- Nascido(a) em
- Falecido(a) em21 de abril de 2003 · Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône, França (câncer de mama)
- Nome de nascimentoEunice Kathleen Waymon
- Apelidos
- High Priestess of Soul
- Nina
- Altura1,68 m
- Nina Simone nasceu o 21 de fevereiro de 1933 em Carolina do Norte, EUA. Era música e atriz e foi conhecida pelo seu trabalho em A Assassina (1993), Repo Men: O Resgate de Órgãos (2010) e Miami Vice (2006). Foi casada com Andrew Stroud e Donald Ross. Morreu o 21 de abril de 2003 em Bouches-du-Rhône, França.
- CônjugesAndrew Stroud(4 de dezembro de 1961 - 1971) (divorciado (a), 1 criança)Donald Ross(dezembro de 1958 - 1960) (divorciado (a))
- Crianças
- PaisJohn Devan WaymonMary (Irvin) Waymon
- ParentesSam L. Waymon(Sibling)John Irvine Waymon(Sibling)Carrol Wayman(Sibling)Harold(Sibling)Dorothy Simmons(Sibling)Robin Thomas(Sibling)Crystal Fox(Niece or Nephew)
- Her professional name is a combination of Nina ("little one"), from an Hispanic boyfriend, and Simone from French film actress Simone Signoret.
- Daughter Lisa Celeste (Lisa Simone Kelly), born in 1962.She's a Broadway actress, star of the Broadway musical "Elton John's Aida".
- Sixth of seven children. Studied at Julliard School of Music in New York Resides in the South of France Awarded an Honorary Doctor in Music and Humanities
- In 1995 she was given a suspended eight-month jail term after firing a scatter-gun at a pair of noisy teenagers playing next to her home in Bouc-Bel-Air near Aix-en-Provence. That same year she was fined $US 5,000 for leaving the scene of a car accident that had occurred in 1993.
- Her first hit recording was her rendition of the classic song "I Loves You, Porgy", from Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess".
- Jazz is a white term to define Black people. My music is Black classical music.
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