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Jazz Musician of the Day: Nina Simone

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JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY


Nina Simone

Eunice Waymon was born in Tryon, North Carolina as the sixth of seven children in a poor family. The child prodigy played piano at the age of four. With the help of her music teacher, who set up the “Eunice Waymon Fund"... more


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