Sunday 23 June 2013

Nina Simone The High Priestess of Soul!







Nina Simone, to this day she truly fascinates me.  Every time  I stumble across  a picture or a song I haven't heard.  Her style was effortless and uniquely hers.  She didn't just sing a song she felt a song.  The Fugees once refer to her as  'Defecating  the mic' I think i know what they meant.  She just tells it like it is.

There are so many songstress going around mimicking the sound these great Singers of long ago made.  When Billy Holiday sang she sang from a point of direct experience. That's what made it so powerful.  The music they made intrudes on your daily life, grabs you by the throat and it compels you to listen.

The era they made music in the Black race was experiencing such unjust atrocities.  Everyone knew someone who had been killed just for being black.

Experiences like that change you forever , also dictates what and how you sing.

Nina Simone sang in her most pained voice as I guess she had experienced a lot of pain

So when someone comments about a posting about her album named 'The High Priestess of Soul' . They casually say I have heard her music and it is more kind of Jazz ( I think you have lost the right to comment  I think it is only right for me to say.  'How dare you?!'

posted fb 19/06/13



#139 The High Priestess of Soul


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Nina Simone
‘The High Priestess of soul’
She was so much more
She represents the struggle
Of our people at the time


Her music her voice
Commands attention
Whatever she sings
She makes it her own


I listen to her sounds
I know she was a troubled soul
She was aware of things going on
She knew the right from the wrong


She was persecuted
She was strong
Her memory lives on and on
Nina Simone
‘The High Priestess of Soul’