We're taking a look back at Nina Simone's iconic cover of Leonard Coehn's song 'Suzanne'. The singer takes on the role of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is no question that actress/singer/not of this world performer Felicia Curry is true DC theatre royalty. There is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the spirit of celebrating the arts in its myriad forms, here are four songs you may not have known were adapted from poems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new TV show, which will follow the reality star family during their daily lives, picks up after the ending of their former ...