and Sarah Vaughn!!

So true; the first time I heard both Ms Nina and the divine Ms Sarah Vaughn, I was in ecstasy!!!

I remember it I was 14 and I was transfixed. She is one of a kind and gives you goosebumps every time.

I saw Sarah Vaughn in New York.Small venue, only 4 or 5 tables. So amazing!

Yup!

Your Dad explained that perfectly. So true!

Dad is soooo right! 😂😂😂

Thomas Bell BE in your feelings! This song hits me that way, every time I hear it! Blessings!❤️

@Alex Leblanc white loved my teens wow music now made my Soul always. Get rid of this shit it's Music Soul not colour never let this beautiful music die.

I amnow listening to my Utmost Favourites ever, Isaac Hayes and Millie Jackson, OMG listen to Royal Rappin. Whòòooooooo Hàaaaaaaaa.💋💘💞👍.x

Music is one soul speaking to another.

50 y/o white american from the woods of Oregon whose is love with this young man and his bringing people together this way = with a higher purpose = angel on earth = gratitude

German White 43 yo and i LOVE this Woman very much. She Was Great! Love and Peace to All people.

Snap

36 year old east London cockney

Yes. unfortunately the freedom she was singing about only sort of happened and seems to have stopped progressing

My favorite song plus Young, Gifted, and Black ❤️🖤💚❤️🖤💚❤️🖤💚❤️🖤💚

It's the bravest song I've ever heard. Mad, huge love for it.

Yes. Mississippi Goddamn

Her "Strange Fruit" is dark, it's about lynching and police brutality and the lives taken by white chauvenist bigots.

Heidi, the artistry of your words 💥💥💥

Wow. What a nice description of having diverse musical taste!

Well said, Heidi! It is most heartening to see this open-minded young man, navigating the rich waters of culture.

So well said

Beautifully said

My father immigrated from Mexico in the early 50's and he was a big fan of Nina Simone "freedom is mine!" that lyric has always stuck with me since my Dad always sung it like he breaking free. RIP Dad you're free!!!!

I absolutely love watching these boys listen to the greats for the first time, but I just don't understand how they have never heard of Nina Simone or several other artist they've done videos on. Nina Simone should be taught in the history books! They need to have classes at school on music appreciation to expose our youth to the culture and history.

Identical feelings

@@yupitsyourmom3193 Amen amen😭 God rest your Dad💗

I can relate! First time i heard this it blew my mind, went into my soul🙌🏼

😍😍😍

human magic.

So true listen to her vocals you can feel it in your soul

Truth!

Oh my gosh! I didn’t know this! I’ve loved Nina Simone for a few decades now. Thank you for letting us know!

Her piano playing was phenomenal..like she and the band were doing one song and her fingers were playing something completely different..

Suzanne Lemieux there’s a Netflix movie called « what happened Miss Simone ? »

I know, I've seen it and absolutely loved it! So much trouble in that woman's life...and such wonderful art..

Yes....that's it. Timeless!

Or race.. that song hits you like a hammer

Agreed. I remember the first time I heard her voice. Endless chills. And still to this day she gets me every single time.

So true

Music can be a highway to kindness and the veins that connect hearts... It knows no boundaries🌷🤗🎼🎺🎸🎻🥁🎹🎧🎙️🎷

I'm a week late to your party! But I'm here enjoying it right along with you! Deep southern Louisiana mother, grandmother who loves good music! And I absolutely love to watch new reactions to good tunes! New subscriber today! I've watched him react to Jolene as well! Awesome stuff!

One of my favorite artist!

My first time hearing it was decades ago, and I still break down and cry EVERY time I hear it.

In the early '00s I bought 5 CDs on my lunch break...Tina Marie, Dixie Chicks, Nirvana, John Coltrane, and Bob Marley. I person saw my collection and started a buzz in the office lol. So many were confused. Hilarious. I was actually REPLACING the CDs id lost in a move, 5 at a time. 51 y/o Black American female. Great 🎶🎵🎶 is universal.

I think he did this for views. let me see his reaction to her songs i French.

@@TheLadyNasferatu Cynical, aren't we?

❤️❤️

Was thinking the same ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Roberta Williams the world is a sad place when you only assume the negatives

I'm a few years older than you, but as a mid-60s gay man (who's originally from Gentry's home state) I agree. I first heard her when I was in elementary school -- like in 1961, '62? My sister had a record but no cover. "Forbidden Fruit" was the track that nailed it down for me -- "Eve and Adam had a garden, everything was great, then one day a voice said, 'Pardon, miss, my name is snake...'" I looked for that elpee and that track for years and years...finally found a British re-issue on CD several years ago. Hallelujah!!!

