Blige, Lauryn Hill, Usher, and many more. With over 40 albums released during a career, how can you pick the top ten songs? Here’s our humble list of Nina Simone’s Top 10 Songs.

a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs. Just a week after performing at the historically Black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., supporting James Meredith’s March Against Fear, Nina Simone ...

I wanted to be the world's first black concert pianist for 22 years – Nina Simone The song Four Women ... sign up for The Essential List newsletter – a handpicked selection of features ...

“Nina Revisited,” featuring the likes of Lauryn Hill and Usher. What’s emerging is a complete portrait of Simone, from her sultry love songs (“I Loves You, Porgy”) to her strident civil ...

It includes songs by Fela Kuti, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder and two from Bob Marley and The Wailers among others. Beyoncé and Kanye West are both there too, with "Ultralight Beam" and "FREEDOM ...

You can’t quite get away with a straight reading of a Nina Simone song (though that’s not to say some of the artists on this list didn’t try). Simone’s voice should make her music wildly ...

"Nina Simone: Four Women," Milwaukee ... Christina Ham's play with substantial music dramatizes how Simone made civil rights activism the driving force in her songs following the 1963 bombing ...

by Nina Simone. (Verve Records/UMe via ... are issuing “You’ve Got to Learn,” a six-song set that includes a different take on Simone’s celebrated protest song “Mississippi Goddam.” ...

It was less than a decade ago that I first heard Nina Simone sing. It was Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released," and though I'd heard countless vocalists cover Dylan's songs, never before had I ...

Roston, left, and Brittney Mack perform in "Nina Simone ... As Ham's play begins, Simone is trying to write the song that would become "Mississippi Goddam," her protest anthem, when she is ...