But since the first track of Ellingtons´s 'Mood Indigo' that kicks your teeth in, to her deep explorations into african slave hymns, and civil rights movement. She has been a huge inspiration to me despite her sad turmoils in life. Check her first Montreux performance on You Tube for some of that. Often bringing plenty humour with her repertoire, sometimes acting crazy and hard to understand (She was rumoured to be Bi-Polar anyways). Im pretty glad she did, because ultimately, she was better on stage than on studio. She also released plenty of live material. Listening through her albums and then tracking down the originals and you will see, Nina took them and re-invented them. The original is a very folksy and livid tune, Nina simply stripped it down to a dark hymn and created this intense message instead. But while Aretha Franklin for instance took Otis Redding´s R.e.s.p.e.c.t and pretty much made it her own, Nina on the other hand took way more of other tracks and did the same. Like Elvis Presley, she wrote few songs of herself. To me, she however outgrew that trademark pretty quickly. Simone truly was one, although you could easily dismiss her as a jazz artist. Many of the finest artist that lived did not have a specific style labeled to them.
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