Nina Simone - Classic Hits (23 Golden Tracks) (24BIT Remaster/Mini LP Jacket) (CD) (US Import)
Nina Simone - Classic Hits (23 Golden Tracks) (24BIT Remaster/Mini LP Jacket) (CD) (US Import)
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Imported from the USA
- Artist
- Nina Simone
- EAN/UPC
- 8436569191965
- Product Type
- CD
- Cat No
- 81227
- Released
- 2018
- Pressing
- Europe
- Studio
- State Of Art
- Styles
- Soul-Jazz, Vocal
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Description
Nina Simone — Classic Hits (The Queen Of Soul-Gospel-Jazz)
Format: CD • Label: State Of Art (2) (81227) • Released: 2018 • Pressing: Europe • Genre: Soul-Jazz, Vocal
Tracklist:
1. My Baby Just Cares For Me
2. Little Girl Blue
3. I Loves You Porgy
4. He Needs Me
5. Love Me Or Leave Me
6. Blue Prelude
7. Mood Indigo
8. Willow Weep For Me
9. Can't Get Out Of This Mood
10. Don't Smoke In Bed
11. Plain Gold Ring
12. African Mailman
13. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
14. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
15. That's Him Over There
16. Good Bait
17. Children Go Where I Send You
18. You've Been Gone Too Long
19. Theme From "The Middle Of The Night"
20. The Other Woman
21. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
22. Fine And Mellow
23. Summertime
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About the artist
American singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger and civil rights activist, born 21 February 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA, died 21 April 2003 in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (aged 70)
Nina was giving piano recitals after playing at her local church at an early age. Her childhood piano lessons were funded by her mother's employer and a local fund set up by her music teacher, so impressed were they by her talent.
She moved to Philadelphia aged 17, teaching piano and playing to raise the money for her studies at New York's renowned Juilliard School Of Music. To fund her family she worked in a bar in Atlantic City where she was also required to sing and built up a devoted following.
She recorded Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" which became a US Top 20 hit and transported her to a bigger stage, performing at and the .
Her repertoire went on to embrace numerous civil rights anthems, a movement for which she was a passionate and prominent supporter. She left the US in the 1970s, moving first to Barbados, and some other places, including Africa and the Netherlands, before eventually settling in France where she died from cancer in 2003.
She won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Mother of Lisa Simone.
Source: Discogs