Listen: Jenny Lewis and Eric Burdon - “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstand” (Nina Simone Cover)
Next month HBO's sexualized vampire soap opera True Blood returns with a new season.
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Next month HBO's sexualized vampire soap opera True Blood returns with a new season.
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Zoe Saldana replaced Mary J. Blige as Nina Simone in a biopic of the jazz singer.
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But now, in an interview with HipHollywood, Saldaña — who is of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent, and describes herself as black and Latina — said: "What keeps me focused and what kept me from getting stressed from being hurt by the comments is I'm doing it for my sisters, I'm doing it for my brothers, and I don't care who tells me I am not this and I am not that. I know who I am, and I know what Nina Simone means to me.
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In 1969, while a graduate student at Notre Dame, I had a one-night career on WNDU, the campus radio station.
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Sony Legacy Recordings is featuring the legendary singer as their "Artist of the Month" for February, and we've partnered up with them to bring you a pretty cool prize package.
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Morgan James has got one of those voices that resounds through the ages.
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You want to like bassist/singer/auteur-gone-rogue Ndegeocello's oddball homage to La Simone, but she doesn't make it easy.
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Controversy surrounding the casting of actress Zoe Saldana in a biopic of iconic jazz singer Nina Simone continues to heat up with a Change.org petition requesting the replacement of the "Avatar" actress with "an actress who actually looks like Nina Simone" gaining steam.
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A few days ago my friend Aka Tell showed me this little gem on a train ride from Linz to Vienna, and I was blown away.
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When actress Zoe Saldana agreed to take on the role of Nina Simone in the film Nina, she most likely didn't suspect that her casting would be such a huge controversy.
Read MoreSinger-songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello shares her adoration for Nina Simone with The Record.
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Daniela Gesundheit from Snowblink shares her top five albums with The 405.
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"Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" finds her breathy voice haunted by hanging mellotron, while the familiar rousing roll of "Feeling Good" here becomes a more quietly contemplative affair, refocusing attention on the lyric.
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Meshell Ndegeocello won't say what she's cooking.
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For most true soul lovers, the pairing of the genre-defying MeShell Ndegeocello and Mr.
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Saldana has her work cut out for her, since MJB can belt like Simone.
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Ed Sheeran burst onto the scene in the U.S. this year with his folky song 'The A-Team.'
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Ed Sheeran covers Nina Simone 's "Be My Husband" as captured in "The Live Room!"
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Me'Shell Ndegéocello hearts Nina Simone.
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The album brings together songs that the iconic Simone made famous, both songs that she wrote or were written for her.
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Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band died yesterday.
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A classically-minded pianist and singer whose oeuvre encompassed jazz, folk, soul, gospel and beyond, Nina Simone 's discography contains more than forty live and studio albums released in her lifetime.
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Last week John Gleason guested on AD touting the lesser known side of the Bee Gees, making a case for their catalog being equal to or greater than the Beatles.
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Now this is how you do an acoustic cover.
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Earlier this year Simone (born Lisa Celeste Stroud), the daughter of singer Nina Simone paid homage to her iconic mother on Mother's Day with the re-launch of NinaSimone.com. Serving as the executor of her mother's estate, Simone plans to feature exclusive content including unreleased songs, video performances, a 24-7 Internet radio station, interviews and guest commentary, among other things.
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We'll pass on a full reading on the enigmatic and influential voice of Nina Simone (having already acknowledged her power as a Founding Mother of R&B just a few weeks ago).
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Born Eunice Waymon in North Carolina in 1933, the future Nina Simone was found to have prodigious musical talent at a young age.
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Paloma Faith has collaborated with Music Matters to create a short animated film about why Music Matters and specifically Nina Simone. which you can watch at www.whymusicmatters.org/videos Music Matters aims to get people thinking about the enduring value of music and the ethical choices they make when consuming music as well as to educate people about these choices.
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