BIOGRAFIA DI NINA SIMONE SUDDIVISA PER ANNI (Timeline o Cronologia biografica), da The Nina Simone Database di Mauro Boscarol

Vai a: The Nina Simone Database – Timeline.

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Feeling Good: The Nina Simone Story

BBC 2 Radio Presents:

Feeling Good: The Nina Simone Story

 

Simone will be narrating the BBC 2 Radio documentary FEELING GOOD: THE NINA SIMONE STORY which explores the life and career of her mother – the protest singer, jazz chanteuse, blues artist and live performer – sharing her personal thoughts and providing a glimpse of the real woman behind the distinctive voice on BBC Radio 2, Tuesday, January 11th, 2011.

 

This two-part documentary features unreleased concert tracks and contributions from some of Nina’s closest friends. These include Nina’s high school friend Hannah Ferguson; her niece Joyce Stroud; her close friend Verta Mae Grosvenor; concert promoter Ron Delsener; her friend and Elektra Records A&R man Michael Alago, singer Patti Smith; and her drummer for 18 years – Paul Robinson.

You can listen to Part One of ‘Feeling Good: The Nina Simone Story’ at:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/programmes/formats/documentaries

 

Nina Simone, The Legend

Nina Simone, La legende, sottotitolata in italiano

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Nina Simone, In Memoriam, da The Nina Simone Web di Mauro Boscarol, copia cache

In Memoriam

London Times 1 (UK, english) London Times 2 (UK, english) Associated Press (US, english) Le Monde (F, french) La Repubblica (I, italian) Süddeutsche Zeitung (D, german) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (D, german) Frankfurter Rundschau (D, german) Der Spiegel (D, german) Tasgesspiegel (D, german) Zürcher Zeitung (CH, german) CBS NEWS (US, english) Beefheart (english) ChartAttack (english) Lycos news (english) Kataweb (italian) Thank you Davis Torresen, Robert Vaughan, Matthias Huber. Comments to Mauro Boscarol

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Nina Simone Una vita di David Brun-Lambert Traduzione: Laura Cecilia Dapelli Collana: Universale Economica Vite Narrate Pagine: 448

Nina Simone Una vita David  Brun-Lambert Traduzione: Laura Cecilia  Dapelli Collana: Universale Economica Vite Narrate Pagine: 448 Prezzo: Euro 12 Compralo su laFeltrinelli.it Spedizione gratis fino al 28 maggio

In breve Il suo vero nome era Eunice Waymon. Era nata ad Atlantic City nel 1933 e aveva un sogno, quello di diventare la prima concertista classica americana di colore. Ma l’America segregazionista… La storia di un’icona della musica: straordinaria musicista, militante politica per i diritti dei neri, donna vulnerabile.

Il libro Il suo vero nome era Eunice Waymon. Era nata ad Atlantic City nel 1933 e aveva un sogno, quello di diventare la prima concertista classica americana di colore. Ma l’America segregazionista di quegli anni glielo impedì. Muore allora Eunice e nasce Nina Simone, una musicista risoluta, carismatica e prodigiosamente dotata. In pochi anni diventa un’icona della canzone americana, interprete di vari generi (jazz, soul, blues, gospel, folk), autrice di un repertorio straordinario e inoltre militante nella lotta per la difesa dei diritti civili degli afroamericani. Nina Simone ha attraversato mezzo secolo di musica e di grandi cambiamenti sociali, è stata compagna di strada di personaggi come Martin Luther King e Malcolm X, ha eguagliato per talento e destino le grandi cantanti dell’epoca, come Maria Callas o Billie Holiday. Ha avuto una carriera folgorante, a partire dai palchi calcati al Greenwich Village, fino al successo internazionale, ma ha vissuto anche il crollo del suo intero mondo. In una parabola che la porta a vagabondare per il mondo, lascia gli Stati Uniti, va all’isola di Barbados, in Liberia, quindi in Europa, nella Francia dove è morta nel 2003 in solitudine. Artista sfavillante, indole tormentata, guerriera instancabile, timida innamorata, donna sottomessa e abbandonata, spirito folle e geniale, diva assoluta e creatrice visionaria, concertista e maestra del palcoscenico, voce ineguagliabile: Nina Simone è stata tutto questo. E David Brun-Lambert nel suo libro ne offre un ritratto sfaccettato, lontano dai cliché, narrandone la vita pubblica, nel mondo musicale e politico, e quella privata, la storia di una protagonista tragica del ventesimo secolo.

