Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina on February 21st, 1993, Nina's prodigious talent as a musician was noticed at age three. Raised by pastor parents she was encouraged by them to pursue her God-given music talent. she played the piano but did not sing until an English woman named Muriel Mazzanovich taught her classical music.
Nina Simone was vocal about racism and injustice she said herself that the reason she was not admitted into Julliard school of music in new york city was racism. She wrote a song about the injustice and hardships that went on in Mississippi with Martin Luther King and the burning of the church called Mississippi goddamn that truly resonated with the people of Mississippi because it was the song that they needed to hear. Even in Interviews, she was vocal for example
NINA SIMONE : It's a good time for black people to be alive. It's a lot of hell, a lot of violence, but I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live as I've dreamed.
INTERVIEWER: Do you think that your child will be living through the revolutionary years?
NINA SIMONE : I don't know, love. Whatever it is she's going to have pride in her own blackness. She's going to have a chance to be more than just somebody who's on the outside looking in. Like it's been for most of us, and my parents before me, but she may see more bloodshed than I've ever even dreamed of. I have no way of knowing that evolution. The cycle goes round and round. It's time for us.Even during segregation and judging others based on their skin color she was optimistic and truthful about everything everyone needed to hear.
Citations
http://www.ninasimone.com/bio/
https://www.pantagruelista.com/blogeng/nina-simone-racism-art-violence
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