The Amazing Nina Simone (2015)

Directors

Jeff L. Lieberman

Cast

Nikki Giovanni

The story

The film traces Nina Simone through the many decades of her life, including growing up as Eunice Waymon, a piano prodigy in Tryon, NC, attending a summer program at The Juilliard School in New York and facing her first rejection from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. There, she went on to play piano at a bar in Atlantic City, and when forced to sing, she discovered her distinctive style that caught the attention of Bethlehem Records. It was there that she became known with her hit song, an interpretation of George Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy", and became a unique voice that was typically called jazz, but combined elements…

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