What Happened, Miss Simone? movie plot
2022-06-26 21:28
The film is a biopic about the great American Black race pianist , composer and jazz star Nina Simon, featuring many never-before-seen audio and video recordings. Remember that Chanel perfume ad song? It was performed by Nina Simon! She is one of the "Four Jazz Queens" as famous as Billie Holiday, and a hall-level jazz actress loved by generations. Known as the priestess of soul music, the goddess of Mississippi, Aretha Franklin, Nora Jones and other superstars are deeply influenced by it. Although she is generally regarded as a good jazz actress, Nina does not like to be classified as such. Her songwriting genres mainly include blues, rhythm and blues and soul. Her singing style is characterized by an emotional, breathy tremolo
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What Happened, Miss Simone? quotes
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Nina Simone: We will shape and mold this country or it will not be molded and shaped at all anymore. So I think we don't have a choice. How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?