Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (IPA: nin?? s??m??n??) (February 21, 1933 ??? April 21, 2003), was a fifteen-time Grammy Award-nominated american singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician; She personally preferred the term "black classical music". Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classical basis, such as jazz, soul, folk, rnb, gospel, and pop music. Her vocal style (with an alto vocal range) is characterized by intense passion, breathiness, and tremolo. Sometimes known as the High Priestess of Soul, she paid great attention to the musical expression of emotions. Within one album or concert she could fluctuate between exuberant happiness or tragic melancholy. These fluctuations also characterized her own personality and personal life, worsened by a bipolar disorder with which she was diagnosed in the mid-sixties, but was kept secret until 2004.
1 | Don't Smoke In Bed | Finest Hour |
2 | Sea Line Woman | House Of The Rising Sun |
3 | The House Of The Rising Sun | House Of The Rising Sun |
4 | Four Women | Finest Hour |
5 | Mississippi Goddam | Finest Hour |
6 | Love Me Or Leave Me | House Of The Rising Sun |
7 | Feelin' Good | Verve Remixed |
8 | Ne Me Quitte Pas | Finest Hour |
9 | Don't Explain | Finest Hour |
10 | Do What You Gotta Do | House Of The Rising Sun |
11 | Here Comes The Sun (Francois K. Remix) | Hed Kandi: Serve Chilled 2008 |
12 | This Year's Kiss | Finest Hour |
13 | Fodder On Her Wings | House Of The Rising Sun |
14 | Pirate Jenny | Finest Hour |
15 | The Look Of Love (Madison Park Vs. Lenny B Remix) | Sex And The City Original Soundtrack |
16 | Little Girl Blue | Finest Hour |
17 | You Took My Teeth | House Of The Rising Sun |
18 | After You've Gone | House Of The Rising Sun |
19 | African Mailman | House Of The Rising Sun |
20 | Feeling Good | fee |