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore – Libri/DVD – Nina Simone

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è entrata in pre-produzione la prima cinebiografia di Nina Simone, da CINEMAFRICA | Africa e diaspore nel cinema / Presto un biopic di Nina Simone

Secondo Variety, è entrata in pre-produzione la prima cinebiografia della grande soul singer Nina Simone. Dietro la macchina da presa siederà per la prima volta la sceneggiatrice Cynthia Mort (Il buio nell’anima). Il ruolo della protagonista andrà invece alla cantante Mary J. Blige, premiata con vari Grammy Award e invece al cinema apparsa solo nell’ultimo successo di Tyler Perry (I Can Do Bad All by Myself).

Il film dovrebbe concentrarsi sull’ultima fase della carriera della leggendaria cantante di “I Put a Spell on You” e focalizzarsi sulla relazione della Simone con il suo assistente Clifton Henderson, interpretato da David Oyelowo, che ritroveremo anche nel prossimo film di Lee Daniels (Precious), nei panni nientemeno di Martin Luther King jr. La Ealing Studios finanzierà il film, per un budget di 10 milioni di dollari: le riprese inizieranno in Francia a settembre.

Fonte: The Wrap

[Leonardo De Franceschi]

tratto da: CINEMAFRICA | Africa e diaspore nel cinema / Presto un biopic di Nina Simone

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Biography, By Roger Nupie, President “International Dr. Nina Simone Fan Club”, da http://www.ninasimone.com/

