Nina Simone was a complicated woman. That complexity was one of many things about her that launched her to stardom as one of the most revered and beloved jazz and R&B singer/songwriters of her ...

TRYON, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - A singer, pianist, songwriter and activist, Nina Simone’s musical talents led her to international stardom. Her music blending gospel, blues folk and pop is still admired ...

The house is located in Tryon, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund A dilapidated three-room house in North Carolina, where a ...

Before the American public knew her as Nina Simone “the high priestess of soul,” Eunice Kathleen Waymon was already making a name for herself in Western North Carolina. Born in 1933 at 30 East ...

For Alexander Simone, legacy is walking down the road created by two iconic Black women while paving his own. As the grandson of jazz and soul legend Nina Simone and the son of singer and actress Lisa ...

We trace the lineage of rapid-response songs, from Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone to Bruce Springsteen's quick turnaround on "Streets of Minneapolis" ...