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 ...

Social media users have criticised the new trailer for The Kardashians series for using a Nina Simone song as its soundtrack. The new TV show, which will follow the reality star family during their ...

A quarter century of legal mania over the famed singer takes an explosive turn. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large In a long, complicated fight over the music of Nina Simone, the legendary ...

The further Lisa Simone gets in her career, the more she understands what her mother — the late jazz/blues/R&B great Nina Simone — went through. “Her voice rings in my ear a lot,” the singer and ...

Nina Simone fans have a reason for feeling good: A previously unreleased recording of the legendary artist’s set at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1966 is being released. Verve Records and UMe on ...

I remember how it ended. A bespectacled, lanky, light-skinned sister sporting two braided pigtails stepped up to the mic. She was rocking garden-green pants and a yellow spaghetti-strap tank top, and ...

There are certain figures in jazz history whose iconic status can be telegraphed by a single name. The pianist and singer Nina Simone seems to be... The High Priestess Of Soul: Nina Simone In 5 Songs ...

Before Brittany Howard turned 30, the dynamic singer and guitarist already had multiple musical lives on her résumé: leading the Grammy-winning Alabama Shakes, her punk-blues side project Thunderbitch ...

Ironically, the Beatles’ “Revolution” isn’t about a revolution — or is it? At different points, the lyrics promote and criticize the idea of a revolution. Above all, the track is ambivalent — while ...

In April, the singer, songwriter and pianist will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In anticipation, two compilations of Simone's early singles have been released. This is FRESH AIR. In ...