In this exclusive extract from his new biography, What Happened, Miss Simone?, Alan Light explains how the musician Nina Simone fell in love with her second husband, Andrew Stroud, in 1961. He became her manager and realised her dream of playing in
How Eunice Waymon, an aspiring classical pianist, transformed herself into Nina Simone (the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary this year) is part hardluck story, part fairy tale, and like so many things in her life, the good and the bad were
Movies about Amy Winehouse and Nina Simone are among five films vying for the best documentary feature Oscar at this Sunday's Academy Award ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Nominees for the accolade gathered earlier this week to
Few artists have thrived so spectacularly while being so disinclined towards the recording industry, but then few have been as talented as Nina Simone. The turning point in her career was a rejection from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1951, which
Nina, Starring Zoe Saldana, Finally Has a Release Date, and Folks Are None Too Happy. The Nina Simone biopic was not cast right, if you let black Twitter tell it. By: Angela Bronner Helm. Posted: March 1 2016 8:31 PM.