Dusty Springfield

She had her share of pain, but still she rose! Can't stop sheer talent! Loved Nina Simone since I heard her as a kid.

A Agree 💜

I so agree!

Truth!

Yes. You have to walk it off when it is that good.

Your comment gave me chills. It must have been a surreal moment for you. Bittersweet 🙃🤍

Cathy N Amen

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❤❤ I've thought of it like that for my mother...all my love to you.

I've made it my informal (so far) request that this be my "Death Poem", the first song played when celebrating my life after i have left it. Thus song is so powerful and transcendent.

Facts!!!

Her voice is pure perfection.

Oh yea.

Testify!! 🙌🙌

Gosh

Exactly!

You wrote this beautifully lol

Beautifully said.

Whew! 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Sierra Leone, Africa for a while?

Soul sister to James Baldwin, of course

Speaking of French Nina No Me Quitte Pe is a beautiful treasure from Miss Simone

Her doc on Netflix is amazing

Bridgette Raes what’s it called?

LOL!!!

Saaaaame 🤣🤣🤣

Same feeling

Who Dunnit He’s a baby I believe he never heard it before. He’s been brought up on crap music

@@personalcheeses8073 yeah, I believed it after I saw him reacting. He hasn't been exposed to the golden oldies, just that top 100 shit. Glad he's taking the initiative to broaden his listening experiences now.

I too was thinking that might be a good field for him to get into.

U nailed it.this kids this days will never understand music

Feel the same way. It gives me hope and a nice feeling ❤️

You should watch reelblack channel I lot of movies, shows and documentaries from a long time ago.

He nailed her! Very perceptive, hearing the pain and history in her voice in his first time listening.

for real. her voice is so emotional and vulnerable in an incredibly powerful way, no matter who you are you are gonna hear every thing she’s saying and feel everything she’s conveying with the imagery and emotions through her voice.

Everything Nina Simone sang was a civil rights song although this song was actually written by two Englishmen for a Broadway musical. Ain't that a bitch?

@Barbara Williams Wrong. This is a cover of English Actor and singer Anthony Newley's song.

@Dzsamila # It's a cover version it's played all the time on certain stations along with the original version by the English Singer and co-writer.

She was authentic. A woman of conviction.

The second part of your sentence is incorrect. This is not a civil rights song in any way lol

Made me cry too…seeing an open mind and heart experience the power and beauty of a genius like Ms. Simone for the very first time

word

Same, I had never heard Nina Simone do it. It has a whole different feeling and makes a LOT more sense when she sings it. I love it.

Same here! WOW.

She was the original for the song. Everyone else did a cover of it

Dude.

Me too I cried. Her music touch my soul.

Carolmarie This is the most wonderful comment I’ve ever read. Full of love! The soft blankie did me in! What a lovely human being you must be.

@@marthahopewell and Carolmarie: in the wake of experiencing our man experiencing Nina, and now your comments! I'm exhaling, and breathing in the goodness that people and music can create.

Yaaasssss

Should really try this Etta James track

Alecia Hutton Etta James! Love some Etta and Nina too! At Last from Etta is one of my all time faves! So soulful and with a bit of swank and swagger!❤️

We have a singer here Ireland called Mary Coughlan and she recorded the song also. I love both versions, just beautiful. 😘❤️

YAAAASSSS I LOVE MS JAMES!!!! Now SHE hits you in the soul!!!

Alecia Hutton one of my altimeter favs ❤️

yes ! Billie could put all the feelings in a song.

Yes!! I requested Strange Fruit. Very timely, hope they give it a listen. Plus much more. Oooh, I'm gonna suggest Sarah Vaughn!!!!

Couldn't agree more!!

@@marymitchell1329 Sarah Vaughan has so many great tracks! So moving.

Listen to some Ella Fitzgerald too! ❤️

I cant bring myself to ever recommend strange fruit because that song fucking kills me every time and I just can't bring myself to others to that deep ass sorrow. An important song for sure but Jesus. Its an open wound of a song.

