bruin friend who gave her Trilafon. Despite the miserable illness, Simone in Nijmegen was generally a good time for her, where she could live a relatively anonymous life. Just a few people recognized her, but most Nijmegen people did not know who she was. Slowly but surely her life began to improve, and after a legal battle, she was also able to profit from the Chanel ads. Nina Simone of 1991 traded Nijmegen for the more lively Amsterdam, where she spent two years with colleagues and Hammond.

Simone de Provence, 1993, arrived in Aix-en-Provence, southern France, where she was born "Bouches-du-Rhône." A Single Woman, her last album, was released in the same year. She has variously claimed that she married or had a love affair with a Tunisian around this time, but that their friendship was ended because "His family didn't want him to move to France," says the French family, and France did not want him because he's a North African." "If you're going to come see me again, you've got to France because I am not coming back" during a 1998 performance in Newark. She suffered from breast cancer for many years before fading in her sleep at her home in Carry-le-Rouet (Bouches-du-Rhône) on April 21, 2003. Miriam Makeba and Patti LaBelle, poet Sonia Sanchez, actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, and hundreds of others attended her Catholic funeral service at the local parish. Simone's ashes were scattered in a variety of African countries. Lisa Celeste Stroud is an actress and singer who performed on Broadway in Aida. She performed on Broadway as Simone and Lee Martin.

1954–1959: Early success

Simone performed at the Midtown Bar & Grill in Atlantic City, New Jersey, whose owner insisted that she sing as well as play the piano, which raised her income to $90 a week. In 1954, she adopted the stage name "Nina Simone." "Nina" was a term used by a male protagonist named Chico, and "Simone" was taken from French actress Simone Signoret, who had appeared in the 1952 film Casque d'Or. She used her new stage name to remain undetected, knowing that her mother would not be able to enjoy "the Devil's music." Simone's blend of jazz, blues, and classical music in her bar appearances has earned her a small but loyal fan base.

She befriended and married Don Ross, a beatnik who worked as a fairground barker, in 1958, but then regretted their union. She appeared in small clubs in the same year and performed as a favor to a friend. "I Loves You, Porgy" by George Gershwin (from Porgy and Bess), a Porgy and Bess) was released by a Billie Holiday album and performed as a favor to a friend. It was her first Billboard top 20 hit in the United States, and she's debut album, Little Girl Blue, followed in February 1959 on Bethlehem Records. Simone lost more than $1 million in royalties (particularly for her 1980s re-release of her version of "My Baby Just Cares for Me") and never profited from the album's sales because she had sold her rights outright for $3,000.

Simone, the girl blues, has signed a deal with Colpix Records and has released a slew of studio and live albums since her debut with Little Girl Blue. Colpix relinquished all creative influence to her, including the choice of content that would be recorded in exchange for her continued employment with them. Simone became a favorite performer in Greenwich Village after the release of her live album Nina Simone at Town Hall. Simone performed pop music to continue her classical music studies by this time, and she was unconcerned with a recording contract. For the majority of her career, she maintained this attitude toward the record business.

In December 1961, Simone married Andrew Stroud, a New York police detective. He served as her boss and father of Lisa's daughter Lisa for a few years, but then she and Simone were cruelled emotionally and physically.

Simone converted record distributors from Colpix, an American company, to the Dutch Philips Records in 1964, resulting in a change in the content of her recordings. She had always included songs in her repertoire that referenced her African-American roots, such as "Brown Baby" by Oscar Brown and "Zungo" by Michael Olatunji on her album Nina at the Village Gate in 1962, and "Zungo" by Michael Olatunji. Nina Simone in Concert (1964), for the first time in the song "Mississippi Goddam"), she addressed racial injustice in the United States. This was her reaction to Medgar Evers' murder in 1963 and the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four teenage black girls and left a fifth dead. The song was described as "like throwing ten bullets back at them," she said, making it one of many other Simone protest songs. The album was released as a single, and in several southern states, it was boycotted. A radio station in North Carolina smashed promotional copies and brought them right back to Philips. She recalled how "Missississippi Goddam" was her "first civil rights song" and that the album came to her "in a rush of fury, resentment, and a ferocious sense of urgency." The song challenged the assumption that race relations could change gradually and called for more immediate changes: "me and my people are just about due." It was a turning point in her journey to Civil Rights activism. The Jim Crow laws were discussed on the same album as "Old Jim Crow." A civil rights message was the norm on Simone's albums and became a part of her shows after "Mississippi Goddam." The rate of her music's introduction slowed as her political activism increased.

Simone marched and spoke at civil rights organizations, from Selma to Montgomery marches. Malcolm X, her neighbor in Mount Vernon, New York, argued for black nationalism and urged violent change rather than Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent approach. She wished that African Americans could use armed combat to create a separate nation, but she wrote in her autobiography that both races were equal.

Simone went from Philips to RCA Victor in 1967. On her first RCA record, Nina Simone Sings the Blues (1967), she performed "Backlash Blues," written by Harlem Renaissance founder Langston Hughes. Billy Taylor's "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel Free" and "Turning Point" were recorded on Silk & Soul (1967).

