The jazz vocalist, composer, pianist, and arranger Nina Simone's song "Four Women" was included on the album Wild Is the Wind in 1966. There are four African American women whose stories are told. The four characters each stand in for a societal stereotype of African Americans. The song, in the words of Thulani Davis of The Village Voice, was "an instantly accessible analysis of the damning legacy of slavery, that made iconographic the real women we knew and would become." The first of the four women mentioned in the song is Aunt Sarah, a figure who stands i… read more
The jazz vocalist, composer, pianist, and arranger Nina Simone's song "Four Women" was included on the album Wild Is the Wind in 1966.… read more
The jazz vocalist, composer, pianist, and arranger Nina Simone's song "Four Women" was included on the album Wild Is the Wind in 1966. There are four African American wome… read more
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, soul, folk, rhythm and blues, gospel, and pop. Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on 21st February 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA, one of eight children. Like a number of other black singers in the U.S., she was inspired as a child by Marian Anderson, an… read more
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated… read more
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a c… read more
