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Let me make one thing perfectly clear, picking your favourite Nina Simone vocal performance is a little ... Her 1963 cover of ‘I Put A Spell On You’. Trust Simone to take one of the most iconic blues ...

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with the words, and he says, 'Where do I go from here?' I had been listening to Nina Simone I think it was 'I Put A Spell On ...

as she put it, came to her “in a rush of fury, hatred and determination”. Thus began a string of albums explicitly informed by her work with the civil rights movement, beginning with her 1964 live ...

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