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Nina Simone

March 2024

  • Salt-N-Pepa at Radio City Music Hall, New York City in 1994.

    From Nina Simone and Bob Marley to Goldie and Salt-N-Pepa: a who’s who of Black popular music – in pictures

    Photography: iconic images of Black popular music

February 2024

  • Laura van der Heijden.

    Laura van der Heijden, Jâms Coleman: Path to the Moon album review – intriguing and beguiling

    The cellist and pianist juxtapose three major 20th-century sonatas – by George Walker, Britten and Debussy – with a handful of songs in which the cellist takes the vocal line.

October 2023

  • Nina Simone, 1968<br>American singer, Nina Simone, in the UK recording a television programme called 'Sound of Soul' for London Weekend Television. Her 5 year old daughter Lisa loves to watch her mother at the studio, and already she is playing the piano. Wembley, London. 28th May 1968. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

    The G2 interview
    Lisa Simone on loving and fearing her mother Nina: ‘On my 16th, she cursed the day I was born’

    As the only child of the legendary musician and civil rights activist, Lisa Simone experienced her mother’s brilliance – and her rage. She talks about the joy, the pain and how they finally made peace

September 2023

  • Nina Simone in 1966.

    Nina Simone is first black person to be Desert Island Discs’ most selected artist of year

    Exclusive: Analysis shows change in guests and tastes help jazz musician keep classical music off top spot

July 2023

  • Nina Simone performing at the 1968 Newport jazz festival.

    Ranked
    Nina Simone’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

    Ahead of an album of previously unreleased 1966 live recordings, we appraise the strident, sexual, socially conscious songcraft of a truly indomitable artist

March 2023

  • BALLET BLACK, Director Cassa Pancho, By Whatever Means_ Ballet Black, Co-commissioned with the Barbican, Choreography; Mthuthuzeli November, Lighting; David Plater, Costume design; Jessica Cabassa, Composers; Mandisi Dyantyis, Mthuthuzeli November, Nina Simone (1954-2002) Featuring the voices of the Zolani Youth Choir, Dancers; José Alves, Isabela Coracy, Alexander Fadayiro, Taraja Hudson, Sayaka Ichikawa, Rosanna Lindsey, Helga Paris-Morales, Ebony Thomas

    Ballet Black: Pioneers review – an uplifting tribute to Nina Simone

    Mthuthuzeli November’s passionate new work celebrating the musician is paired with Will Tuckett’s fine piece inspired by the poet Adrienne Rich

October 2022

  • Raine Spencer in a fur coat

    In brief: Three Times a Countess; Queen High; Nina Simone’s Gum – review

    An eye-opening biography of Raine Spencer; an exciting counterfactual novel set in postwar Britain; and Warren Ellis’s witty account of devotion

August 2022

  • Celeste Mountjoy is smiling at the camera and standing under a palm frond. She is wearing white sunglasses on top of her head, gold earrings and a thin gold necklace

    The funniest things on the internet
    Celeste Mountjoy: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    From Jeff Goldblum as the Big Bad Wolf to an incident involving Fabio and a goose, the illustrator @filthyratbag shares the things that make her laugh most

April 2022

  • Margo Jefferson

    Margo Jefferson on Will Smith, TikTok and identity: ‘I don’t like the sense that we are so fragile’

    Ahead of her new memoir, the critic talks about her current pop culture obsessions and why she identifies with Nina Simone

March 2022

  • ‘Mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound’ … Bob Dylan performing in 2012.

    Bob Dylan essay collection celebrating art of songwriting to be published

    Publisher Simon & Schuster says The Philosophy of Modern Song ‘resembles an epic poem’

December 2021

  • The best music books of 2021.

    Best books of 2021
    Best music books of 2021

    Sinéad O’Connor’s extraordinary memoir, the untold story of 90s Dancehall and a portrait in song from Paul McCartney are among the releases hitting the high notes

October 2021

  • Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N Todd, illustrated by Christian Robinson

    Children's book roundup
    Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels

  • Warren Ellis of Dirty Three performing

    Guardian Australia's book club
    Warren Ellis on the performance that changed him: ‘The room transformed. I could see flames’

September 2021

  • Warren Ellis (L) and Andrew Stafford (R) for Guardian Australia book club

    Guardian Australia's book club
    Guardian Australia’s Book Club: join Warren Ellis to discuss Nina Simone’s Gum

  • Nick Cave &amp; Warren Ellis<br>Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, press image

    Guardian Australia's book club
    ‘The last person to touch it was Nina Simone’: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis on an old piece of chewing gum

July 2021

  • Summer of Soul film stills

    Summer of Soul review – the best concert film ever made?

  • Harlem shakes ... Nina Simone at the cultural festival in 1969.

    Steve Rose on film
    ‘The revolution could not be televised’: why were so many black concert films erased from history?

August 2020

  • Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone in the film Nina.

    Zoe Saldana apologises for playing Nina Simone in controversial biopic

    Actor previously defended her role in the film but now says ‘somebody else should tell her story’

July 2020

  • Nina Simone performing in the 1970s.

    20 iconic festival sets
    Nina Simone, Montreux Jazz 1976: a difficult, unsteady return to the limelight

    Simone’s prowess on the piano and her exceptional baritone were intact, but the 76 Montreux show can be tough to watch for the uninitiated

June 2020

  • ‘In lockdown, I’m forced to look inside myself’ ... Raye.

    Lockdown listening
    Raye's lockdown listening: 'Nina Simone tears your skin and burns your eardrums'

    The British dance-pop star considers Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come amid the Black Lives Matter protests, and picks out tracks by Otis Redding, Miraa May and more
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