Nina rocks you need to check out her whole catalog but there is something I'm requesting because I want to see your face when you check it out its the group is 2Cellos and pull up their cover of AC/DC song Thunderstruck I guarantee you will come away impressed and stunned and Give been watching you for a week or so and I enjoy seeing you checking out all versions of music and as usual you rock😍🤙
Please, next time try some more "recent" material. Some things like "Feeling Good" or "My Baby Just Cares For Me". He wasn't the best singer in the world, but she could sing real nice and playing piano was a master. She was brave, a virtuoso, a fighter and elegant; everything at the time.
Nina Simone was very involved in the Civil Rights Movement, and she was a very unique and daring artist who wasn't afraid to take on the social and political issues of the day. We need artists like her today.
She was classically trained at Juilliard music school and a year later auditioned for a scholarship to attend Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. She was rejected as a black woman. Nina is awesome and takes no prisoners there are lots of documentaries about her.
@@mildredpierce4506 Wth are you talking about? First of all, you don’t even know this young man. Secondly, Juilliard, at least, is a well known institution.
There is a huge back story to this song ending up with her leaving the USA for ever. A phenomenon. Her catalogue is very broad and some of her concerts mind blowing.
Good reaction. I think you should listen to Nina Simone's version of Strange Fruit; and when you want something more optimistic, react to Feeling Good. Nina Simone was an outstanding pianist btw.
Her song ‘Feeling Good ‘should’ve been your first song as it’s a moving , lovely, viscerally touching and a gorgeously written , easily relatable and timeless triumph!!
You getting there understanding how social justice drove music from the Harlem Renaissance. It began with Jazz and flows from there. Check out two gods of the next phase: Harry Belafonte. Miriam Makeba.
Things were bad for blacks in the American south at this time, and some of the most terrible events happened in Mississippi (murders of Medgar Evers and Emmitt Till), and the government was blatantly racist and looked the other way to the point of nearly condoning the murders. That's why Nina Simone is pulling no punches and not suppressing her anger in this song. Another singer-songwriter, Phil Ochs also penned a scathing song about Mississippi called "Here's to the State of Mississippi."
Nina Simone was the real deal. Beyond the memorable protest songs, like "Mississippi Goddam!", she recorded songs that inspired others to cover them. For example, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (The Animals), "I Put A Spell On You" (Creedence Clearwater Revival), "Nobody's Fault but Mine" (Led Zeppelin), "Wild Is The Wind" (David Bowie). Check those out too when you can and when you're ready for more also check out her cover of The Bee Gees "To Love Somebody" (It's my current favorite). Her version of "Strange Fruit" is chilling, but the most soul crushing version of that song is Billie Holiday's. The clip of her singing that months before she died in 1959 still hurts to watch sixty plus years later. The hurt is not because of her singing but because of the subject of the song and the vulnerability in her performance. She recorded that song in 1939 and it so angered the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (precursor to the DEA) that he framed her for a crime and sent her to prison for a year. PS. Nina Simone wrote "Mississippi Goddam" in reaction to the murder of four young Black girls in a terrorist attack when white supremacists bombed a church in 1963. The jaunty bouncy flavor of the song, the "show tune" as it were, is there to temper her temper. She is livid and righteously so. It was the first protest song she wrote. It was banned from the radio in many Southern states. When she performed the song in the sixties she sometimes swapped in different place names causing her to "lose her rest" as a way to draw attention to important events in those places.
Nina Simone is one of my favorites. She was such a force. My favorite song is Sinnerman ruclips.net/video/r57J0jPyZRs/видео.html She might be most known for Feeling Good, and she did a version of Strange Fruit as well.
Many young people during that time listened to her music and held her in high regard and respect.You may want to check out Pirate Jenny for your own listening, not it would be a good reaction but I think it is important historically.
What a powerful, extraordinary woman. Some other incredible songs - Feeling Good ruclips.net/video/D5Y11hwjMNs/видео.html I got Life - ruclips.net/video/L5jI9I03q8E/видео.html
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Nina rocks you need to check out her whole catalog but there is something I'm requesting because I want to see your face when you check it out its the group is 2Cellos and pull up their cover of AC/DC song Thunderstruck I guarantee you will come away impressed and stunned and Give been watching you for a week or so and I enjoy seeing you checking out all versions of music and as usual you rock😍🤙
Please, next time try some more "recent" material. Some things like "Feeling Good" or "My Baby Just Cares For Me". He wasn't the best singer in the world, but she could sing real nice and playing piano was a master. She was brave, a virtuoso, a fighter and elegant; everything at the time.
