She often seemed to be considering these matters afresh in the course of a performance, and to be confronting the pleasure and distress of life so close to the edge of a parapet that an audience hung on her every move, uncertain as to whether or not she would fall off. music was about love and respect – and their opposites, particularly in relation to race. In her obituary in the Guardian (UK), John Fordham noted that, like all the century’s great American singers, Simone embodied a struggle between the optimism of a culture being born, and the pessimism occasioned by its cost. She digs at her notes, molds them into curious shapes.” Deusner wrote in a 2008 review of a 4-CD compilation, “Simone…remained at all times an incredibly physical singer. Nina Simone had one of music’s great, unmistakable voices: a rich, husky contralto that she deployed in often astonishing ways. ![]() Nina Simone (1933-2003), the ‘High Priestess of Soul’
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