Editing Nina Simone (section)

==Biography==
===1933–1954: Early life===
Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21, 1933, in [[Tryon, North Carolina]]; the sixth of eight children in a respected family.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Cohodas|2010|p=5}}</ref> Her father, John Divine Waymon, worked as a [[barber]] and [[Dry cleaning|dry-cleaner]] as well as an entertainer. Her mother, Mary Kate Irvin, was a Methodist preacher.<ref>[https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/nina-simone Mariana Brandman, "Nina Simone", ''National Women's History Museum'']. Retrieved May 12, 2022</ref> Simone began playing piano at the age of three or four; the first song she learned was "God Be With You, Till We Meet Again".<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Cohodas|2010|p=16}}</ref> Demonstrating a talent with the piano, she performed at her local church. Her concert debut, a classical [[Concert#Recital|recital]], was given when she was 12. Simone later said that during this performance, her parents, who had taken seats in the front row, were forced to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Cohodas|2010|p=37}}</ref> She said that she refused to play until her parents were moved back to the front,<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|p=26}}.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Hampton|2004|p=15}}.</ref> and that the incident contributed to her later involvement in the [[civil rights movement]].<ref name="Shatz">{{cite magazine |last1=Shatz |first1=Adam |title=The Fierce Courage of Nina Simone |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/03/10/fierce-courage-nina-simone/ |website=The New York Review of Books |access-date=February 7, 2018 |date=March 10, 2016}}</ref> Simone's music teacher helped establish a special fund to pay for her education.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|p=21}}.</ref> Subsequently, a local fund was set up to assist her continued education. With the help of this scholarship money, she was able to attend [[Allen School (Asheville, North Carolina)|Allen High School for Girls]] in [[Asheville, North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/nina-simone|work=womenshistory.org|title=Nina Simone|author=Mariana Brandman|year=2022}}</ref>

After her graduation, Simone spent the summer of 1950 at the [[Juilliard School]] as a student of [[Carl Friedberg]], preparing for an audition at the [[Curtis Institute of Music]] in [[Philadelphia]].<ref name="BotW" /> Her application, however, was denied. Only three of 72 applicants were accepted that year,<ref name=Dobrin>{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/peter_dobrin/20150816_Curtis_and_the_case_of_Nina_Simone.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527143034/http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/peter_dobrin/20150816_Curtis_and_the_case_of_Nina_Simone.html |archive-date=May 27, 2018 |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |title=Curtis Institute and the case of Nina Simone |author=Peter Dobrin |date=August 16, 2015 |access-date=April 13, 2019 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> but as her family had relocated to Philadelphia in the expectation of her entry to Curtis, the blow to her aspirations was particularly heavy. For the rest of her life, she claimed that her application had been denied because of racial prejudice, a charge the staff at Curtis have denied,<ref name=Light2016/> particularly as [[Blanche Burton-Lyles]] and [[George Walker (composer)|George Walker]] had both studied at Curtis.<ref name=Dobrin/>

Discouraged, she took private piano lessons with [[Vladimir Sokoloff (pianist)|Vladimir Sokoloff]], a professor at Curtis, but never could re-apply. At the time the Curtis Institute did not accept students over 21. She took a job as a photographer's assistant, found work as an accompanist at [[Arlene Smith]]'s vocal studio, and taught piano from her home in Philadelphia.<ref name="BotW" />

===1954–1959: Early success===
In order to fund her private lessons, Simone performed at the Midtown Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]], [[New Jersey]], whose owner insisted that she sing as well as play the piano, which increased her income to $90 a week. In 1954, she adopted the stage name "Nina Simone". "Nina", derived from ''[[wiktionary:niña|niña]]'', was a nickname given to her by a boyfriend named Chico,<ref name="BotW">{{cite web |last1=Light |first1=Alan |title=Episode 3, What Happened, Miss Simone?, Book of the Week - BBC Radio 4 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hd1y3 |website=BBC |access-date=March 9, 2017}}</ref> and "Simone" was taken from the French actress [[Simone Signoret]], whom she had seen in the 1952 movie ''[[Casque d'Or]]''.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|BarónALio-Lambert|2006|p=56}}</ref> Knowing her mother would not approve of her playing "the Devil's music", she used her new stage name to remain undetected. Simone's mixture of jazz, [[blues]], and classical music in her performances at the bar earned her a small but loyal fan base.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|pp=48–52}}</ref>

