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“Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical” opens worrisomely. Audiences might ask themselves: Is this going to be another jukebox musical with a flimsy story line linking together renditions of ...

Before the American public knew her as Nina Simone “the high priestess of soul,” Eunice Kathleen Waymon was already making a name for herself in Western North Carolina. Born in 1933 at 30 East ...

“Nina,” the long-gestating bio-pic about Nina Simone, written and directed by Cynthia Mort, opens today. It shares one peculiar quality with two other recent bio-pics of musicians, “Miles Ahead” (in ...

“An artist's duty as far as I'm concerned is to reflect the times ... How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?” — Nina Simone An outspoken freedom fighter battling bipolar disorder, the ...