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Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Born the sixth child of a preacher's family in North Carolina, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist. Her musical path changed direction after she was denied a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, despite a well-received audition. Simone was later told by someone working at Curtis that she was rejected because she was black. When she began playing in a small club in Philadelphia to fund her continuing musical education and become a classical pianist she was required to sing as well. She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records, and her rendering of "I Loves You Porgy" was a hit in the United States in 1958. Over the length of her career Simone recorded more than 40 albums, mostly between 1958—when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue—and 1974.
Her musical style arose from a fusion of gospel and pop songs with classical music, in particular with influences from her first inspiration, Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied with her expressive jazz-like singing in her characteristic contralto. She injected as much of her classical background into her music as possible to give it more depth and quality, as she felt that pop music was inferior to classical. Her intuitive grasp on the audience–performer relationship was gained from a unique background of playing piano accompaniment for church revivals and sermons regularly from the early age of six years old. 
In the early 60s, she became involved in the civil rights movement and the direction of her life shifted once again. Simone's music was highly influential in the fight for equal rights in the US. In later years, she lived abroad, finally settling in France in 1992.

Track Listing Disc 1:
01. Blue Prelude
02. That's Him over There
03. Theme from "Middle of the Night"
04. Willow Weep for Me
05. Solitaire
06. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
07. Exactly Like You
08. The Other Woman
09. You Can Have Him
10. Cottom Eyed Joe
11. Fine and Mellow
12. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
13. Trouble in Mind
14. Porgy
15. Li'l Liza Jane
16. Rags and Old Iron
17. No Good Man
18. Gin House Blues
19. Work Song
20. Forbidden Fruit
21. Come on Back, Jack

Track Listing Disc 2:
01. He Was Too Good to Me
02. House of the Rising Sun
03. Brown Baby
04. Children Go Where I Send You
05. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
06. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
07. Hey, Buddy Bolden
08. Solitude
09. The Gal from Joe's
10. Blackbird
11. If You Knew
12. The Twelfth of Never
13. When I Was a Young Girl
14. Erets Zavat Chalav
15. The Young Knight
16. Spring Is Here
17. Falling in Love Again
18. That's All
19. Porgy, I Is Your Woman (Bess, You Is My Woman)

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 2xCD
Genre: Jazz, Soul, Blues
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 1996
Speelduur: 151 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt