Nina Simone was a complicated woman. That complexity was one of many things about her that launched her to stardom as one of the most revered and beloved jazz and R&B singer/songwriters of her ...

A quarter century of legal mania over the famed singer takes an explosive turn. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large In a long, complicated fight over the music of Nina Simone, the legendary ...

Ironically, the Beatles’ “Revolution” isn’t about a revolution — or is it? At different points, the lyrics promote and criticize the idea of a revolution. Above all, the track is ambivalent — while ...

In April, the singer, songwriter and pianist will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In anticipation, two compilations of Simone's early singles have been released. This is FRESH AIR. In ...

In 1966, Nina Simone released a song called “Four Women.” It was both a civil rights protest and a feminist anthem. The four women who inhabit the song’s four verses are archetypes. One is a caretaker ...

Nina Simone fans have a reason for feeling good: A previously unreleased recording of the legendary artist’s set at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1966 is being released. Verve Records and UMe on ...

I remember how it ended. A bespectacled, lanky, light-skinned sister sporting two braided pigtails stepped up to the mic. She was rocking garden-green pants and a yellow spaghetti-strap tank top, and ...

The singer and activist's life is depicted in Nina, opening April 22 With songs like “Mississippi Goddam” and “Why (The King of Love Is Dead),” Nina Simone earned a reputation as the voice of the ...

When it comes to choosing favorites, there are too many of Nina Simone’s songs to name. But when it comes to finding glorious inspiration for natural hair, these are the songs that come to mind. Here ...

Before Brittany Howard turned 30, the dynamic singer and guitarist already had multiple musical lives on her résumé: leading the Grammy-winning Alabama Shakes, her punk-blues side project Thunderbitch ...