Strange Fruit is Billie Holiday

She wasn't prevented from playing classical piano because of her color. There was an older neighbor in Tryon - Nina called this woman her white mama - who gave her piano lessons for free. That same woman and some other people in the community collected money to pay for Nina to go the Juliard, which she did. But more than anything, she wanted to attend the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. After finally auditioning, she didn't make the cut. They told her she was very good, close to being accepted, but told she needed a little more work. One of the professors offered to tutor her for free until she was able to audition for the next term, but Nina said no. For the rest of her life she held a grudge, blaming her failure to get into Curtis on racism. The Curtis Institute had accepted black students for years, and there were some black female students enrolled at the time Nina auditioned, but she didn't know that. Anyway, everything happens for a reason, and maybe if she'd gotten her wish, she'd be a classical pianist and nobody would be able to enjoy her singing. Her loss was our gain. BTW it was while singing in clubs that Eunice Waymon changed her name to Nina Simone. She knew her parents wouldn't approve of that job, so she used the stage name.

@@juansierralonche9864 thank you. When I saw her playing at Lenny's on the Pike, I guess she still held the grudge.

In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft - Voyager 1 and 2 - to explore Jupiter, Saturn and beyond. Each carried a 12-inch gold plated record. Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode was on the record. The spacecraft are now more than 10 billion miles from Earth, beyond the reaches of our solar system. As far as anyone knows, the records are still intact, but no alien life has found them yet.

Appreciate the rec! Adding it to my list

Yes, just going to say this.

That documentary was amazing. It was so sad at times, but goddamn she was a total badass.

@@citimutts3288 The title is _What Happened, Miss Simone?_ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icqHmbyrm7zIpYE.html Her 1999 interview on BBC kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btWceNWmubrDmaM.html

Not to be missed

Yes!!!

Yesss! Me and my dad were jamming to that only a few days ago, xx

Yes!

Or “ I Want a little sugar in my bowl!”

or simply falling in love. to me this has always been a lovesong.

It was orginally written by white men so no.

@@Secret-Serenity Art stands alone. Doesn't matter who wrote it - you decide what it makes you feel.

I see it as a murder ballad. She's my idol & as close to sacred as I get. She is who I name myself after. Praise be.

My partner of 5 years dumped me (decades ago) and I spent 3 months listening to Janis Joplin and licking my wounds. Then I moved to a new house with my best (platonic) friend. We played Nina as we packed. We played Nina as we moved. We named the house Feeling Good and held a wake for her in that home when she passed. Even now I think of going back to Feeling Good.

I listen to this track regularly.10 minutes of pure gold.

Oh, yeah!!!!!

Absolutely listen to Sinnerman.

Yes!!!! Love Nina and that song is one of her very best :-)

Although it's of a much lighter tone, her "Love Me or Leave Me" especially the classic live performance where the guitarist doing counterpoint can't quite keep up, is just...I mean. Just... She is combining Jazz and Bach-style polyphonic keyboard music! Its one of those artistic performance where you witness a human "top the wind-swept heights with easy grace, where never lark nor even eagle flew" Just so astonishing.

So true!

Yassss

You are doing wonderful work.

What a joy that must be to witness. Thank you for all you do!!

I saw a documentary at a film festival, maybe five years ago, about people doing that - it was both heartbreaking and heartlifting at the same time. Brava to you!

Well done 👍

Absolutely

Amen, amen, amen to all of that

Same! Just subscribed and followed on insta. Love this guy!!

His and his twins heartfelt, immediate and emotional connection to the new music, gets me in the feels every time♥️🌟

Same here.

So sad that she wasn't able to go to the Curtis Institute. The world missed out on a wonderful classical pianist.

Well said

Amen to that💚🌟💯

Anytime I hear her voice I can face another day with gusto!

So wonderful that you managed to see her play & sing live, it must’ve been an incredible experience. Thank you for sharing it with everyone.

Wow, lucky you; some great memories there, for sure!

O M G! So lucky you, and you are so right, but she was special.

SO JEALOUS! LEGEND! Troubled yet talented~ Great Netflix doc!

I still have the newspaper clippings from when she passed away. Nina Simone was so incredible, one of my all time favorite voices to hear.

Oh, I've never heard the Newley rendition. Gonna look for that now.

@@wideawake5630 no nor me, going to check it too.

In the ghetto by Elvis Presley is a great song too. It has a sad deep message.

Absolutely !

Well yeah. That was only the second time I heard that, and I was about there, myself.

The first time I ever heard the song or heard of Nina Simone was on Chuck. I felt cheated.

I love it.

TRUTH