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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
April 19, 2012
NINA SIMONE - ANOTHER ONE I NEVER SAW LIVE
The accidental star, the reluctant creator of something new under the sun of popular music, something no one else did before or since (because not only did no one else think of it, if they'd thought of it they wouldn't have been able to do it, she wasn't jazz, wasn't soul, wasn't cabaret but all of that and everything else), at the age of 60 produced this short account of her strange life in such a way that even the crazy stuff sounds reasonable, and which is a fascinating read which manages to leave practically every question unanswered.
The accidental star, the reluctant creator of something new under the sun of popular music, something no one else did before or since (because not only did no one else think of it, if they'd thought of it they wouldn't have been able to do it, she wasn't jazz, wasn't soul, wasn't cabaret but all of that and everything else), at the age of 60 produced this short account of her strange life in such a way that even the crazy stuff sounds reasonable, and which is a fascinating read which manages to leave practically every question unanswered.
Trials, tribulations, tantrums, tiaras, every concert a psychodrama of audience confrontation, every fan an assassin, every boyfriend either a crook or a president, sometimes both, Nina against the world, fleeing to and from Liberia, Barbados, Switzerland, France, Holland, living anywhere that's not America, nowhere that's home.
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