- Title: USA: JAZZ AND SOUL SINGER NINA SIMONE DIES AGED SEVENTY
- Date: 23rd April 2003
- Summary: (U7) NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE - APRIL 13, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF CARNEGIE HALL 0.07 2. SLV ZOOM IN STING, ELTON JOHN AND JAMES TAYLOR PERFORMING "GIVE ME LOVE, GIVE ME PEACE ON EARTH" 0.17 3. SLV INTERIOR CARNEGIE HALL 0.21 4. SLV NINA SIMONE SINGING "HERE COME THE SUN" 0.35 5. SLV ELTON JOHN, JAMES TAYLOR AND CAST SINGING "MY SWEET LORD" 0.49 6. SLV ALL SINGIN "OH HAPPY DAY" 1.03 7. SLV PAN CARNEGIE HALL 1.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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- Country: USA
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- Story Text: Jazz and soul singer Nina Simone, famed for her civil
rights songs and interpretations of gospel, ballads and George
Gershwin, has died at her home in the south of France, her
manager said. She was 70 years old.
Simone, a North Carolina native who had been living in
France off and on for the past eight years, had been ill for
some time, Clifton Henderson told Reuters when reached by
telephone in France.
Among her biggest hits were the 1959 recording of
Gershwin's "I Love You Porgy." Her repertories also included
the socially conscious songs "Mississippi Goddamn" and "Old
Jim Crow."
Raised in a family of eight children, she studied piano at
New York's prestigious Juilliard School of Music, a rare
opportunity for a black woman in the 1950s.
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