Nina Simone 2003 Deaths
Nina Simone
(Eunice Kathleen Waymoa)Age: 70
sultry chanteuse whose difficult-to-classify music combined jazz, classical, folk, and gospel. Her biggest hit was “My Baby Just Cares for Me.” A civil rights activist, she recorded “Mississippi Goddam” after the murder of Medgar Evers.
Died: Carry-le-Rouet, France, April 21, 2003Paul Simon | R - Z | Howard “Sandman” Sims |