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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...