Nina Simone typified the era of civil rights jazz and soul, but it was the world of classical music that first inspired her ...

Nina Simone, who died in April 2003, was an artist who defied classification. During her career she recorded 34 albums that ranged from jazz, blues and gospel to folk and calypso. Her music not only ...

If the story of Nina Simone and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach isn't widely known, the late blues icon's daughter Lisa Simone is ready to change that. "My mother will have been dead 20 years and I'm still ...

Nina Simone was a luminary who continues to shape the world and new artists to this day. But before she became the High Priestess of Soul, Simone was Eunice Waymon, a girl from North Carolina, born 93 ...

Next, we're going to tell you the story of a dream almost deferred. It begins with a little girl raised in the segregated South of the '30s and '40s. TRACI TODD: It was Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She was ...

As part of a yearlong celebration of Nina Simone’s 90 th birthday, a newly discovered recording from the Tryon, North Carolina-born singer’s performance at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival is set for ...

"Nina Simone: Four Women," Milwaukee Repertory Theater's new production, is neither a musical nor a revue. Instead, Christina Ham's play with substantial music dramatizes how Simone made civil rights ...

*Ever since the Nina Simone life story project was announced it’s been enshrouded in controversy. Chief of which is the casting of actress Zoe Saldana to play Simone. Well, also it’s no secret that ...

On her fourth studio album Proof of Life, singer songwriter Joy Oladokun spins relatable tales. There’s an honesty to the songwriting that hearkens back to the strength of the American folk tradition, ...

One at a time, the women interrupt Nina Simone (Alexis J. Roston) as she tries to write words to a new song: Meek, faith-filled Aunt Sarah (Gabrielle Lott-Rogers), wearing a maid's uniform.

The building where iconic singer, musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone was born in Tryon will undergo restoration as a historic site after gaining protection under a preservation easement.

Alexis J. Roston, left, and Brittney Mack perform in "Nina Simone: Four Women." Milwaukee Repertory Theater performs the show April 16-May 12. That bombing killed four Black girls: Addie Mae Collins, ...