Rest in Peace Nina Simone

[ultra]

We've lost another legend...the great Nina Simone passed away this morning in Paris...she was 70 years old.

Rest in Peace great songstress. You will be missed.

[Koffy Brown]

Ohhh Noooooo!!
:(
RIP...

[lola desire]

:( awwww... i'm sorry to hear this. i've only recently discovered her music; she is so fresh. hail.gif a true legend. thanks for the news.

r.i.p. nina!

[Fletch]

I can't confirm Nina, nor can I confirm the death of Cholly Atkins (Motown choreographer). If confirmed, that makes two giants in music/entertainment gone this weekend. :(

[mhd]

a true legend, one of the very, very best, rip

[richierich]

Rest in Peace.

[DJ Rated M]

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RIP, sista!!!

['Magic' Juan]

That's heartbreaking .... RIP Nina Simone. :(

magic_juan

[Leslie]

RIP

[TAC]

Mississippi GOD DMAN!!!

[imported_Gman]

RIP :(

[Shalewa]

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[sammyrock]

Yes may Nina Simone rest in peace.Nina played a major role in my qwest for the deeper side of music. :(

[IANPB not @ 40]

This is a great loss to our industry. Nina has motivated me to sing from the core of my being. She is a true icon in every sense of the word. Nina, thank you for being original, you will be greatly missed! "Forbidden Fruit" album, check it!

[YUJI-SAN]

R.I.P.

[AD]

This is a sad day. May she rest in peace. :(

[DJ Timmy Richardson]

I grew up on "Too be young, gifted and black" Could never understand how she held that note. RIP

[DJ George Bates]

Damn... :(

I was introduced to Nina Simone by an ex girlfriend a long time ago...Wow.

I'm really sorry to hear this. graemlins/mecry.gif

Her music truly is very special to me.

RIP

[mercado]

RIP

[Fletch]

Two of the biggest Nina Simone "clones" are Roberta Flack and Billy Paul. Those two educated themselves well in Nina 101. Yes. they have their own style, but you can hear the Nina influence in their singing. Peace.

[Reggie]

Nina was a true pioneer.....a trailblazer.....a diva. Lets make sure that her music and others like her will be pass on to new ears.

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[Mah'chew]

Sad news - but what a life! smile.gif

[Walter M. Jones]

RIP Nina.

[MsTiye78]

Nina Simone will be greatly missed. I regret i didn't get a chance to see in her concert a few years back. Favorite songs from Nina are "ne me quitte pas", "four women", "wild is the wind", "consummation", "see line woman" (live version), "black is the color of my true loves' hair", "my man's gone now", "in the dark", "sunday in savannah" and more i can't think of right now. Yes Nina would be greatly missed.


(1967) nina simone

And now we are one
Let my soul rest in peace
At last it is done
My soul has been released
For thousands of years
My soul has roamed the earth
In search for you
So that someday i could give birth

To know joy, joy, joy, joy
Joy and peace is mine
Peace divine
And now we give thanks
Give thanks for each other
At peace forever
For it is done

At peace forever
For we are one


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Wade me in the water until Atlantis is found on the sea floor of self - saul williams

she had eyes like two turntables mix(h)er in between my dreams and reality blend in ancient themes - saul williams

[ April 22, 2003, 09:19 AM: Message edited by: tiye ]

[YUJI-SAN]

whereever she is "Shes feeling good" biggrinangel.gif

[Sam The Man Burns]

God Blessed us with your unique talents.
We are all better for it.

God rest your Soul Nina.

[Jamie 3:26]

Ohh my goodness!!!I am sadly shoken with this news.RIP Nina.She influenced me and her music means a lot to me.I am at a loss of words now.... :(

[rob gregory]

Peace.

I remember always hearing about Nina Simone, but never had any of her songs. I picked up a greatest hits compilation and I was blown away. "Four Women" is a haunting song that will stay with me always.