In 1958, she befriended and married Don Ross, a [[beatnik]] who worked as a [[Barker (occupation)|fairground barker]], but quickly regretted their marriage.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nina-simone-730232.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223155110/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nina-simone-730232.html |archive-date=February 23, 2009 |location=London, UK |work=The Independent |title=Nina Simone obituary |url-status=dead |date=April 23, 2003}}</ref> Playing in small clubs in the same year, she recorded [[George Gershwin]]'s "[[I Loves You, Porgy]]" (from ''[[Porgy and Bess]]''), which she learned from a [[Billie Holiday]] album and performed as a favor to a friend. It became her only ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' top&nbsp;20 success in the United States, and her debut album ''[[Little Girl Blue (album)|Little Girl Blue]]'' followed in February 1959 on [[Bethlehem Records]].<ref name="Cash Box Mar59">{{cite news |title=February Album Releases |url=https://americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/50s/1959/CB-1959-02-14-OCR-Page-0027.pdf |access-date=September 26, 2019 |work=The Cash Box |publisher=The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY |date=February 14, 1959}}</ref><ref name="BSNPubs">{{cite web |last1=Callahan |first1=Mike |last2=Edwards |first2=David |title=The Bethlehem Records Story |url=https://www.bsnpubs.com/king/bethlehem/bethlehemstory.html |publisher=Both Sides Now Publications |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727212613/https://www.bsnpubs.com/king/bethlehem/bethlehemstory.html |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Goldmine 2009">{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide |date=2009 |publisher=Penguin |location=London |isbn=9781440229169 |page=2123 |edition=6th}}</ref>  Because she had sold her [[Music licensing|rights]] outright for $3,000, Simone lost more than $1 million in royalties (notably for the 1980s re-release of her version of the [[jazz standard]] "[[My Baby Just Cares for Me]]") and never benefited financially from the album's sales.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|p=60}}.</ref>

===1959–1964: Burgeoning popularity ===
After the success of ''Little Girl Blue'', Simone signed a contract with producer [[Hecky Krasnow]] at [[Colpix Records]] and recorded a multitude of [[Studio album|studio]] and [[live albums]]. Colpix relinquished all [[creative control]] to her, including the choice of material that would be recorded, in exchange for her signing the contract with them. After the release of her live album ''[[Nina Simone at Town Hall]]'', Simone became a favorite performer in [[Greenwich Village]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Dorian |first=Lynskey |date=2010 |title=33Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |page=94 |isbn=978-0-571-24134-7}}</ref> By this time, Simone performed [[pop music]] only to make money to continue her classical music studies and was indifferent about having a recording contract. She kept this attitude toward the record industry for most of her career.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|p=65}}</ref>

Simone married Andrew Stroud, a [[detective]] with the [[New York City Police Department|New York Police Department]], in December 1961. In a few years he became her [[Talent manager|manager]] and the father of her daughter [[Lisa Simone|Lisa]], but Simone later claimed that he abused her psychologically and physically.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Stroud">{{Cite web |url=https://riverdalepress.com/stories/andrew-stroud-was-lieutenant-and-manager-to-nina-simone,50725 |title=Andrew Stroud was lieutenant and manager to Nina Simone (obituary) |date=July 25, 2012 |work=The Riverdale Press |access-date=October 25, 2020}}</ref> Simone said that Stroud treated her "like a [[work horse]]" in an interview with the BBC in 1999.<ref name=":3" />

