*Stars... they come and go*

Smart Monkey oh that was a beautiful rendition of Ian’s song - really really fitting

Mississippi Goddamn

I loves you Porgy will always take the cake

Can we please get the 1968 Montreux version of "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free"???

And singing at the same time too, just incredible.

I think of Hendrix voice, Ninas piano, MCcartneys bass and Jeff Buckleys guitar skills as all massively underrated because of their other skills.

@@DumbBaby ok but to be fair pauls probably one of our best memory writers ever so it makes sense for him

...and when you get towards 01:00..., just listen to the next chord... and that long pauseeeeee! Ohhhhhh u beauty! I need not say anymore...

She was trained as a pianist at Juilliard, too.

She's the best that's ever done it

exactly. hoping for something more.

They way you put it is so beautiful and poetic

there's no hope in her message. just pure freedom

S

@@fareshajjar1208 she literally talked about her experience as a black person and for you to say being black was an asset while she got death threats and ridiculed till her dying day because of her day features is mine bending. Her simple expressing that black people should me treated like human almost ruin her career and her didn’t get her money until her last decade. If you don’t know anything please-do everyone a favor and hush .

@@fareshajjar1208 Lol what? So let me get this straight your position is that you believe a poor black kid born in North Carolina during Jim Crow/segregation had more opportunities than the white kids in her town?? Do I need to explain why that's wrong? Also if your primary point is that the local piano teacher was kind enough to take Nina in as a student free of charge shows why Nina was given an opportunity most other kids would not have got, then I agree. But if you're using this one argument to show how Nina somehow had more opportunities than white kids (again during Jim Crow) then you are being completely disingenuous because you are not bringing up all the opportunities the white kids had that Nina did not. Also if you are using the argument to show why Nina's blackness gave her a "HUGE" advantage then you are again wrong. The teacher didn't take Nina in because she was black, she took her in because she was talented. Also no pain from being black??? The reason Nina is performing at montruex (which is in Switzerland) in this video is because she was essentially black listed from radio in the US after releasing "Mississippi Goddamn." in an attempt to essentially ruin her career/silence her. Keep in mind that radio was the heart of the music industry in the 60s/70s. This, along with the treatment of the civil rights protests, made Nina decide to leave the US and move to Africa. If you still don't believe me that a part of Ninas pain derived from racism then listen to "Backlash Blues" from this exact same concert.

Her pain translates into beauty

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Me too! :-)

Me too

I could listen to it even in death!!!!

Yessss!❤

@@mistyday1236 Me three

I get emotional just watching this KZfaq video

Same with the blues legends. Racist USA, civil rights era..

In Switzerland too

Because she was an angry woman They didn’t like her in the United States

@@johnboys4697 You mean because she was a BLACK WOMAN! BLACK women are not angry 😤

@@edwardquaye8312 so you’re saying black women can’t be angry

You're absolutely nailing it!

Yesss it's amazing

I know the artist's estates should release wonderful gems for fans to purchase on video.

Internet is probably the greatest tool invented by humanity, easy to forget its immense value when you hear about the ways it’s used for harm. We must remember the good times had.

Here in April 2021 as well🥰

her message gets more powerful with time. she deserved so much more in her lifetime. the world is a cruel place, built on disturbing power structures that refuse credit to some of the most amazing, gifted and genuinely kind individuals that have existed.

Stopped by December 2021 - I agree Inno

Xmas 2021, resonating more and more...

July 2023, as well, and, I fear, in 2033 and beyond, too, if we don't wake up.

ok, I thought she said "we murder us". You're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong

@@janinge8696 haha. But that doesn't really make sense - it's ungrammatical, and why would we want to kill ourselves? You could be right, but I think "murderous" makes more sense. ;)

@@CathyKitson i take it both ways and anyways grammar is a fools idea. In these hoods we're forced into, children do take eachothers lives.

@@riahoodlum5698 That's true. It could be either.

@@CathyKitson it is make sense we murder are self inside the soul.

Rare that use of the language at your level.

Especially now!

At least somebody gave it a listen respect Rebecca Edwards share it with your friends and family let's get this heard for Nina's sake she would appreciate highly In my opinion. Spread the love not hate only for those who oppress the masses

@@moe42o especially especially now!

Why now? Black people have all the rights, even preferential treatment.

@@skypekai they have the rights but are still badly mistreated sometimes. More than white people. They still deserve justice you know... equality...

I watched it yesterday first time, Im blown away can't stop listening to this live

For me..it truly was last year when I found this gem...Life changing...😊

I've just came across this lady, and Im amazed at this talent voice and playing, she was so relaxed

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I second that @Kathryn

I love r&b, soul, blues, funk 🥳🥳

When she’s just humming the melody after she says that... you can see how she feels it

Powerful soul she is the whole world should listen to what she is saying. Now more than ever

bro, im buzzin here right now from that

@@lewishowe2285 amen

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Brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to this song 😂. The song's lyrics/message, combined with her expressive performance reaches down into your soul to pull up powerful, beautiful, and dark experiences all at the same time. Wow! Thank you for this performance Nina Simone. Rest in peace 🙏🏾.

a timeless message, social change is slow, so we repeat one thing like dylan-how many times can a man pretend he does not see?