RIP

[mhd]

Originally posted by DJ Timmy Richardson:
I grew up on "Too be young, gifted and black" Could never understand how she held that note. RIP so true brother, that song shaped so many of us as shorties, and still does to this day.

i was lucky to see her last year in concert

[Tenyu]

http://www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk/newra/funkierthan.rm

[lyot]

this is sad news..I've been blown away by so many of the tracks she did..

[P-Flipp]

Her voice was rich,elegant and one of a kind.We will miss her very much. graemlins/mecry.gif

[Fletch]

There may be a memorial broadcast of her music on wkcr.org. They always have memorial broadcasts. Peace.

[ April 22, 2003, 05:36 AM: Message edited by: einnod23 ]

[David Le C]

Too sad, her music played a special role in my life, and I will cherish her memory through her music... graemlins/mecry.gif

[%seRge%]

I am soooo sorry I missed her show @ Carnegie Hall last April.
My favorite song tat she did is, "Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter"

RIP

You're nothing but a dirty, dirty old man
You do your thinking with a one track mind
Keep talkin' about heaven glory but
On your face is a different story
Clean up your rap your story's getting dusty
Wash out your mouth
Your lies are getting rusty
Can't believe nothing you say
'Cause I'm around and I see what you do
You know you're funky as a mosquito's tweeter
You gotta mouth like a herd of boll weevils
Same old game, same old thing
You never changed
Always rappin 'bout the same old thing

I got something to tell ya
I got something to tell you baby
But you ain't hip to baby
Blowin' minds is a thing of the past
You blew your chance that's why you never last
You want to be a graduate mother
But in reality just another brother
You think you slick but could
Stand a lot of greasing
The things you do ain't never really pleasin'
Can't believe nothin' you say
'Cause I'm around and I see what you do
You know you funky as a mosquito's tweeter
You got a mouth like a herd of boll weevils
Same old game, same old thing
A...lways rappin 'bout the same old thing
You beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful, beautiful

Brought yoursef a pot of baked stew
Nothin' worse than an educated fool
Talkin' sex is your favorite conversation
But peace and love is a famous generation
What's in your head has really started
Showing your conversation gettin' kinda boring
Can't believe nothin' you say
'Cause I'm around and I see what you do
You know you funky as a mosquito's tweeter
You got a mouth like a herd of boll weevils
Same old game, same old game
Same old thing you never change
Same old game, same old thing
Always rappin' 'bout the same old thing

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[Martin Red]

Thanks for all you brought to this world.

Rest in Peace

[ April 22, 2003, 06:05 AM: Message edited by: Martin Red ]

[imported_Kohtake]

I Loves You Porgy... RIP graemlins/mecry.gif

[Wild i]

I, too, am deeply saddened by the passing of a truly unique and gifted artist. I cut my jazz teeth on "Mood Indigo," "Wild is the Wind," "Black is the Color," and the like.

A child prodigy, Madame Simone was the rarest of talents. Like Nat "King" Cole, she was one of the very few artists fully capable of self accompaniment. That is, she could sing in full voice while playing melody and rhthym. Most artists play a little, sing a little and while singing, only play rhthym or "chords." I was always amazed at how she could seamlessly slip into a classical riff from jazz and back. I was my oldest brother, himself a pianist in his younger days, who pointed out that, not only could she play jazz and classical at the same time, it seemed as if each of her fingers was playing a different tune. There are many, many excellent pianists in the world (I am just starting to truly appreciate salsa keyboard players... amazing) but listen to Nina, the clarity with which she strikes every key hard core and gentle.

Finally, Lady Simone was unafraid to speak out on issues of injustice and sacrificed her American career to stand up for what she felt was right.

I pray that she is now finding the justice she had always sought. I know that another arch-angel watches over us now. Rest in Peace.

[Koffy Brown]

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[ncho]

RIP...her music and influence live on....

from AP
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NEW YORK (AP) - Like her husky, soulful voice, Nina Simone was hard to categorize.

