Thursday, April 15, 2010

Nina Simone : Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter

Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to classify. She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop idioms, often over the course of the same album; she was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. It's perhaps most accurate to label her as a "soul" singer in terms of emotion, rather than form. Like, say, Aretha Franklin, or Dusty Springfield, Simone was an eclectic who brought soulful qualities to whatever material she interpreted. These qualities were among her strongest virtues; paradoxically, they also may have kept her from attaining a truly mass audience. The same could be said of her stage persona; admired for her forthright honesty and individualism, she was also known for feisty feuding with audiences and promoters alike.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous20:44

    I love this song!
    Thank you for posting it again,
    cause it's hard to find a good version of it on the net... Can you share the MP3 file? :) Please?

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  2. Fantastic song indeed, unfortunately not on ITunes, so here your are :

    files.me.com/jgeysen/iolemq.mp3

    Gr,


    J.

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  3. Anonymous15:46

    dirty, dirty oold man - funky!!

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