Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On July 23, 2021, Ledisi, the New Orleans-born and Oakland-raised singer, ...

The late Nina Simone‘s younger brother, Sam Waymon, who played in her band for years, joined our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast for a uniquely intimate look at his legendary sister’s life and music.

As part of a yearlong celebration of Nina Simone’s 90 th birthday, a newly discovered recording from the Tryon, North Carolina-born singer’s performance at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival is set for ...

On Friday, the 45-year-old performer, who is a multiple-Grammy nominee, will share yet another side of her musical personality when she leads her band at The Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg. They will ...

Critic Tom Moon reviews the album Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone, a compilation of covers of her greatest hits performed by popular R&B artists like Usher and Lauren Hill. Singer, pianist ...

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In April, the singer, songwriter and pianist will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In anticipation, two compilations of Simone's early singles have been released. This is FRESH AIR. In ...

A quarter century of legal mania over the famed singer takes an explosive turn. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large In a long, complicated fight over the music of Nina Simone, the legendary ...

Eighty albums of recorded Nina Simone performances are said in new court papers to have been put on iTunes and other digital venues without authorization. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large ...

Few knew Nina Simone, America's High Priestess of Soul, like Al Schackman, her longtime guitarist and musical director. The two met in the summer of 1957, and Schackman’s up close and personal history ...