Eunice displayed a precocious musical talent at the age of three when she started picking out tunes on the family's piano, and a few years later she was playing piano at her mother's Sunday church services. Her mother, Mary Kate Waymon, was a Methodist minister, and her father, John Divine Waymon, was a handyman who moonlighted as a preacher. ![]() Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina on February 21, 1933. ![]() Simone was a singer, pianist, and songwriter who bent genres to her will rather than allowing herself to be confined by their boundaries her work swung back and forth between jazz, blues, soul, classical, R&B, pop, gospel, and world music, with passion, emotional honesty, and a strong grasp of technique as the constants of her musical career. ![]() Nina Simone was one of the most gifted vocalists of her generation, and also one of the most eclectic.
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