Eunice Kathleen Weymon was born in 1933 to a Methodist minister and a handyman/barber in North Carolina. She became an incredible musician and singer as well as a passionate civil rights activist.
She explored an entire spectrum of emotions, diving from intense highs to melancholic lows in both her music and her personal life - the High Priestess of Soul was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder somewhere in the mid-1960s. Her voice...Hm. Her voice. Just listen.
Nina Simone's obituary in The Telegraph is here.
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