===1964–1974: Civil Rights era===
{{multiple image|direction=horizontal|align=right|total_width=350|image1=Nina Simone 1965 - restoration1.jpg|image2=Nina Simone (1965).jpg|footer=Simone during a [[Photo shoot|photoshoot]] in 1965}}
In 1964, Simone changed record distributors from Colpix, an American company, to the Dutch [[Philips Records]], which meant a change in the content of her recordings. She had always included songs in her repertoire that drew on her African-American heritage, such as "Brown Baby" by [[Oscar Brown]] and "Zungo" by [[Babatunde Olatunji|Michael Olatunji]] on her album ''[[Nina at the Village Gate]]'' in 1962. On her debut album for Philips, ''[[Nina Simone in Concert]]'' (1964), for the first time she addressed racial inequality in the United States in the song "[[Mississippi Goddam]]". This was her response to the June 12, 1963, murder of [[Medgar Evers]] and the September 15, 1963, [[16th Street Baptist Church bombing|bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church]] in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young black girls and partly blinded a fifth. She said that the song was "like throwing ten bullets back at them", becoming one of many other protest songs written by Simone. The song was released as a single, and it was boycotted in some{{vague|date=August 2018}} southern states.<ref name=seeingblack>{{cite web |url=http://www.seeingblack.com/2003/x060403/nina_simone.shtml |title=Nina Simone: She Cast a Spell—and Made a Choice |publisher=SeeingBlack.com|access-date=August 14, 2007 |last=Neal |first=Mark Anthony |date=June 4, 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715151155/http://www.seeingblack.com/2003/x060403/nina_simone.shtml |archive-date=July 15, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|pp=90–91}}.</ref> Promotional copies were smashed by a Carolina radio station and returned to Philips.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ford |first=Tanisha C. |title=Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul |page=86}}</ref>

She later recalled how "Mississippi Goddam" was her "first civil rights song" and that the song came to her "in a rush of fury, hatred and determination". The song challenged the belief that race relations could change gradually and called for more immediate developments: "me and my people are just about due." It was a key moment in her path to Civil Rights activism.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Feldstein |first=Ruth |author-link=Ruth Feldstein |year=2005 |title="I Don't Trust You Anymore": Nina Simone, Culture, and Black Activism in the 1960s |jstor=3660176 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=91 |issue=4 |pages=1349–1379|doi=10.2307/3660176 }}</ref> "Old Jim Crow", on the same album, addressed the [[Jim Crow laws]]. After "Mississippi Goddam", a [[civil rights]] message was the norm in Simone's recordings and became part of her concerts. As her political activism rose, the rate of release of her music slowed.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

Simone performed and spoke at civil rights meetings, such as at the [[Selma to Montgomery marches]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boscarol.com/ninasimone/pages/nina/chrono.php |title=The Nina Simone Database: Timeline |access-date=July 5, 2010 |year=2010}}</ref> Like [[Malcolm X]], her neighbor in [[Mount Vernon, New York]], she supported [[black nationalism]] and advocated violent revolution rather than [[Martin Luther King Jr.]]'s non-violent approach.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003}}.</ref> She hoped that African Americans could use armed combat to form a separate state, though she wrote in her autobiography that she and her family regarded all races as equal.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|pp=100, 109, 110}}</ref>[[File:Nina Simone 1969.jpg|thumb|right|302x302px|Simone at [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol]] in [[Amsterdam, Netherlands]] in March 1969]]

In 1967, Simone moved from Philips to [[RCA Victor]]. She sang "Backlash Blues" written by her friend, Harlem Renaissance leader [[Langston Hughes]], on her first RCA Victor album, ''[[Nina Simone Sings the Blues]]'' (1967). On ''[[Silk & Soul]]'' (1967), she recorded [[Billy Taylor]]'s "[[I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free]]" and "Turning Point". The album ''[['Nuff Said! (Nina Simone album)|'Nuff Said!]]'' (1968) contained live recordings from the [[Westbury Music Fair]] of April 7, 1968, three days after the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]] She dedicated the performance to him and sang "Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)", a song written by her bass player, [[Gene Taylor (bassist)|Gene Taylor]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|pp=114–115}}</ref> In 1969, she performed at the [[Harlem Cultural Festival]] in Harlem's [[Marcus Garvey Park|Mount Morris Park]]. The performance was recorded and is featured in [[Questlove]]'s 2021 documentary ''[[Summer of Soul]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Deggans |first1=Eric |title='Summer Of Soul' Celebrates A 1969 Black Cultural Festival Eclipsed By Woodstock |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1010306918/summer-of-soul-questlove-movie-review-harlem-cultural-festival |work=NPR.org |date=July 1, 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://greenpleasantland.com|title=Parks and Recreation: Harlem at a Crossroads in the Summer of '69|author=Greene, Bryan|publisher=Poverty and Race Research Action Council|date=June 2017}}</ref>

