Artist: Nina Simone

Album: The Very Best Of Volume 2

Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (IPA: ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn) (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was a fifteen-time Grammy Award-nominated american singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician; She personally preferred the term " black classical music ". Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classical basis, such as jazz , soul , <

Albums: High Priestess of Soul, Tell It Like It Is, Forever Young Gifted and Black, I Maestri Del Blues Collection, Remixes One, Broadway Blues Ballads, Live at Ronnie Scotts, Remixed and Reimagined, Remixed & Reimagined, I Put a Spell on You, The Very Best Of Volume 2, My Baby Just Cares for Me, Sings The Blues, In Concert

Tags: Soul, Jazz, Female Vocalists, Blues, Vocal Jazz