On February 21, 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina a jazz legend was born. We know her by her stage name Nina Simone; born Eunice Kathleen Waymon. Nina was born the sixth child into a non-wealthy family where both her parents were ministers and her father a handyman as well. Nina began playing the piano by the age of 3. She showed talent at a young age that could not be overlooked. Nina’s parents, mother Mary Waymon and father John Waymon acknowledged her talent well and the fact that she was able
York for one year. After a year in ... ... middle of paper ... ...lina. After high school, she attended Juilliard School of Music for one year. She studied with Vladimir Sokhaloff, Married twice and had one daughter, Lisa Celeste Stroud (AKA Simone Kelly) who followed in her mother’s musical steps. In her later years, she became a world wanderer and preferred Europe to America. Her concerts were wide ranged from Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New York – including Carnegie Hall and Apollo Theatre
Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, was a composer, pianist, singer, equal rights activist commonly associated with jazz music. She was born February 21 1933 and died April 21 2003. Simone aimed to be a classical pianist while working a broad range of styles such as classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel and pop. Her stage name came during the time she performed at the Midtown Bar & Grill on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City to fund her private piano lessons. The owner of the bar insisted
When I was told that Nina Simone was to have her own biopic, I was initially interested and excited over who they would cast for the influential songstress; however, when I heard that Zoe Saldana would play her, confusion took me over. Upon seeing pictures of Saldana wearing darker makeup and a prosthetic nose for the part, I became further confused. Many black activists and actors have voiced their outrage at this problematic casting, yet Simone's daughter has gone out of her way to defend Saldana
Usher is paying tribute to one of the most outstanding legends in music, Nina Simone, and he has redone her 1958 song titled “My Baby Just Cares For Me.” This is off a compilation album titled “Nina Revisited…A Tribute to Nina Simone” which will be released on July 10th. Nina Simone was a song writer, a singer, pianist and an activist. She is one of the most diverse musicians in history as she is an artist that was not specific to any genre. She did jazz, blues, R&B, folk, pop, gospel and classical
In Liz Garbus’ documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?, displays the life of musician and activist Nina Simone. The documentary follows different experiences of her life that were critical to the development of Nina Simone over the years. Born in Tryon, North Carolina by the name of Eunice Waymon she aspired to be a classical pianist, but as she got older and began playing in bars she changed her focus to performing and singing. The film then describes the success of her career and her involvement
Today lots of people know Nina Simone for her legacy; she was a supreme and classical trained pianist and she was also a civil rights activist. In 2015, a Netflix movie was released on Nina Simone, called “What happened Miss Simone?” to depict who Nina Simone really was as a person. The actress playing her in the biography musical is, Dominican and Puerto Rican, Zoe Saldana. The trailer for the movie made an uproar of controversy. The controversy comes from Nina Simone legacy, combined with appearance
Have you ever thought about what type of animals live in the Santa Ana Zoo? According to the Santa Ana Zoo website, there are over 120 different species and 350 individual animals at the Santa Ana Zoo. There is a variety of different animals to observe, enjoy, and learn more about. Each and one of them can bring you a unique perspective information on their species, whether it is a prosimian, new world monkey, old world monkey and apes. I observed the different primates at the zoo and took notes
Eyes drooping, feet dragging, I reluctantly walked down to our chicken coop each Saturday morning seven of the twelve months of the year for several years. There were no cartoons watched during those months, just the repulsive job of processing chickens. I always hated getting up early to do something as hard and awful as the job of killing, plucking, cleaning, and bagging chickens. But despite how much I hated missing all the other fun activities I could have been doing; I would go and enjoy
Miss Clairol In the story, Miss Clairol, written by Helena Maria Viramontes, was about a woman who goes to the store with her daughter to buy items for a date that she was preparing for later that night. Arlene, who was the woman that was getting ready for her date is a chicana (Mexican Amerian) who throughout the story refers to things or events that brought a smile to her face as “sounding right.” As I read the story I could not help but smile throughout the story because it was so close to home