The album 'Nuff Said!

(68) Live recordings from the Westbury Music Fair of April 7, 1968, three days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, she dedicated the performance to him and sang "Why?" Gene Taylor's song "The King of Love Is Dead" is a song written by her bass player Gene Taylor. In 1969, she appeared at the Harlem Cultural Festival in Mount Morris Park, Harlem, which was shot in Questlove's 2021 film Summer of Soul.

Simone and Weldon Irvine converted Lorraine Hansberry's incomplete play To Be Young, Gifted and Black into a civil rights song of the same name. Hansberry was credited with her increasing political and cultural awareness. On the album Black Gold (1970), she performed the song live. Aretha Franklin (on her 1972 album Young, Gifted, and Black) and Donny Hathaway's recording were released as a single, and live recordings of the song were also released as a single. "I felt more alive then than I do now because I was obligated, and I could sing something to help my people." "I felt more alive then than I felt now because I was worried."

Simone said that her "Mississippi Goddam" harmed her career in an interview for Jet magazine. She argued that the music industry punished her by boycotting her music. Simone, hurt and dissatisfied, left the United States in September 1970, heading to Barbados and hoping her husband and boss (Andrew Stroud) would call her as she had to perform again. However, Stroud interpreted Simone's sudden disappearance, as well as the fact that she had left her wedding ring on hand, as an indication of her desire for a divorce. Simone's salary was handled by her boss, Stroud.

Simone returned to the United States after finding a warrant for her arrest for unpaid taxes (unpaid as a protest against her country's involvement in the Vietnam War) and returning to Barbados to flee the authorities and prosecution. Simone lived in Barbados for a long time, and she had a long affair with Prime Minister Errol Barrow. Miriam Makeba, a close friend, eventually begged her to leave Liberia. In Mount Vernon, Simone left her daughter Lisa. Lisa's mother was eventually reunited with Simone in Liberia, but Lisa was physically and mentally abused, according to Lisa. Lisa was so abused that she became suicidal, she and her father Andrew Stroud returned to New York to live with her father. Simone recorded her last album for RCA, It's Finished, in 1974, but she did not make another appearance until 1978, when CTI Records owner Creed Taylor was refused to enter the recording studio. The result was the album Baltimore, which, although not a commercial success, was lauded nonetheless, and marked a waning artistic revival in Simone's recording output. Her collection of works remained eclectic, ranging from classical songs to Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl." Simone Fodder on My Wings was released on a French label, Studio Davout, four years later.

Simone appeared regularly at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, where she recorded the album Live at Ronnie Scott's in 1984. Although her early on-stage appearances may have been haughty and aloof, Simone, a member of the United Kingdom, appeared to enjoy visiting her audiences occasionally by recalling amusing anecdotes related to her career and music as well as soliciting requests. She stayed somewhere and nowhere by this time. She lived in Liberia, Barbados, and Switzerland and then ended up in Paris. She appeared in Aux Trois Mailletz's small jazz club on a small budget. The shows were often spectacular, but Nina Simone gave up after fifteen minutes at other times. Often she was too inebriated to play or play the piano properly. She has scolded the audience at other times. Nina Simone's end seemed to be in sight. Raymond Gonzalez, guitarist Al Schackman, and Gerrit de Bruin, a Dutch friend of her own, decided to intervene.

Simone's album "My Baby Just Cares for Me" became a huge European hit in 1987. The song was performed by her for the first time in 1958 and was included in a Chanel No. 59 commercial. 5 perfume in Europe has resulted in the re-release of the song. Simone's rise to number four on the UK's NME singles chart topped the UK's NME singles chart, giving him a brief boost in esteem in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Simone moved to Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in the spring of 1988. She bought an apartment in Waalbrug and Ooijpolder with the assistance of her friend Gerrit de Bruin, who lived with his family a few blocks away and watched her closely. The idea was to get Simone and Nijmegen to relax and get back to track. Jackie Hammond, a London caretaker, was hired for her. She was known for her temper and violent outbursts. Unfortunately, the tantrums followed her to Nijmegen. Simone was diagnosed with bipolar disorder by a De Bruin friend who gave her Trilafon. Despite the gruesome illness, Simone's life in Nijmegen, where she could live a relatively anonymous life, was an enjoyable time. Only a few people recognized her, but the majority of Nijmegen people were unaware of who she was. After a court fight, slowly but surely, her life began to improve, and she was even able to benefit from the Chanel brand. Nina Simone left Nijmegen for more lively Amsterdam in 1991, where she spent two years with colleagues and Hammond.

