Nina Simone Profile
July 1st, 2009
Photo: Getty Images
Born
February 21st, 1933 (died April 21st, 2003)
Key Tracks
“Mississippi Goddam,” “Four Women,” “I Wish Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”
Influenced
Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Erykah Badu
“White people had Judy Garland — we had Nina,” Richard Pryor once said. Nina Simone’s honey-coated, slightly adenoidal cry was one of the most affecting voices of the [...]