I PUT A SPELL ON YOU...
Nina Simone: We listen hypnotised, stilled by the enthralling power, the voice and lyrics of she who has earned the title of High Priestess of Soul.
She was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on 21 February, 1933 into a humble black family of North Carolina, USA. Nina Simone was the sixth of eight siblings. Very early in her childhood she was unceremoniously confronted with the race question.
Nina Simone became not only a loud and powerful activist in the Black American civil rights movement, but also a vocal and insistent voice against the white centred standards of beauty that ruled and dominated African American women at the time. She sought and fought to inspire black women to assert themselves, to take pride in their black heritage, black beauty and black identity. She laboured tirelessly in this and other endeavours, to sustain and define black rights, culture, womenâs identity and beauty; in a roller coaster life of dizzying ups and downs. Nina Simone died on April 21, 2003.
She was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on 21 February, 1933 into a humble black family of North Carolina, USA. Nina Simone was the sixth of eight siblings. Very early in her childhood she was unceremoniously confronted with the race question.
Nina Simone became not only a loud and powerful activist in the Black American civil rights movement, but also a vocal and insistent voice against the white centred standards of beauty that ruled and dominated African American women at the time. She sought and fought to inspire black women to assert themselves, to take pride in their black heritage, black beauty and black identity. She laboured tirelessly in this and other endeavours, to sustain and define black rights, culture, womenâs identity and beauty; in a roller coaster life of dizzying ups and downs. Nina Simone died on April 21, 2003.