Nina Simone – A piano that would not kneel
At Annie's Room in Soho, June 1965, Nina Simone's left hand pushes back under the voice.
Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares for Me
In December 1957 at Beltone Studios in New York, Nina Simone cut My Baby Just Cares for Me for Bethlehem with Jimmy Bond and Albert “Tootie” Heath; the track closed Little Girl Blue (1959) and returned as a UK Top 5 hit in 1987 after
What if Nina Simone had accepted a Hollywood lead in 1968?
In 1968, Nina Simone accepts a Hollywood leading role and forces the film business to make room for her music.
Interview of Nina Simone (1968)
In 1968, the year Martin Luther King was murdered and Nina Simone answered with Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) and the live album 'Nuff Said!, she speaks about Black identity, responsibility, and the cost of being needed.