What's it like to play in a band with Nina Simone?

“Nina,” the long-gestating bio-pic about Nina Simone, written and directed by Cynthia Mort, opens today. read more

In 1954, she adopted the stage name"Nina Simone"."Nina", derived from niña, was a nickname given to her by a boyfriend named Chico, and"Simone" was taken from the French actress Simone Signoret, whom she had seen in the 1952 movie Casque d'Or. read more

In 1954, she adopted the stage name "Nina Simone". "Nina", derived from niña, was a nickname given to her by a boyfriend named Chico, and "Simone" was taken from the French actress Simone Signoret, whom she had seen in the 1952 movie Casque d'Or. read more