With the prowess of Ledisi’s voice, the messages of Simone’s music—of personal empowerment and collective protest—retain a relevancy for a BLM generation facing the same harsh challenges ...

Critic Tom Moon reviews the album Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone, a compilation of covers of her greatest hits performed by popular R&B artists like Usher and Lauren Hill.

Shana Redmond is a writer and music scholar at Columbia University who has written extensively on Nina Simone’s life and legacy, including the liner notes for this new release.

For two Philadelphia Fringe artists, the stories can be told through music, wrapped up in songs from two of the greatest ...

Meshell Ndegeocello channels Nina Simone in 'Suzanne' 4. Her legendary sound was re-created for 'Nina' For the film, Schackman rounded up Simone's real band members to re-create her music.

How has Nina Simone and her music influenced your work? Nina Simone inspires me musically to express the truth, even when the truth is raw and/or painful.

Among the most pervasive and enduring dichotomies in music criticism is the one separating the romantic sentimentalist from the dogmatic politician. Although the line generally holds true &#151 ...

All these musical roots and branches of Nina Simone's life are explored in depth on To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story, a deluxe new four-disc (three CDs + DVD) box set that is the most comprehensive ...

The late Nina Simone‘s younger brother, Sam Waymon, who played in her band for years, joined our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast for a uniquely intimate look at his legendary sister’s life and ...

Nina Simone’s Songs in Limbo as Sony Music Battles Family Over Secret Deal A quarter century of legal mania over the famed singer takes an explosive turn.

Eighty albums of recorded Nina Simone performances are said in new court papers to have been put on iTunes and other digital venues without authorization.