Nina Simone
USA
Born: 21 February 1933
Died: 21 April 2003
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Styles: Standards, Hard Bop, Traditional Pop, Vocal/Standards, Vocal Jazz, Torch Songs
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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; pa...
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