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Nina Simone
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21 February 1933 - 21 April 2003
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Nina Simone is the stage name of American jazz singer, composer, pianist Eunice Kathleen Waymon. Eunice Waymon was born on February 21, 1933 in North Carolina, USA. She died on April 21, 2003 (from breast cancer) in Cary-les-Royes, France. In her youth, Nina graduated from the music college of New York. Since 1953, the pianist has performed in nightclubs. Then Eunice Waymon takes the pseudonym Nina Simon. During the 50s, Nina Simone released about ten albums with blues compositions. 1965's "I Put
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Nina Simone is the stage name of American jazz singer, composer, pianist Eunice Kathleen Waymon. Eunice Waymon was born on February 21, 1933 in North Carolina, USA. She died on April 21, 2003 (from breast cancer) in Cary-les-Royes, France.
In her youth, Nina graduated from the music college of New York. Since 1953, the pianist has performed in nightclubs. Then Eunice Waymon takes the pseudonym Nina Simon.
During the 50s, Nina Simone released about ten albums with blues compositions. 1965's "I Put a Spell on You" with the hits "Feeling Good" and "I Put a Spell on You" became the singer's most popular album. In 1966, the album Wild is the Wind was released, the style of which approaches the soul genre. Two years later, Simon recorded the song "Ain't Got No", which raised acute social problems.
In 1970, the singer moved to France, where he released several albums. The last album, A Single Woman, was released in 1993. In the same year appeared on the screens.
The Killer ("Point of No Return") The soundtrack for the tape are songs performed by Nina Simon and Hans Zimmer.
Over the years, Nina Simon sang more than three hundred songs, released more than one hundred and fifty discs. One of the most famous is Jacques Brel's French song "Don't Leave Me" (in the English version of "If You Go Away"). It was also performed.
Charles Aznavour Marlene Dietrich, Julio Iglesias,
The Animals . And the influence of "I Put a Spell on You" can be traced in the works of The Beatles.