Well yes, sorry to say
but I need to keep my thoughts clean and organized. It’s always nice to have
your life organized and easy to look back at things. Well I hope you will enjoy your time reading about me as I enjoy writing about it.
I think a good start to
our mutual relationship will be a good song to remember by:
spotify:
nina simone - feeling good
Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon;
February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter,
pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist. She worked in a broad range
of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues,folk, R&B, gospel,
and pop.
The sixth child of a
preacher's family in North
Carolina, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist Her musical path
changed direction after she was denied a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia,
despite a well-received audition. Simone said she later found out from an
insider at Curtis that she was denied entry because she was black. So as to
fund her continuing musical education and become a classical pianist, she began
playing in a small club in Philadelphia where she was also required to sing.
She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records, and her rendering of
"I Loves You, Porgy" was a hit in the
United States in 1958. Over the length of her career Simone recorded more than
40 albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974.
Her musical style arose
from a fusion of gospel and pop songs with classical
music, in particular with influences from her first inspiration, Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied with her expressive
jazz-like singing in her characteristic contralto voice. She injected as much of her
classical background into her music as possible to give it more depth and
quality, as she felt that pop music was inferior to classical. Her intuitive
grasp on the audience–performer relationship was gained from a unique
background of playing piano accompaniment for church revivals and sermons
regularly from the early age of six years old.
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