Nina Simone
Biography
Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to classify. She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over the course of the same album; she was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. It's perhaps most accurate to label her as a "soul" singer in terms of emotion, rather than form. Like, say, Aretha Franklin, or Dusty Springfield, Simone was an eclectic who brought soulful qualities to whatever material she interpreted. These qualities were among her strongest virtues; paradoxically, they also may have kept her from...Read more
Discography
- Single Woman (1993)
- Nina's Back (1985)
- Fodder On My Wings (1982)
- Baltimore (1978)
- It Is Finished (1974)
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Pictures
Lyrics
- Ain't Got No/i Got Life
- Ain't Got No/i Got Life
- Ain't No Use
- Alone Again (naturally)
- Angel Of The Morning
- Another Spring
- Assignment Sequence
- Backlash Blues
- Backlash Blues
- Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Mp3's
- Seems I'm Never Tried Lovin' You
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
- I Think It's Going To Rain Today
- Everyone's Gone To The Moon
- Compensation
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