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Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me (CD) (UK Import)

Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me (CD) (UK Import)

Artist: Nina Simone

Music Genre: Jazz, Blues

Cat No
NOT2CD529
Released
2014
Pressing
UK
Styles
Soul-Jazz, Piano Blues

EAN/UPC - 5060143495298

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Jazz and Blues

Nina Simone — My Baby Just Cares For Me
Format: CD • Label: Not Now Music (NOT2CD529) • Released: 2014 • Pressing: UK • Genre: Soul-Jazz, Piano Blues

Tracklist:
1-1. My Baby Just Cares For Me
1-2. I Loves You Porgy
1-3. Mood Indigo
1-4. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
1-5. Summertime
1-6. Central Park Blues
1-7. Good Bait
1-8. Plain Gold Ring
1-9. Hey, Buddy Bolden
1-10. Work Song
1-11. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
1-12. Stompin' At The Savoy
1-13. Theme From "Middle Of The Night"
1-14. Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
1-15. That's Him Over There
1-16. Can't Get Out Of This Mood
1-17. Solitaire
1-18. Something To Live For
1-19. Forbidden Fruit
1-20. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
2-1. Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
2-2. Little Girl Blue
2-3. Porgy
2-4. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
2-5. Gin House Blues
2-6. It Don't Mean A Thing
2-7. I Ain't Got No - I Got Life
2-8. You'll Never Walk Alone
2-9. Don't Smoke In Bed
2-10. The Other Woman
2-11. He Needs Me
2-12. I Like The Sunrise
2-13. Cotton Eyed Joe
2-14. It Might As Well Be Spring
2-15. Blue Prelude
2-16. You've Been Gone Too Long
2-17. Chilly Winds Don't Blow
2-18. Willow Weep For Me
2-19. Rags And Old Iron
2-20. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me

Imported from the UK.

About the artist

American singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger and civil rights activist, born 21 February 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA, died 21 April 2003 in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (aged 70)

Nina was giving piano recitals after playing at her local church at an early age. Her childhood piano lessons were funded by her mother's employer and a local fund set up by her music teacher, so impressed were they by her talent.

She moved to Philadelphia aged 17, teaching piano and playing to raise the money for her studies at New York's renowned Juilliard School Of Music. To fund her family she worked in a bar in Atlantic City where she was also required to sing and built up a devoted following.

She recorded Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" which became a US Top 20 hit and transported her to a bigger stage, performing at and the .

Her repertoire went on to embrace numerous civil rights anthems, a movement for which she was a passionate and prominent supporter. She left the US in the 1970s, moving first to Barbados, and some other places, including Africa and the Netherlands, before eventually settling in France where she died from cancer in 2003.

She won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.

Mother of Lisa Simone.

Source: Discogs

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