An ESSENCE beauty editor explains how Aesop’s new parfum, inspired by Nina Simone, converted her into a floral fragrance ...

The numbers from the musical Hair expressed contrasting emotions, but the singer joined them to create something new ...

It was less than a decade ago that I first heard Nina Simone sing. It was Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released," and though I'd heard countless vocalists cover Dylan's songs, never before had I ...

I played a lot of Nina Simone in college. I play a lot of Nina Simone now. But I have always known that Nina Simone means something more to the black women around me than she does to me.

Born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, N.C., in 1933, the young woman who the world would come to know as Nina Simone was so prodigally gifted as a classical pianist that she wound up at Julliard after high ...

Legendary singer Nina Simone’s granddaughter accused Vice President Kamala Harris of causing the family to lose control of Simone's estate while Harris was California attorney general.

Nina Simone's daughter is a jazz singer just like her late mother David Redfern/Redferns ; Jack Vartoogian/Getty Nina Simone was not only a cultural icon, jazz singer and civil rights activist ...

Nina Simone was a luminary who continues to shape the world and new artists to this day. But before she became the High Priestess of Soul, Simone was Eunice Waymon, a girl from North Carolina ...

A recently unearthed live version of “Blues for Mama,” written by Simone and Abbey Lincoln in the 1960s, took on domestic abuse in a momentous way. By Salamishah Tillet Nina Simone was always ...

By Evan Nicole Brown Culture Writer Nina Simone — the legendary singer and activist whose artistry took her around the globe — grew up in a modest, three-room clapboard home in Tryon ...

“Nina,” an infuriatingly amateurish picture about the great singer and pianist Nina Simone, is a new low for the musical biopic genre. First time writer-director Cynthia Mort, whose main ...

Enter the intimate Argyros Stage at South Coast Repertory for “Nina Simone: Four Women” and you’re serenaded with a background loop of Lauryn Hill and Muse covering the sublime ’60s song ...