The Amazing Nina Simone is a 2015 American documentary film by director Jeff L. Lieberman. The film details the life, legacy and musical accomplishments of singer, musician, pianist, songwriter and Civil Rights activist, Nina Simone through interviews with over 50 of her friends, family, band members, lovers and fellow activists. The film has been called the best of the three Nina Simone films by The New Yorker Magazine, and "The Nina Simone film we should all be watching" by Blavity. The film traces Nina Simone through the many decades of her life, including growing up as Eunice Waymon, a piano prodigy in Tryon, NC , attending a summer program at The Juilliard School in New York and facing her first rejection from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. It was there that she went on to play piano at a bar in Atlantic City and when forced to sing, she ended up discovering her distinctive style that caught the attention of Bethlehem Records. It was there that she became known with her hit song, an interpretation of George Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy", and became a unique voice that was typically called jazz, but combined elements of classical, folk, pop, gospel, hymns, African, Jewish music and more. As the film recounts, she would ultimately use her musical voice to protest the inequality and brutality of segregation and American racism through songs like "Mississippi Goddam", "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", "Four Women (song)", the Kurt Weill standard "Pirate Jenny" and many more. The film is told through the stories and memories of Nikki Giovanni, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Chuck Stewart, Billy Vera, Horace Ott, Lester Hyman, Tom Schnabel, Roscoe Dellums, Marie-Christine Dunham Pratt and Sam Waymon, Nina's brother and longtime band member. More information...
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