Nina Simone was very involved in the Civil Rights Movement, and she was a very unique and daring artist who wasn't afraid to take on the social and political issues of the day. We need artists like her today.
we do have. but they need people who rather listen to them than to all the 1000000000 love songs
I’m glad you found Nina Simone. She was incredible.
A LEGEND!!!!
The legendary Nina Simone! A talented, beautiful civil rights activist and humanitarian.
You MUST listen to STRANGE FRUIT. Powerful and gut wrenching.
Billie Holidays version of Strange Fruit is absolutely chilling.
Sam Cooke “A change is gonna come” - beautiful civil rights song
She was classically trained at Juilliard music school and a year later auditioned for a scholarship to attend Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. She was rejected as a black woman. Nina is awesome and takes no prisoners there are lots of documentaries about her.
I’m sure this kid has no idea about any of these institutions
@@mildredpierce4506 ...why would you say a thing like that?
@@mildredpierce4506 Wth are you talking about? First of all, you don’t even know this young man. Secondly, Juilliard, at least, is a well known institution.
There is a huge back story to this song ending up with her leaving the USA for ever. A phenomenon. Her catalogue is very broad and some of her concerts mind blowing.
You need to see/hear her sing SINNERMAN! Intense... 🔥 🔥 🔥
Love that one. I’ve heard it used in the remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair”, and on the British tv show “Sherlock”.
Good reaction. I think you should listen to Nina Simone's version of Strange Fruit; and when you want something more optimistic, react to Feeling Good. Nina Simone was an outstanding pianist btw.
Her song ‘Feeling Good ‘should’ve been your first song as it’s a moving , lovely, viscerally touching and a gorgeously written , easily relatable and timeless triumph!!
💙 one of my favourites is Ain't got no/i got life
Thanks for your journey
✌️🏵️💞
This song always gets to me.
You getting there understanding how social justice drove music from the Harlem Renaissance. It began with Jazz and flows from there. Check out two gods of the next phase: Harry Belafonte. Miriam Makeba.
Things were bad for blacks in the American south at this time, and some of the most terrible events happened in Mississippi (murders of Medgar Evers and Emmitt Till), and the government was blatantly racist and looked the other way to the point of nearly condoning the murders. That's why Nina Simone is pulling no punches and not suppressing her anger in this song. Another singer-songwriter, Phil Ochs also penned a scathing song about Mississippi called "Here's to the State of Mississippi."
Thank you for letting us watch your journey. Old Musician From Seattle
Nina Simone was the real deal. Beyond the memorable protest songs, like "Mississippi Goddam!", she recorded songs that inspired others to cover them. For example, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (The Animals), "I Put A Spell On You" (Creedence Clearwater Revival), "Nobody's Fault but Mine" (Led Zeppelin), "Wild Is The Wind" (David Bowie). Check those out too when you can and when you're ready for more also check out her cover of The Bee Gees "To Love Somebody" (It's my current favorite). Her version of "Strange Fruit" is chilling, but the most soul crushing version of that song is Billie Holiday's. The clip of her singing that months before she died in 1959 still hurts to watch sixty plus years later. The hurt is not because of her singing but because of the subject of the song and the vulnerability in her performance. She recorded that song in 1939 and it so angered the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (precursor to the DEA) that he framed her for a crime and sent her to prison for a year. PS. Nina Simone wrote "Mississippi Goddam" in reaction to the murder of four young Black girls in a terrorist attack when white supremacists bombed a church in 1963. The jaunty bouncy flavor of the song, the "show tune" as it were, is there to temper her temper. She is livid and righteously so. It was the first protest song she wrote. It was banned from the radio in many Southern states. When she performed the song in the sixties she sometimes swapped in different place names causing her to "lose her rest" as a way to draw attention to important events in those places.
Nina Simone is one of my favorites. She was such a force. My favorite song is Sinnerman
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She might be most known for Feeling Good, and she did a version of Strange Fruit as well.
Listen to more Nina. She really looked angry, but she was raised in the south.
Nina is SHE! Tons of songs you can check out, but I think next you should listen to Strange Fruit. It's a good follow up to this one.
I love her version of Leonard Cohen’s song “Suzanne”.
Many young people during that time listened to her music and held her in high regard and respect.You may want to check out Pirate Jenny for your own listening, not it would be a good reaction but I think it is important historically.
What a powerful, extraordinary woman. Some other incredible songs -
Feeling Good ruclips.net/video/D5Y11hwjMNs/видео.html
I got Life - ruclips.net/video/L5jI9I03q8E/видео.html
Nina is no joke...get ready