The singer Bob Dylan called an “overwhelming artist”
“She was an artist I definitely looked up to.”
Nina Simone
The artists Courtney Barnett thinks every kid should listen to: “I thought they were just old”
From Nina Simone to Lauryn Hill.
The remarkable moment Nina Simone predicted the future of pop music
“In order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards”.
“I was sobbing”: the Nina Simone song that taught Joanna Sternberg how to sing
“I didn’t know what my voice was.”
Greta Gerwig picks her favourite Nina Simone song: “I’m attracted to voices”
“The pain and the joy in her voice…”
‘Sinnerman’: the story of Nina Simone’s prescient masterpiece
Still resonating after all these years.
The Nina Simone song written in response to the death of Martin Luther King Jr
An incredible protest track from the civil rights era.
‘Four Women’: Nina Simone’s direct empowerment of women of colour
“We were all suffering from self-hatred.”
Nina Simone once discussed the stifling pressures faced by musicians
“Nobody’s going to understand or care that I’m too tired.”