Simone and [[Weldon Irvine]] turned the unfinished play ''[[To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play)|To Be Young, Gifted and Black]]'' by [[Lorraine Hansberry]] into a civil rights song of [[To Be Young, Gifted and Black|the same name]]. She credited her friend Hansberry with cultivating her social and political consciousness. She performed the song live on the album ''[[Black Gold (Nina Simone album)|Black Gold]]'' (1970). A studio recording was released as a single, and renditions of the song have been recorded by [[Aretha Franklin]] (on her 1972 album ''[[Young, Gifted and Black]]'') and [[Donny Hathaway]].<ref name=seeingblack/> When reflecting on this period, she wrote in her autobiography: "I felt more alive then than I feel now because I was needed, and I could sing something to help my people."<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Cohodas|2010|p=345}}</ref>

===1974–1993: Later life===
In an interview for ''[[Jet Magazine|Jet]]'' magazine, Simone stated that her controversial song "Mississippi Goddam" harmed her career. She claimed that the music industry punished her by boycotting her records.<ref>{{cite periodical |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7EDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54 |magazine= Jet |title=Nina Simone reveals: 'Mississippi Goddam' song 'hurt my career' |date=March 24, 1986 |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |language=en |pages=54–55 |volume=70 | number=1 |editor-first= Sylvia P. |editor-last=Flanagan | display-editors= etal}}</ref> Hurt and disappointed, Simone left the US in September 1970, flying to [[Barbados]] and expecting her husband and manager Stroud to communicate with her when she had to perform again. However, Stroud interpreted Simone's sudden disappearance, and the fact that she had left behind her wedding ring, as an indication of her desire for a divorce. As her manager, Stroud was in charge of Simone's income. When Simone returned to the United States, she learned that a warrant had been issued for her arrest for unpaid taxes (allegedly unpaid as [[Tax resistance|a protest]] against her country's involvement with the [[Vietnam War]]) and fled to Barbados to evade the authorities and prosecution.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|pp=120–122}}</ref> Simone stayed in Barbados for quite some time and had a lengthy affair with the Prime Minister, [[Errol Barrow]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Simone|Cleary|2003|pp=129–134}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Brun-Lambert|2006|p=231}}.</ref> A close friend, singer [[Miriam Makeba]], then persuaded her to go to [[Liberia]].<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |last1=Dargis |first1=Manohla |date=June 23, 2015 |title=Review: 'What Happened, Miss Simone?' Documents Nina Simone's Rise as Singer and Activist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/movies/review-what-happened-miss-simone-documents-nina-simones-rise-as-singer-and-activist.html |access-date=July 17, 2018 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref> When Simone relocated, she abandoned her daughter Lisa in [[Mount Vernon, New York|Mount Vernon]].<ref name=":1">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/10-things-we-learned-from-new-nina-simone-doc-59571/ |title=10 Things We Learned From New Nina Simone Doc |last=Lee |first=Christina |date=June 29, 2015 |magazine=Rolling Stone }}</ref> Lisa eventually reunited with Simone in Liberia, but, according to Lisa, her mother was physically and mentally abusive.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/nina-simone-daughter-details-pain-abuse-netflix-article-1.2268391|title=Nina Simone's daughter details pain and abuse in a Netflix documentary|last=Daniels|first=Karu F.|date=June 24, 2015|website=New York Daily News}}</ref> The [[Child abuse|abuse]] was so unbearable that Lisa became suicidal and she moved back to New York to live with her father.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />[[File:Nina Simone14.JPG|thumb|right|Simone at a concert in [[Morlaix]], France, May 1982|240x240px]]