Biography By Roger Nupie, President “International Dr. Nina Simone Fan Club” Eunice Waymon was born in Tryon, North Carolina as the sixth of seven children in a poor family. The child prodigy played piano at the age of four. With the help of her music teacher, who set up the “Eunice Waymon Fund”, she could continue her general and musical education. She studied at the Julliard School of Music in New York. To support her family financially, she started working as an accompanist. In the summer of 1954 she took a job in an Irish bar in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The bar owner told her she had to sing as well. Without having time to realize what was happening, Eunice Waymon, who was trained to become a classical pianist, stepped into show business. She changed her name into Nina (“little one”) Simone (“from the French actress Simone Signoret”). In the late 50′s Nina Simone recorded her first tracks for the Bethlehem label. These are still remarkable displays of her talents as a pianist, singer, arranger and composer. Songs as Plain Gold Ring, Don’t Smoke In Bed and Little Girl Blue soon became standards in her repertoire. One song, I Loves You, Porgy, from the opera “Porgy and Bess”, became a hit and the nightclub singer became a star, performing at Town Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival. Even from the beginning of her career on, her repertoire included jazz standards, gospel and spirituals, classical music, folk songs of diverse origin, blues, pop, songs from musicals and opera, African chants as well as her own compositions. Combining Bachian counterpoint, the improvisational approach of jazz and the modulations of the blues, her talent could no longer be ignored. Other characteristics of the Simone art are: her original timing, the way she uses silence as a musical element and her often understated live act, sitting at the piano and advancing the mood and climate of her songs by a few chords. Sometimes her voice changes from dark and raw to soft and sweet. She pauses, shouts, repeats, whispers and moans. Sometimes piano, voice and gestures seem to be separate elements, then, at once, they meet. Add to this all the way she puts her spell on an audience, and you have some of the elements that make Nina Simone into a unique artist. When four black children were killed in the bombing of a church in Birmingham in 1963, Nina wrote Mississippi Goddam, a bitter and furious accusation of the situation of her people in the USA. The strong emotional approach of this song and the others on her first Philips record (“Nina Simone In Concert”), would become another characteristic in her art. She uses her voice with its remarkable timbre and her careful piano playing as means to achieve her artistic .. to express love, hate, sorrow, joy, loneliness – the whole range of human emotions – through music, in a direct way. One moment, she is the actress who turns a Kurt Weill-Bertold Brecht song as Pirate Jenny into great theater, then, after a set of protest songs, she will sing Jacques Brel’s fragile love song Ne Me Quitte Pas in French. Although Nina was called “High Priestess of Soul” and was respected by fans and critics as a mysterious, almost religious figure, she was often misunderstood as well. When she wrote Four Women in 1966, a bitter lament of four black women whose circumstances and outlook are related to subtle gradations in skin color, the song was banned on Philadelphia and new York radio stations because “it was insulting to black people…” The High Priestess would walk different paths to find the adequate music to spread her message. Her first RCA album, “Nina Simone Sings The Blues”, includes her own I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Do I Move You, a haunting version of My Man’s Gone Now (again from “Porgy & Bess”) and the protest song Backlash Blues, based on a poem written for her by Langston Hughes. Her repertoire includes more Civil Rights songs: Why? The King of Love is Dead, capturing the tragedy of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Brown Baby, Images (based on a Waring Cuney poem), Go Limp, Old Jim Crow, … One song, To be Young, Gifted and Black, inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s play with the same title, became the black national anthem in the USA. She surprised even her most devoted fans with an album on which she sings and plays alone. “Nina Simone And Piano!”, an introspective collection of songs about reincarnation, death, loneliness and love, is still a highlight in her recording career. Her gift to give new and deeper dimensions to songs resulted in remarkable versions of Ain’t Got No / I Got Life (from the musical “Hair”), Leonard Colhen’s Suzanne, Bee Gees songs as To Love Somebody, the classic My Way done in a tempo doubled on bongos, Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues and four other Bob Dylan songs. This gift culminated on her record “Emergency Ward”: she set up an atmosphere that left no illusions and no escape, performing two long versions of George Harrison songs: My Sweet Lord (to which she added a David Nelson poem, Today is a Killer) and Isn’t it a Pity. But Nina tried to escape anyway. She felt she had been manipulated. Disgusted with record companies, show business and racism, she left the USA in 1974 for Barbados. During the following years she lived in Liberia, Switzerland, Paris, The Netherlands and finally the South of France, where she is still residing. In 1978 a long awaited new record was released, “Baltimore”, containing the definite rendition of Judy Collins’ My Father and an hypnotizing Everything Must Change. Her next album, “Fodder On My Wings”, was recorded in Paris in 1982 and is based on her self-imposed “exile” from the USA. More than ever determined to make her own music, Nina wrote, adapted and arranged the songs, played piano and harpsichord and sang in English and French. The 1988 CD re-release of this album included some bonus tracks, e.g. her extraordinary version of Alone Again Naturally, reminiscing her father’s death. In 1984, one of her concerts at Ronnie Scott’s in London was filmed, resulting in a captivating video, featuring Paul Robinson on drums. A song from her very first record, My Baby Just Cares For Me, became a huge hit and “Nina’s Back” was not only the title of a new album; her concerts would take her all over the world again. In 1989 she contributed to Pete Townsend’s musical “The Iron Man”. In 1990 she recorded with Maria Bethania; in 1991 with Miriam Makeba. That same year, her autobiography, “I Put A Spell On You” was published. It was translated into French (“Ne Me Quittez Pas”), German (“Meine Schwarze Seele”) and Dutch (“I Put A Spell On You, – Herinneringen”). In 1993 a new studio album was released. “A Single Woman” includes several Rod McKuen songs, Nina’s own Marry Me, her version of the French standard Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux and a very moving Papa, Can You Hear Me? No less than five songs from her repertoire were used in the 1993 motion picture sound track of “Point Of No Return” (also called “The Assassin, code name: Nina”). Many other films feature her songs (e.g. “Ghosts of Mississippi”, 1996: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free, “Stealing Beauty”, 1996: My Baby Just Cares For Me and “One Night Stand”, 1997: Exactly Like You). Her music continues to excite new and young listeners. Ain’t Got No / I Got Life was a big hit in 1998 in The Netherlands, just as it had been there 30 years before… Together with her regular accompanists Lepoldo Fleming (percussion), Tony Jones(bass), Paul Robinson (drums), Xavier Collados (keyboards) and her musical directorAl Schackman (guitar), she still excites audiences all over the world. At the Barbican Theatre in London in 1997 she sang Every Time I Feel The Spirit as a tribute to one of America’s first and foremost leaders in the cause of Civil Rights, peace and brotherhood, singer and actor Paul Robeson. More spirituals and “blood songs” would follow: Reached Down And Got My Soul, The Blood Done Change My Name and When I See The Blood. Nina was the highlight of the Nice Jazz Festival in France in 1997, the Thessalonica Jazz Festival in Greece in 1998. At the Guinness Blues Festival in Dublin, Ireland in 1999 her daughter, Lisa Celeste, performing as “Simone”, sang a few duets with her mother. Simone has toured the world, sung with Latin superstar Rafael, participated in two Disney theatre workshops, playing the title role in Aida and Nala in The Lion King. She is currently working on her upcoming debut album, “Simone Superstar”. On July 24, 1998 Nina Simone was a special guest at Nelson Mandela’s 80th Birthday Party. On October 7, 1999 she received a Lifetime Achievement in Music Award in Dublin.   In 2000 she received Honorary Citizenship to Atlanta (May 26), the Diamond Award for Excellence in Music from the Association of African American Music in Philadelphia (June 9) and the Honorable Musketeer Award from the Compagnie des Mousquetaires d’Armagnac in France (August 7). Dr. Simone passed away after a long illness at her home in her villa in Carry-le-Rouet (South of France) on April 21, 2003. As she had wished, her ashes were spread in different African countries. The Diva, who was as well an Honorary Doctor in Music and Humanities, has an unrivalled legendary status as one of the very last ‘griots”. She is and will forever be the ultimate songstress and storyteller of our times. Courtesy of http://www.ninasimone.com/

