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= Nina Simone = ==Nina Simone was born on February 21, 1933 inTryon, North Carolina. Her actual name is Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She started out playing the piano by ear by age three. She grew up as a christian girl. Her father was a handyman and a minister. Her mom was also a minister at their church. They taught her right from wrong and to always work for what you want and to never give up your dreams. She soon started to study classical music with an Englishwomen named Muriel Mazzanovich. ==

She put in an application to a music school called The Curtis Institute of Music. She didn't get in to the school. Nina thinks it was because of racism that they denied her application, so to make a living she began teaching music to local students. She soon began singing in bars in the Atlantic City of New Jersey, and came up with the name Nina Simone herself. By age 24 she she'd submitted multiple demos to the Bethlem Records and finally came to the attention of them. She didn't stay with them for very long. She was found by another recorder named Joyce Selznick. She soon became very popular.

She sang in clubs and in civil rights meetings. Nina Simone died on April 21, 2003. She had suffered from breast cancer years before she died in her sleep. Her function as an artist is " to make people feel on a deep level " meaning to get near what it's about you have to play it. When you get it, you get the audience hooked.