Nina Simone was a complicated woman ... Her voice is at its very best in this song.

She covers the songs of the Beatles ... (There are three -- "The Legend at Her Best," "Misunderstood" and "Nina Simone's Finest Hour" -- to be released this summer.) And yet her voice had grown ...

Nina Simone was also an advocate for civil rights throughout her career. She used her platform as an artist to speak out against injustice and inequality, writing songs such as “Mississippi ...

You've read all about the 500 best pop songs that reached Billboard's flagship songs chart -- now check out the 100 best that never got there. Last week at Billboard, we spent three days counting ...

a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs. Just a week after performing at the historically Black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., supporting James Meredith’s March Against Fear, Nina Simone ...

The art of Nina Simone is the art of transformation ... Jazz singer Lincoln was already growing into one of the greatest writers of songs in the jazz idiom, yet both the music and lyrics here are ...

as Nina Simone and Josh Young as Shlomo, helped Simone understand her mother's music even more. "My mom's album Forbidden Fruit has one of my favorite songs and when I was young I used to sing ...

"Nina Simone: Four Women," Milwaukee ... Christina Ham's play with substantial music dramatizes how Simone made civil rights activism the driving force in her songs following the 1963 bombing ...

Racism, sexism, domestic violence and mental illness waylaid musical legend Nina Simone and ... in spite of such obstacles. Best of all, the documentary will give Simone’s fans a greater ...

I wanted to be the world's first black concert pianist for 22 years – Nina Simone The song Four Women, written in 1966, portrayed the struggles and resilience of black women in the US ...