Nina Simone - born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North
Carolina - was a jazz diva extraordinaire. She was a woman of many talents -
singer, pianist, arranger, and composer - who was just as well-known for her
activism and her volatile personality. The sixth of eight children, Nina Simone
began playing piano at the age of three, then went on to study classical piano,
giving her first recital at 12. Subsequent rejections for music scholarships on
what she believed to be racial grounds, hardened her political sensibility and
laid the seeds of her involvement...