Nina Simone - Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings (CD) (US Import)
Nina Simone - Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings (CD) (US Import)
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Imported from the USA
- Artist
- Nina Simone
- EAN/UPC
- 0810075115901
- Product Type
- CD
- Cat No
- OVCD-610
- Released
- 2025
- Pressing
- USA
- Studio
- Omnivore Recordings
- Styles
- Soul, Vocal
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Description
Nina Simone — A Single Woman - The Complete Elektra Recordings
Format: CD • Label: Omnivore Recordings (OVCD-610) • Released: 2025 • Pressing: USA • Genre: Soul, Vocal
Tracklist:
1. A Single Woman
2. Lonesome Cities
3. If I Should Lose You
4. The Folks Who Live On The Hill
5. Love's Been Good To Me
6. Papa, Can You Hear Me?
7. Il N'y A Pas D'Amour Heureux
8. Just Say I Love Him
9. The More I See You
10. Marry Me
11. The Long And Winding Road
12. The Times They Are A-Changin'
13. Sign ‘O' The Times
14. Baseball Boogie
15. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
16. Do I Move You?
17. The Times They Are A-changin' (Alternate Take)
18. No Woman, No Cry
19. Do I Move You? (Take 1)
20. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Alternate Take)
21. Baseball Boogie (Instrumental)
Imported from the USA.
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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