She wore a bright blue African dress and her arm cut ... wait as an assistant adjusted her head wrap in midsong. Plain and simple, those who listen to Nina Simone can't live without her music.

But Zoe Saldana covered her hair on the set of her new film Nina on Friday, donning a head wrap - one of Simone's signature ... a matching Roubi L'Roubi shift dress and cape.

In honor of her 71st birthday today, we’re taking a trip down memory lane with Nina ... Simone was also known for her bold eyeliner. In a series of stunning headshots, she rested her head ...

SPELLMAN: Nina Simone faced the 1960s head-on, and full of hope for a future without racism. A future that we can imagine in America, but can't quite bring it to focus. Here, she sings about the ...

The Great Nina Simone (The original image is no longer available ... I’ve also been told that it was a dress, a civil war ditty, etc. I asked the audience for help, and got some feedback from a ...

“Nina,” an infuriatingly amateurish picture about the great singer and pianist Nina Simone, is a new low for the musical biopic genre. First time writer-director Cynthia Mort, whose main ...

Flashback. The time is 1969 in New York. Donning a short afro, bamboo earrings and a West-African batik-patterned dress, Nina Simone sits in her living room for a documentary interview.

“When I used to get blue years ago, James Baldwin would say the same thing to me each time: ‘This is the world you have made for yourself, Nina, now you have to live in it,’” the ...

The singer and activist's life is depicted in Nina, opening April 22 With songs like “Mississippi Goddam” and “Why (The King of Love Is Dead),” Nina Simone earned a reputation as the voice ...