Be afraid... very afraid... I tell you there is reason to be. I have seen what is to come. I do not know the exact day or hour but something wicked brewing soon will boil and we whose eyes are wide open must not shut them in fear and we must not turn away from those we mean to embrace even when they and many it will seem at first turn against us because they have more reason to be afraid. Know who you are. Know the truth to be known. Know what you know not. Know all cannot not be known. Be afraid but be bold. Fear has a friend in faith. Believe in the restoration of humanity as a people of many varieties like facets of a gem. We are beautiful together. This is not politics or religion and I'm not claiming super powers. However any may respond, I have no more to say here. Be well, one and all. I love every human, even those who despise me for I believe in the potential of the human spirit until the moment it is extinguished, but I do not entertain affection for the person shaped by a character built of repeatedly practiced conscious habits of immorality that violate the dignity or worse of others even in the context of having been amply provided for, instructed and guided in development that would allow moral correction. So, whoever you are, reader, my love to you.

@@mollyjaynecallisse2576 that's bold. And a HARD truth to live. Live well. Love well.

N she did! She knew she killed it!

Definitely an internal beauty.

Black women possess unique beauty

@@keyboarddancers7751 external beauty, you’re blind

@@togbeosagyefo8705 I'm not blind although my sight is in fact extremely limited (I have to wear contact lenses AND glasses). Nina Simone possessed a unique and *beautiful* talent which I try in some small measure to replicate (🤣) with my modest piano playing ability. However my aesthetic tastes regarding women (like most men I suspect) are *NOT* universal - in other words, there is no fundamental code or standard for beauty to which anybody is obliged to adhere.

Same♥♥

its what genius does to you. u are like wtf is going on here?

@Wylde Wylde interesting. i saw a comment from ''soccer'' magazine commenting on a messi goal against getafe ''geniuses are capable of anything'' nina simone was in genius category.

I’m telling u Every since I’ve discovered her beautiful n most irrelevant music I’m totally obsessed with her She’s a G.O.A.T. Period ✊🏿🥺💔💔💔💔

It doesn't surprise me. She's amazing.

makes me weep every time i hear her say

I think it's: "Don't leave me" - she's finding her way into this audience and beseeching them to follow her. But "Don't lead me" is just as likely: an admonishment to her drummer not to push the beat.

@@lukeslark It's hard to tell, but it seems like the drummer was slightly rushing till the "don't lead me" part. I'm not all that sure, but if you're playing in such an intimate duo it's intuition to tell when someone is rushing before it's noticeable to the listener.

Masterful.

I thought I heard “don’t leave me” which was in reference to her singing about the bird in flying the sky. Like “don’t leave me”... I want to fly too. Just a thought.

@@tonyb.3796 that’s whati always thought too

I find it impossibly sad.

Wow what a song major fan you can feel her pain through ever lyric n through every pore n her eyes what a life ,awful produced beautiful music every one of them her cover of I put a spell on you ,there's soo many got most of her albums never tires

Ti stihovi su me pogodili.

That was me typing it out and posting it in another upload of this performance, thanks for the mention

Thanks for the lyrics

*Chains that (are) still binding me *'Cos if we ain't we're murderous

Love

What?! How could they not be relevant? It's not about race, it's a human thing! Freedom!

Same here

Congratulations! 😋 She's amazing!

I’m 77. I was a young teenager when a friend of mine decided that I had to get to know about Nina Simone. He made me listen manager. to I loves you Porgy over and over again until I got it. Been a fan ever since. Every payday I would go to Smith’s record store on St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans and buy one of her albums. The last time she toured, she came to the Mahalia Jackson theatre in Armstrong (Louis) . I was working at the post office and couldn’t get off. When my shift ended, I went there anyway, and since the box office was no longer manned, I got in free. After she finished, I went to give my price of admission to her. She sent me a post card that I still have. She said, “You heard my real message.” As fortune would have it, I sat behind my friend, Billy Estavan, who’d originally turned me on to her. That was the last time I ever saw him, as he died of aid soon after.

Mine too

I agree. It really doesn’t matter what you look like! But- in the recent comments I saw someone say “Since when they grow legs at Hershey’s!” And “All that chocolate running wild!” That’s a disgusting thing to say. Shame on who said that. Someone sharing their experiences to change the world for the better is still judged by what she was trying to be free. Shame!

Check her history Prodigy.

@@margarethcarmo9654 thank you. I've actually got to know and see who she truly was.

Literally drowned myself into her music one day. Was in awe the whole time

Good to point that out! Is not the "american" government a bunch of murderers?? The military, the police, the hospitals, the cdc's (Centers for disease creation), the red Cross, fema, know it! Our freedom is within us! We are more powerful than we think we are; google "chakras" our spiritual body we've been ignoring or we did not know about them. Time to know and power up! Guns, rioting, war, protesting, writing books is not the answer. Knowing your true self, looking within and following your heart and intuition is the way to go. Peace and Love to all❤️💕 HEALING WISDOM TRUTH JOY

U heard that right... Something to think about.. She so deep w her songs

Chills

Très jolie compliment d un français et nous on si connaît en compliment 💐🌺🌷

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she trained at a very prestigus music school as a european music pianist, but chose to play BLACK MUSIC

There is no black and white music, there’s no race music. It’s music. Enjoy it, don’t look at the race, look at the talent

@@tesmith47 Actually she loved Classical above all. She had her opportunity for a scholarship denied to her because of the color of her skin and was forced to play jazz to pay for her school. It was also there she began to sing. She was one of the most brilliant composers of the 20th century and blended white and black musical tradition in ways that cannot be duplicated. She was beyond comprehension with her talent.

@@tonyv2373yes, she played EUROPEAN music too

@@klord3677 that is a delusion, ALL MUSIC IS "RACE" MUSIC !! Whites society try to assign grades!!

Roman Robinson I feel you, bruh. I feel every note that she strikes-and it’s brilliant.

It reverberates through your very soul in the best way possible.

AbsoLUTELY!!!!