Comrades, I will tell you why I called for this meeting. Everyone who is here, I tell you that we all need loyalty that is rock solid. No one shall trust humans for they had made our lives and other animals’ lives miserable. I swear to all of you that I will do whatever it takes to bring prosperity to our lives and to future comrades to Animal Farm. You all knew the old me, but now that I see my comrades, you need to trust someone and that someone should be me. What I have to say will affect your
Over and over again critics write about Nina Simone’s power and charisma throughout the Civil Rights Movement. She sang the words of an entire movement, “All I want is equality/ for my sister, my brother, my people, and me./ Yes, you lied to me all these years”(Simone Mississippi). She sang out for her entire race, and with a “smoky- toned” voice, when four young girls were killed in a church bombing (Lewis). She sang “Will my country fall, stand or fall?/ Is it too late for us all?/ And did Martin
Black womanhood is still as important as feminism. Women, in general, are still not being treated as an equal, but for a black woman it is even worse. The song “Four Women” by Nina Simone shows how black women were being categorized and struggling with a sense of belonging, acceptance, and ownership. First, a young woman in the song is named Saffronia she is mixed. She says “she does belong” she knows she belongs to two worlds, but it is more about being accepted. She has long hair and is described
Nina Simone used music to challenge, provoke, incite, and inform the masses during the period that we know as the Civil Rights Era. In the songs” Four Women”, “Young Gifted and Black”, and Mississippi God Damn”, Nina Simone musically maps a personal "intersectionality" as it relates to being a black American female artist. Kimberly Crenshaw defines "intersectionality" as an inability for black women to separate race, class and gender. Nina Simone’s music directly addresses this paradigm. While
their way to do the right thing and will go through what is needed to achieve that right. Leaders are specified by many different traits but the one trait that could make anyone a leader is a voice. That is exactly what made Rosa Parks, Malala, and Nina Simone leaders to everyone still to this day. Rosa Parks did not give her seat up, that one action caused uproar of controversy which helped shape the way people live today. “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired but that
it cannot be called foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is much more subtle, like seeing a dead bird or something. Foreshadowing is definitely not like what is in Spring in Fialta, which is more like, “Yup, she’s gonna die.” For example, the lunch with Nina where, “for the last time in her life, was busy eating the shellfish of which she was so fond,” (Nabokov 427). There are many more statements, some not quite as direct as these, but direct nonetheless such as when Victor is imagining her: Had I
supply him with three ships the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. A total of about 90 crew members sailed aboard the three ships. In addition to the officers and sailors, the expedition included a translator, three physicians, a servant for each captain, a secretary, and an accountant. On October 12, 1492, at 2:00 in the morning he spouted a small island, which he called San Salvador. In January, the Santa Maria was wrecked off the coast of Espanola. The Nina, with Columbus in command, along with
first passage could be improved by explaining where he was, what the disaster entailed, and who the funny-looking guy was, its honesty far outweighs the literary correctness of the second passage. Once again, in Hall's analysis of the narratives of Nina Chan, he seems to be putting too much focus on what is correct, and not enough on what makes an interesting work of literature. The impromptu theme does rely heavily on clichés in the first few sentences; however, the narrative uses so much language
born the daughter of a loving mother, Mah, and a run-out-on-the-family father whom cursed Leila with a last name Fu. As Leila said herself, "Fu in our dialect sounds like the word for bitter" (18). She became the oldest with two other sisters, Ona and Nina, whom both came from Mah's second husband, Leon. Leon loves his biological daughters like a true father should; meanwhile, Leon also loves Leila, his daughter only by marriage to Mah. Leon expresses how much he loves his daughters by saying "Five sons
El Nino: Past, Present, and Future El Nino is both an atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon affecting weather patterns all around the world. It is complemented by La Nina in a cycle that occurs approximately every 4 years, varying as much as every two years to every six years (Wang 1999, 3331). La Nina has almost the opposite effect, however differs in its strength and duration randomly, as does El Nino (Fedorov 2000, 1998). The cycle is often paraphrased as ENSO, standing for El Nino-Southern Oscillation