It was less than a decade ago that I first heard Nina Simone sing. It was Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released," and though I'd heard countless vocalists cover Dylan's songs, never before had I ...

The childhood home of Nina Simone seemed fated for obscurity until a group of artists purchased it six years ago. Nancy Pierce / National Trust for Historic Preservation Tennis superstar Venus ...

Billie Holiday and Nina Simone may seem like the stalwarts of jazz, but how did Simone's former inspiration turn into someone she hated? Find out here.

A recently unearthed live version of “Blues for Mama,” written by Simone and Abbey Lincoln in the 1960s, took on domestic abuse in a momentous way. By Salamishah Tillet Nina Simone was always ...

Follow the San Francisco native, Black Barbie collector and proud mom of two on Instagram and Twitter @janinerube Getty Images If the story of Nina Simone and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach isn't widely ...

Nina Simone's daughter is a jazz singer just like her late mother David Redfern/Redferns ; Jack Vartoogian/Getty Nina Simone was not only a cultural icon, jazz singer and civil rights activist ...

by Nina Simone. (Verve Records/UMe via AP) (Uncredited) NEW YORK – Nina Simone fans have a reason for feeling good: A previously unreleased recording of the legendary artist's set at the Newport ...

Enter the intimate Argyros Stage at South Coast Repertory for “Nina Simone: Four Women” and you’re serenaded with a background loop of Lauryn Hill and Muse covering the sublime ’60s song ...

For Alexander Simone, legacy is walking down the road created by two iconic Black women while paving his own. As the grandson of jazz and soul legend Nina Simone and the son of singer and actress ...

Nina Simone’s brother Sam Waymon is not here for the casting of Zoe Saldana in the much talked about biopic, Nina. “If I was asked to play someone of the monumental stature of Nina Simone ...