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Nina Simone At Town Hall - Nina Simone

Nina Simone At Town Hall

Nina Simone  

Format: 1 Vinyl

Genre: jazz, pop, Vocal

Barcode: 0889397218225

 

 
 

Artist

American singer, songwriter, pianist.

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 40 hit and transported her to a bigger stage, performing at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival.

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.

Nina's voice drew heavily on other music forms. It was infused with gospel, blues, soul, jazz, R&B, and folk. And it found a wider audience late in her life when "My Baby Just Cares For Me" became an unlikely UK chart hit when it featured in a TV ad campaign.

In fact her music stayed very popular with advertisers as her tracks have been used to promote a multitude of products on TV, including yoghurt ("Ain't Got No (I Got Life)"), Diet Coke ("I Put A Spell On You"), cars ("Sinnerman"), fabric conditioner ("Feeling Good"), and perfume ("Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"), et al.

Tracks

A1  Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair  03:30

A2  Exactly Like You  03:09

A3  The Other Woman  02:55

A4  Under The Lowest  05:24

A5  You Can Have Him  05:51

B1  Summertime (Vocal)  05:37

B2  Cotton Eyed Joe  02:54

B3  Return Home  05:23

B4  Wild Is The Wind  03:31

B5  Fine And Mellow  03:30

Releases

Formats

Vinyl, CD, Cassette

Labels

4 Men With Beards, WaxTime, Jazz Images, Vinyl Passion, DOL, Not Now Music, Hallmark Music & Entertainment, WaxTime In Color, Crackerjack Records , Green Line Records, Pye Records, PYE International, Astor, ANTAR , Pye Golden Guinea Records, Trip, Colpix Records, Naked Lunch , Official

Countries

Australia, Canada, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uruguay, Europe, UK & Europe, USA & Canada

years

1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1977, 1983, 1988, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Members

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