Simone recorded her last album for RCA, ''It Is Finished'', in 1974, and did not make another record until 1978, when she was persuaded to go into the recording studio by [[CTI Records]] owner [[Creed Taylor]]. The result was the album ''[[Baltimore (album)|Baltimore]]'', which, while not a commercial success, was fairly well received critically and marked a quiet artistic renaissance in Simone's recording output.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=18123 |title=All about Jazz: review "Fodder on My Wings" & "Baltimore" |last=Sunderland |first=Celeste |date=July 1, 2005 |access-date=August 5, 2007}}</ref> Her choice of material retained its eclecticism, ranging from spiritual songs to [[Hall & Oates]]' "[[Rich Girl (Hall & Oates song)|Rich Girl]]". Four years later, Simone recorded ''[[Fodder on My Wings]]'' on a French label, [[Studio Davout]].{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

During the 1980s, Simone performed regularly at [[Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club]] in London, where she recorded the album ''[[Live at Ronnie Scott's (Nina Simone album)|Live at Ronnie Scott's]]'' in 1984. Although her early on-stage style could be somewhat haughty and aloof, in later years, Simone particularly seemed to enjoy engaging with her audiences sometimes, by recounting humorous anecdotes related to her career and music and by soliciting requests.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} By this time she stayed everywhere and nowhere. She lived in Liberia, Barbados and Switzerland and eventually ended up in Paris. There she regularly performed in a small jazz club called ''Aux Trois Mailletz'' for relatively small financial reward. The performances were sometimes brilliant and at other times Nina Simone gave up after fifteen minutes. Often she was too drunk to sing or play the piano properly. At other times she scolded the audience,<ref name="sonjaalferink.nl">Alferink, Sonja (March/April 2015), [https://sonjaalferink.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/JAZZ02_SabrinaStarke-P.pdf "Diva in de polder"], ''Sabrina Starke'', pp. 110–115.</ref> so that manager Raymond Gonzalez, guitarist Al Schackman and Gerrit de Bruin, a Dutch friend of hers, decided to intervene.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

In 1987, Simone scored a major European hit with the song "[[My Baby Just Cares for Me]]". Recorded by her for the first time in 1958, the song was used in a commercial for [[Chanel No. 5]] perfume in Europe, leading to a re-release of the recording. The song reached number 4 on the UK's ''[[NME]]'' singles chart, giving Simone a brief surge in popularity in the UK and elsewhere.<ref name="sonjaalferink.nl" />

[[File:Hotel Belvoir Nijmegen. Residence of Nina Simone between 1988 and 1991. Graadt van Roggenstraat.jpg|thumb|Hotel Belvoir, [[Nijmegen]], Netherlands; Simone's apartment between 1988 and 1991 was next to this building.|230x230px]]

In the spring of 1988, Simone moved to [[Nijmegen]] in the [[Netherlands]]. She bought an apartment next to the Belvoir Hotel with views of the [[Waalbrug]] and Ooijpolder, with the help of her friend Gerrit de Bruin, who lived with his family a few corners away. Simone was diagnosed with [[bipolar disorder]] by a friend of De Bruin, who prescribed [[Trilafon]] (perphenazine) for her. Despite the illness, it was generally a happy time for Simone in Nijmegen, where she could lead a fairly anonymous life. Only a few recognized her; most Nijmegen people did not know who she was. Slowly but surely her life started to improve, and she was even able to make money from the Chanel commercial after a legal battle. In 1991 Nina Simone exchanged Nijmegen for [[Amsterdam]], where she lived for two years with friends and Hammond.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://petesboogie.blogspot.com/2015/12/nina-simone-in-nijmegen.html|language=nl|last=Schong|first=Peter|date=December 11, 2015|website=petesboogie.blogspot.com|title=Nina Simone in Nijmegen: toevluchtsoord aan de Waal}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=February 2024}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gelderlander.nl/nijmegen/het-nijmeegse-geluk-van-nina-simone~a158f193/|title=Het Nijmeegse geluk van Nina Simone|work=De Gelderlander|language=nl|date=August 13, 2010}}</ref>

