You can't help but notice Lady Blackbird's voice. Her vocals just demand your attention. The artist, born Marley Munroe, ...

Ledisi has announced a Dinah Washington tribute album set to be released in October of 2025 with an accompanying tour.

Simone’s most celebrated albums, including Little Girl Blue (1958), Nina Simone Sings the Blues (1967), and Pastel Blues (1965), continue to captivate listeners. Songs like Sinnerman, Don’t Let Me Be ...

Lady Sings The Blues, lobbycard, Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, 1972. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images) Before the movie, there was the book; but before the book was the album the started it all.

After performing a 2017 concert of Simone's music at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra Ledisi wrote and starred in the theatrical production The Legend of Little Girl Blue ...

“Blues For Mama,” which she famously recorded a few months later on “Nina Simone Sings the Blues,” is also driven by apparent contradictions. She paints a picture of a typical male country blues ...

A recently unearthed live version of “Blues for Mama,” written by Simone and Abbey Lincoln in the 1960s, took on domestic abuse in a momentous way.

If the story of Nina Simone and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach isn't widely known, the late blues icon's daughter Lisa Simone is ready to change that.

If the story of Nina Simone and Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach isn't widely known, the late blues icon's daughter Lisa Simone is ready to change that. "My mother will have been dead 20 years and I'm still ...

Significant in being the first album from a leading figure, Simone's long-playing debut is often a dreary disappointment As a debut album, Little Girl Blue is a curate’s egg of a recording. Simone was ...

Her gratitude to Simone eventually resulted in her Grammy-nominated 2021 album, Ledisi Sings Nina. She brought that repertoire to the Mann on Friday, backed by her band and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Paul McCartney didn't know how to finish The Beatles' "Michelle" so John Lennon drew influence from a Nina Simone song.