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.

Even on paper, the song is emotionally loaded ... From the rafters, a stentorian voice finishes the list: “Nina.” –Daphne A. Brooks Nina Simone never had the widest vocal range or the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prior to finding the boats, Eric helps Sam complete her bucket list, which involves visiting ... memories involved a jazz club. The Nina Simone song’s iconic — "it’s a new dawn, it’s ...

“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 ...

"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 ...

Nina Simone was also an advocate for civil rights throughout her career. She used her platform as an artist to speak out against injustice and inequality, writing songs such as “Mississippi ...

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 ...