===1993–2003: Final years, illness and death===
In 1993, Simone settled near [[Aix-en-Provence]] in southern France ([[Bouches-du-Rhône]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/nl/article/de-nederlandse-jaren-van-nina-simone/ |title=''De Nederlandse jaren van Nina Simone'' ("The Dutch Years of Nina Simone") |last=Fortuin |first=Fiona |date=November 27, 2015 |website=Noisey |language=nl |access-date=December 15, 2018}}</ref><!-- help provide further verified information about Simone's later life. --> In the same year, her final album, ''[[A Single Woman (album)|A Single Woman]]'', was released. She variously contended that she married or had a love affair with a Tunisian around this time, but that their relationship ended because, "His family didn't want him to move to France, and France didn't want him because he's a North African."<ref>Sources:
* {{cite interview |last=Bardin |first=Brantley |subject-link=Nina Simone |title=Legend-with-an-attitude Nina Simone breaks her silence. And you'd better listen.  |url=https://www.summerwindproductions.com/nina/dramaturgical/magazines.html |date=1997 |work=[[Details (magazine)|Details]] |access-date=March 4, 2020}}
*:Relevant remarks:
*::'''Bardin''': "You've been married and divorced and had many romances. Do you still get around?"
*::'''Simone''': "I had an intense love affair with a Tunisian boy last year, but I don't think I want to get involved for a long time again because he opened me up like a volcano, and it almost put me under."
* {{cite news |last=Hunter |first=Kim D. |date=2003 |title=Nina Simone: And She Meant Every Word of It! |url=https://solidarity-us.org/atc/105/p596/ |work=Solidarity |access-date=March 4, 2020 |quote=In her late sixties, she claimed to have a 'volcanic' love affair with a young Tunisian. }} 
* Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/8olEruTT_io Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20170427191210/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8olEruTT_io&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media |people=[[Tim Sebastian|Sebastian, Tim]] |date=1999 |title=Nina Simone on BBC HARDtalk |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8olEruTT_io |access-date=March 4, 2020 |time=4:45 }}{{cbignore}}
*:Relevant remarks:
*::'''Sebastian''': "You've been married before."
*::'''Simone''': "I've been married twice."
*::'''Sebastian''': "Have you been unlucky at love?"
*::'''Simone''': "Yeah—unlucky at ''marriages''. Not so unlucky at love."
*::'''Sebastian''': "Lots of love, few marriages?"
*::'''Simone''': "Yes, two marriages."
*::'''Sebastian''': "Why didn't they work out?"
*::'''Simone''': "The music got in the way in the one where I married the cop from the United States [Andrew Stroud]. The music got in the way, and he treated me like a horse. You know, a nonstop workaholic horse. And the one in Tunisia—''well'', that was very hot, like a volcano. And his family didn't want him to move to France, and France didn't want him because he's a North African."
*::'''Sebastian''': "And the volcano didn't last?"
*::'''Simone''': "No, but it lasted long enough for me to never forget it, I'll tell you that."</ref> During a 1998 performance in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], she announced, "If you're going to come see me again, you've got to come to France, because I am not coming back."<ref>{{Harvnb|Ref=none|Cohodas|2010|p=358}}</ref> She suffered from [[breast cancer]] for several years before she died in her sleep at her home in [[Carry-le-Rouet]] (Bouches-du-Rhône), on April 21, 2003, at the age of 70.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/22/arts/nina-simone-70-soulful-diva-and-voice-of-civil-rights-dies.html|title=Nina Simone, 70, Soulful Diva and Voice of Civil Rights, Dies|newspaper=New York Times|date=April 22, 2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/22/nina-simone-eclectic-soul-and-protest-singer-dies/546c2dc2-ac39-40ac-ae0a-f29da56aafa0/|title=Nina Simone, Eclectic Soul and Protest Singer, Dies|newspaper=Washington Post|date=April 21, 2003}}</ref> Her Catholic funeral service at the local parish was attended by singers [[Miriam Makeba]] and [[Patti LaBelle]], poet [[Sonia Sanchez]], actors [[Ossie Davis]] and [[Ruby Dee]], and hundreds of others. Simone's ashes were scattered in several African countries. Her daughter [[Lisa Simone|Lisa Celeste Stroud]] is an actress and singer who took the stage name Simone, and who has appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in ''[[Aida (musical)|Aida]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/seattle/se54.html|title= Talking Broadway Seattle: Aida |access-date=August 14, 2007 |last=Frank |first=Jonathan}}</ref>
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