Nina Simone

Work : None | New Career 15 May 1943 in Tryon (Polk County) (First piano recital spring 1943) | Social : None | Begin a program of study 3 July 1950 in New York (Scholarship to Julliard) | Work : None | New Career 1954 (Job at bar and grill) | Misc. : None | Changed Name June 1954 in Atlantic City (Eunice takes a job as singer-pianist in Atlantic City (New Jersey, US) at the Midtown Bar and Grill and decided to use the stage name Nina Simone) | Work : None | New Job 1957 (Recording session with Bethlehem Records) | Work : None | Gain social status 22 June 1959 (single I Loves You Porgy (Bethlehem 11021) enter R&B US charts at #30) | Relationship : None | Divorce dates 1970 (From second husband) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1987 (Popular song released) | Work : None | Gain social status 1991 (Biography released) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1997 (Appeared at the Nice Jazz Festival) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1999 (Guinness Blues Festival appearance) | : None | Death, Cause unspecified 21 April 2003 in Carry le Rouet (Age 70) | Traits : Body | Race (Black) | Traits : Personality | Fiery | Family : Childhood | Order of birth (Sixth of eight) | Family : Relationship | Marriage less than 3 Yrs (First marriage only a year) | Family : Relationship | Number of Divorces (Two) | Family : Relationship | Stress - Extramarital affairs (Mistress to politician) | Family : Parenting | Kids 1-3 (One daughter) | Personal : Misc. | Changed name | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Instrumentalist (Pianist) | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Vocalist/ Pop, Rock, etc. (Jazz, soul, blues) | Vocation : Politics | Activist/ political (civil rights activist)