Nina Simone debuted her elegant take on “Wild Is the Wind” on 1959’s At Town Hall—a year after Johnny Mathis scored an Oscar nod for the standard—though it would be another seven years before Simone introduced her ominous studio version. Wild Is the Wind, one of three albums Simone...
While this album is not available in MQA there ARE a number of other Nina Simone albums up on Tidal in that audiophile format (marked with an “M” in a little cube). So, poke around and check out what you can find. Nina made a lot of recordings in her...
As an adult, Simone released her debut studio albumLittle Girl Bluein 1959. Simone released dozens of albums throughout her music career, with popular songs such as “I Put a Spell On You”, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” and “Feeling Good”. In 2019, Simone’s civil rights anth...
Nina Simone, Martin Luther King Jr., Marlon Brando, Taylor Branch, Dennis Banks, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ed Sullivan, Susanne Rostock, Les Crane, Merv Griffin, Peter, Paul and Mary, David Dinkins, Sr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Adé Bantu, Russell Means, Quincy Jones, Dr. Lloyd Greig, Leon Bibb,...