Soul Music

On Sunday, May 8 (Mother’s Day), Simone, the only child and daughter of legendary music artist Nina Simone and the only person qualified and artistically capable of carrying on her mother’s legacy, will re-launch www.NinaSimone.com to share with the world – the mother and the artist – from a daughter’s perspective through the redesigned web site.

Simone will be honoring her Mother this year by capturing the milestones in her mother’s career, as well as the peaks and valleys of her celebrated life. In addition to intimate details and personal stories, www.NinaSimone.com will fully explore the many nuances and flavors that made up the more than 40 original albums in the Nina Simone library. The site will also feature “Nina Simone Radio,” a 24 hour/7 day-a-week internet radio station providing hundreds of recordings spanning over four decades, interviews and special guest commentary. Other additions to the site will include unreleased Nina recordings, archived video performances and an expanded photo gallery with previously unpublished photos of Nina behind the scenes and on-stage.

An icon of American music and one of the most extraordinary artists of the twentieth century, Eunice Kathleen Waymon was born on February 21, 1933. She was a classically trained pianist, the consummate musical storyteller, a griot as she would come to learn, who used her remarkable talent to create a legacy of liberation, empowerment, passion, and love through a magnificent body of work. She earned the moniker ‘High Priestess of Soul’ for she could weave a spell so seductive and hypnotic that the listener lost track of time and space as they became absorbed in the moment. She was who the world would come to know as Nina Simone.