Simone lived in Aix-en-Provence, southern France, in 1993 (Bouches-du-Rhône). Her final album, A Single Woman, was released in the same year. She has variedly stated that she married or had a love affair with a Tunisian around this time, but that their marriage ended because, "His relatives don't want him to move to France, and France does not want him because he is a North African." "If you're going to see me again, you've got to France because I am not coming back." During a 1998 appearance in Newark. She suffered from breast cancer for many years before fading in her sleep at her Carry-le-Rouet (Bouches-du-Rhône) on April 21, 2003. Miriam Makeba and Patti LaBelle, poet Sonia Sanchez, actress Ossie Davis, and hundreds of others attended her Catholic funeral service at the local parish. Simone's ashes were dispersed in many African nations. Lisa Celeste Stroud's daughter, who took the stage name Simone, was an actress and singer who performed on Broadway in Aida.

1974–1993: Later life

Simone said in a Jet magazine interview that her controversial album "Mississippi Goddam" had harmed her career. She said the music industry punished her by boycotting her work. Simone, hurt and dissatisfied, left the United States in September 1970, heading to Barbados and awaiting her husband and boss (Andrew Stroud) to talk with her when she had to perform again. However, Stroud mistook Simone's sudden disappearance, as well as the fact that she had left her wedding ring on display, as an indication of her desire for a divorce. Stroud, her boss, was in charge of Simone's finances.

When Simone returned to the United States, she discovered a warrant for her detention for unpaid taxes (unpaid as a result of her country's service in the Vietnam War) and returned to Barbados to avoid the authorities and prosecution. Simone remained in Barbados for a long time, and had a long affair with Prime Minister Errol Barrow. Miriam Makeba, a close friend, was later told not to go to Liberia. When Simone moved to Mount Vernon, she abandoned her daughter Lisa. Lisa eventually returned to Liberia with Simone, but Lisa says her mother was physically and mentally abused. Lisa was so miserable that she became suicidal, she returned to New York to live with her father Andrew Stroud. Simone's last album for RCA, It's Finished, was released in 1974, but she didn't make another appearance until 1978, when she was offered permission by CTI Records owner Creed Taylor to go into the recording studio. The result, although not commercially popular, was nonetheless well received critically and signaled a subtle artistic revival in Simone's recording output. Her collection of literature remained untouched, ranging from spiritual songs to Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl." Simone Fodder on My Wings, a French label, was released four years ago, Studio Davout.

Simone performed regularly at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, where she recorded the album Live at Ronnie Scott's in 1984. Though her early on-stage appearances were notably haughty and aloof, Simone seemed to enjoy spending time with her audiences occasionally, recounting amusing anecdotes relating to her work and music, as well as soliciting requests. She stayed somewhere and nowhere by this time. She lived in Liberia, Barbados, and Switzerland and eventually settled in Paris. Aux Trois Mailletz was a member of a tiny jazz group who received only modest financial compensation. The shows were often outstanding, but Nina Simone gave up after fifteen minutes at other times. Often, she was too drained to play or play the piano properly. At other times she scolded the audience. Nina Simone's demise seemed to be in sight. Raymond Gonzalez, guitarist Al Schackman and Gerrit de Bruin, a Dutch friend of hers, had to intervene.

Simone's album "My Baby Just Cares For Me" became a big European hit in 1987. The song was recorded by her for the first time in 1958, and Chanel No. 1 was used in a commercial for Chanel No. 88. 5 perfume in Europe has resulted in the re-release of the song. Simone gained a brief rise in popularity in the United Kingdom and elsewhere as this storm stormed to number four on the UK's NME singles chart, giving him a brief boost in fame.

Simone moved to Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in the spring of 1988. With the help of her companion Gerrit de Bruin, who lived with his family a few blocks away and kept an eye on her, she bought an apartment next to the Belvoir Hotel to see the Waalbrug and Ooijpolder. The idea was to bring Simone and Nijmegen together and get back to Nijmegen. Jackie Hammond, a London daily caretaker, was recruited for her job. She was known for her temper and outbursts of violence. Unfortunately, the tantrums followed her to Nijmegen. Simone was diagnosed with bipolar disorder by a friend of De Bruin, who gave her Trilafon. Given the gruesome illness, Simone was generally a good time for her in Nijmegen, where she could live a relatively anonymous life. Only a few people recognized her, but the majority of Nijmegen people were unaware of her existence. Her life began to improve slowly but surely, and after a court clash, she was even able to profit from the Chanel advertisement. Nina Simone traded Nijmegen for more vibrant Amsterdam, where she spent two years with family and Hammond.

Simone Berne née in 1993, he and Pierre née in Aix-en-Provence, southern France, where they met (Bouches-du-Rhône). A Single Woman, her final album, was released in the same year. She argued that she married or had a love affair with a Tunisian around this time, but that their friendship ended because, "His family doesn't want him to move to France, and France doesn't want him because he is a North African." "If you're going to see me again, you've got to France," she said during a 1998 appearance in Newark. She suffered from breast cancer for many years before choking in her sleep at her Carry-le-Rouet (Bouches-du-Rhône), on April 21, 2003. Miriam Makeba and Patti LaBelle, poet Sonia Sanchez, actress Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, among hundreds of others, attended her Catholic funeral service at the local parish. Simone's ashes were scattered in many African countries. Lisa Celeste Stroud's daughter, who went by the name Simone, and who appeared on Broadway in Aida, was an actress and singer who performed on Broadway.

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