She was a classically trained pianist, yet gained fame singing in a style reminiscent of Billie Holiday. She later became known as a protest singer for penning fiery songs that chronicled the pain, pride and hope of the U.S. civil rights movement.

Yet she refused to be restricted in the kind of material she performed, and channeled songs from artists as varied as Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill and the Bee Gees.

"She had incredible talent," said friend and jazz concert promoter George Wein. "She was different and creative, and there must have been a touch of genius in her mind."

"There was never anyone like Nina Simone, before or since," he said.

The multifaceted entertainer died at her home in the south of France on Monday at age 70. Her manager, Cliff Henderson, who was at Simone's bedside at her death, said she died of "natural causes" in her sleep after a long illness. He did not disclose the illness or provide the name of the town where she lived.

Simone influenced artists including Norah Jones, India.Arie, Peter Gabriel, Sade and Aretha Franklin. Franklin even rerecorded one of Simone's most famous songs, "To Be Young, Gifted and Black."

"I think she's probably one of the greatest black female singers of all time," said Rob Santos, and executive with BMG Heritage, which is putting out an anthology of Simone's this summer. "Nina Simone is hard to peg because she crosses so many boundaries ... anything you gave her she could sing."

Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in 1933 in North Carolina, Simone was one of eight children in a poor family. She began playing the piano at age 4 and was classically trained, attending the Juilliard School in New York for one year. She had hoped to attend the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, but was rejected - one of many disappointments she would attribute to racism.

She turned to singing jazz and popular music as a way to make money, performing in nightclubs. In the late 1950s Simone started recording songs, and gained fame in 1959 with her recording of "I Loves You Porgy," from the opera "Porgy & Bess."

Simone later wove the turbulent 1960s into her music. In 1963, after the church bombing that killed four young black girls in Birmingham, Ala., and the slaying of Medgar Evers, she wrote "Mississippi Goddam," with searing lyrics that included the lines: "Oh but this whole country is full of lies, You're all gonna die and die like flies."

"She had incredible guts, which I think that's why she never had the mass appeal that she should have had," said Santos. "She really was her own person, and she definitely didn't hold back."

After the killing of The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., she recorded "Why? The King of Love Is Dead."

"That's what separated Nina from the other singers," Wein said. "Nina took civil rights and the movement, the fight to another level, and made it part of her persona."

She left the United States in 1973 and lived in the Caribbean and Africa before settling in Europe. She didn't return to the United States until 1985 for a series of concerts.

In a 1998 interview, Simone blamed racism in the United States for her decision to live abroad, saying that as a black person, she had "paid a heavy price for fighting the establishment."

Wein said she was extremely bitter.

"She was a black woman who never could relate to the position of what it was to be black in America. She couldn't understand it," he said. "She was an unhappy person."

Simone enjoyed perhaps her greatest success in the 1960s and '70s, with songs such as "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and "Four Women." She took risks with her song choices, covering a range of popular tunes. She growled in "The Pirate Jenny" from "Threepenny Opera" and breezed through "New World Coming" and "My Way," turning both songs into anthems of the 1970s.

Folk and blues blended with tunes like "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," and her jazz colorings on "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" emphasized not only her keyboard manipulations but her ability to perform any song Simone-style.

In her last years, she remained a concert draw, though she was frail; at a 2001 concert at Carnegie Hall, she needed help to her piano, and was later seen sitting backstage in a wheelchair.

Yet, with an indelible mix of charm, whimsy and rage, she managed to work the crowd into a frenzy, commanding several standing ovations and a raucous demand for an encore, to which she tottered to the microphone and uttered: "Go Home!"

Simone, who was divorced twice, is survived by a daughter, Lisa - a singer who goes by Simone. She's starring in Broadway's "Aida" and has recorded with the group Liquid Soul.


peace,
-g-

[Bill B.]

Rest in peace.

[Maria]

RIP Miss Simone.

[nev m]

Rest in peace Nina.

Your music will live forever.

[manfred]

my baby just cares for me...

[DD Licious]

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