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 ...

Sophie Willoughby, 38, joined a group of singers who all have the condition to record the Nina Simone song 'Don't Let Me Be ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

By Evan Nicole Brown Culture Writer Nina Simone — the legendary singer and activist whose artistry took her around the globe — grew up in a modest, three-room clapboard home in Tryon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geva Theatre’s production of Nina Simone: Four Women is, in true Geva fashion, one that both entertains and provokes deep introspection. This powerful play by Christina Ham takes audiences on an ...

In these exclusive BBC archive clips, Nina Simone describes how racism robbed her of her dream of being a classical pianist, and how in the 1960s she used her remarkable voice to demand equality ...