 

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ritratto psicobiografico della cantante Nina Simone, la cui arte musicale è stata faticosamente percorsa da una rabbia e una protesta ineludibili dopo la infanzia dolorosa e il rapporto complicato con il padre, tanto da segnare la sua vita – ed il suo canto ‘soul’ lancinante – in modo indelebile

Raccontare il senso della vita.
E’ questo il tema del nuovo incontro del ciclo “Anatomie della mente e altre storie” in calendario per giovedì 11 febbraio alle 16,30 alla biblioteca Ariostea di Ferrara.
 L’appuntamento, che intende offrire un’introduzione allo studio psicobiografico delle storie biografiche, vedrà la partecipazione di Stefano Caracciolo (Università di Ferrara) e di Fulvio Cammarano (Università di Bologna).
Il ciclo di incontri, a cura di Enrico Spinelli, Francesca Mellone e Stefano Caracciolo, è organizzato per il terzo anno consecutivo dalla biblioteca comunale Ariostea e dalla sezione di Psicologia generale e clinica della Facoltà di Medicina di Ferrara e prevede sei conferenze di vari argomenti legati alla psicologia. L’incontro successivo è previsto per giovedì 11 marzo sul tema “Previsioni di vite future”.

LA SCHEDA a cura degli organizzatori
Da Plutarco ad oggi, la storia delle vite di personaggi famosi ha appassionato e sollecitato la curiosità e la bramosia di imitazione di uomini e donne. La biografia può infatti essere assimilata al ritratto nelle belle arti, dove la personalità del soggetto ritratto viene trasmessa attraverso la postura, la mimica del volto, l’abbigliamento, l’azione che viene compiuta: pensiamo ai ritratti equestri dei condottieri, alla posa ieratica di sovrani, duchi, papi e Imperatori. Un modello opposto è quello dell’autopsia, in cui si seziona ogni atto compiuto in vita dal soggetto con rigore e metodo scientifico. La moderna psicobiografia si differenzia dalla biografia, sebbene faccia, ovviamente, uso dei dati biografici. Nella biografia l’obiettivo è ricostruire e/o narrare la storia dell’individuo con il massimo dettaglio, rigore e precisione a partire dai documenti storici, mentre nella psicobiografia si tratta di focalizzarsi su eventi e comportamenti specifici svelandone i meccanismi psicologici. Perchè Elvis Presley non riusciva a interpretare con serenità la canzone “Are You Lonesome Tonight? Perchè Ernest Hemingway si è suicidato con un fucile da caccia, mentre Salgari si è sgozzato con una lama affilata? Che significato ha avuto per Goebbels uccidersi assieme alla moglie e ai bambini? La Psicobiografia costruisce e utilizza la teoria e la metodologia psicologica per interpretare singoli eventi e non per formulare teorie generali del comportamento, risalendo al particolare dall’universale, rovesciando quindi l’usuale tendenza del metodo scientifico.
Nel corso della conferenza il metodo psicobiografico verrà condotto su due interessanti esempi di ricostruzione psicobiografica: l’affascinante e intenso ritratto documentario costruito dalla regista Alina Marazzi della propria madre, nel film ‘Un’ora sola ti vorrei’, in cui la vita della madre Liseli viene ricostruita dolorosamente ripercorrendone le tappe della vita e della sofferenza psichica attraverso il montaggio di foto e cineriprese di famiglia, fino a recuperare attraverso la sofferenza un rapporto con la madre perduta, e un ritratto psicobiografico della cantante Nina Simone, la cui arte musicale è stata faticosamente percorsa da una rabbia e una protesta ineludibili dopo la infanzia dolorosa e il rapporto complicato con il padre, tanto da segnare la sua vita – ed il suo canto ‘soul’ lancinante – in modo indelebile. Verranno presentati e discussi brani filmici e musicali tratti dal documentario ‘Un’ora sola ti vorrei’ e da concerti dal vivo di Nina Simone.

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  • la più bella biografia finora pubblicata: David Brun – Lambert, Nina Simone : Une vie, Editons Flammarion, Paris 2005

  • un monumento alla memoria: GODDAM”, A Tribute to Dr. Nina Simone goes on tour!, Antwerp, Belgium on April 21st, 2005   a cura di  Roger Nupie

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