28 Burst results for "Nina Simone"
WNYC 93.9 FM
"nina simone" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Tell the people what my art is worth Get it soon Don't believe it's a period to the darker races Just means you inferior living darker places God's amazing we artists this ain't a product placement huh Love is a spiritual technology So this album is a return to some of black stars themes of black excellence unity confronting racism pan africanism elevating consciousness How do you see these themes resonating today in a world that really is markedly different than it was 24 years ago Sure I agree with that social media I think more than anything we've seen in our lifetime has changed the landscape and changed the conversation The fans have a lot more access to the artists and so that can be a gift and that could be a curse I've experienced both gift and curse when it comes to that And I'm glad that you mentioned pan africanism In particular black star were named for the honorable Marcus garvey famously a Jamaican immigrant who came to America and was trying to build ships the black star line to get Americans back to Africa This is the sort of beginning of pan africanism and a push for reparations And so with black star we've always been about hip hop about pan africanism a spirituality all these things that are necessary for the liberation of our people And I think it's timely that we come back now Releasing this album in this moment where we've seen the reinvigoration of the movement for black lives but also an extreme reaction to it to stop it What is the message here The messaging on the black star album the first one resonates now And we weren't saying anything that much different than you know people like or Mary Baraka in the black arts movement and what Nina Simone was saying on stage towards the end of her career We stand tall on the shoulders of our ancestors The canon of black art is amazing and it is the lifeblood of all great art that comes from America in particular Black people in America have been the moral compass and we've been the ones who have elevated the art and we have been the ones who have made the most original American things.
WABE 90.1 FM
"nina simone" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Game and quickly picked ten of her favorite hymns But instead of tin instrumentals she had a request She said I'm not a vocalist but I'd like to sing on it I said you Nikki Giovanni There was one particular selection that Giovanni wanted to sing Nina Simone's night song recorded in 1964 Made the song was a dear friend And I said you know if we could do something I want to sing this for Nina I want to sing this particular song And he said well I need to change you know if I do what I need to bring it up to date and I said I couldn't agree more So that you'll hear here this is not truth is on its way This is not a traditional And I just thought it was wonderful This was a first for Giovanni singing is not something she'd ever thought she'd do But night song represents many things for her including Nina Simone's decision to leave the United States in search of belonging After experiencing the brutality of American racism Going who knows where Only thing I know I'm not going there but even with that understanding of what that song means to Giovanni her family was surprised that she'd actually sing the lyrics My cousin.
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"nina simone" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"Times. It's Monday, February 14th, 2022, happy Valentine's Day. I'm Gustav ariano and this is a mere questlove Thompson. Back when I was teaching at NYU, you know, my students were rather young. And you can't take for granted that they know what a thriller is. Or who run or DMC is, it's like, all right, boomer, what's important this week, public enemy, great, okay. You know, how do you make this resonate with them that this just not another history film about old people and their time? Suddenly, once George Floyd comes to the conversation. I'll just say that you really truly couldn't tell what was real on television and what was our film footage? It was interchangeable. The film footage questlove is talking about, it just earned him an Oscar nomination. The roots drummer and music legend sifted through 40 hours of archival footage of the 1969 Harlem cultural festival for his film. It was a festival where legends like Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder performed in the same summer as Woodstock, and he used that festival footage to put together his debut documentary, summer of Seoul, which was released last year. The film is now in the running for best original documentary at this year's Oscars. So today, we're airing an episode with questlove from our sister podcast to envelope. And we know you're gonna love it, so yeah, think of this as your heart shaped box of see's candies on Valentine's Day..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"nina simone" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Experience This week the translators listen to Nina Simone's song Brown baby I want you to live by the judge to go rosalia Gollum beats a zooms into the translation session from university in the Netherlands She says her classmates there think she's Spanish or Greek I'm just scared to say that Yeah my Hungarian Roman you know because I'm not sure about how they would handle it She finds strength in the last lines of the hill we climb She reads her translation For there was always light If only we're brave enough to see it if only we're brave enough to be it What do you get chills I think it just describes that everything is possible including she says this translation of one of her favorite poets which is set to come out this summer Friend PR news I'm Joanna kaki's in Budapest Across the country the latest surge in COVID-19 cases is affecting everyone from fast food workers to firefighters We're seeing more people going into isolation than we're seeing come out right now which is going to hampering our ability to staff all of our units That's Colin stole the fire chief in San Diego California About a 130 firefighters 10% of their workforce are in isolation due to a positive test or possible COVID exposure These are higher numbers than we would have ever expected And we're just don't have the ability right now to staff all of our apparatus due to that number of folks out This comes on the heels of them working so hard over the last two years and through COVID and we've just got an exhausted workforce and now we're seeing the effects of COVID similar like the general population is Stole says they've been shifting staff around and relying on overtime to keep all fire stations open But that does mean idling some teams For now they're still responding to all emergency calls and he's optimistic They won't see a worst case scenario There's some other mechanisms that we can look at cutting down the number of responses or the types of calls we go on But we're really hopeful with the numbers that we're seeing in the short duration that we're seeing these folks in isolation that is not going to turn out that way Stole things the next few weeks may be the hardest until the omicron wave passes Our hope is that we can really get through January Our plan is robust enough that we can still staff all of the fire stations and limit the number of units that we have to shut down until we can get all of our folks back and healthy And give some of their exhausted firefighters a much needed break This is NPR news This is WNYC in New York today on all of it Alison Stewart speaks with filmmaker Adam McKay about his new film don't look up about the politics of avoiding near certain catastrophe in a film that kind of speaks to our times Plus the hosts of the podcast dateable or what romance looks like in 2022 That's at noon today on 93.9 FM Low 30s watch.
Backlisted
"nina simone" Discussed on Backlisted
"And the TV without the noisy surges of hand dries and the bleeping of trained doors without the plastic unknowable surfaces and the dry air containment of his life without pulsing lights of the ceaseless sense of personal availability without all of these things. I might have been different, walking would have been part of ordinary life, like learning the names of trees and flowers, and identifying birds by their song. I would have written with ink on soft paper and read in the evenings and heard music only when somebody sat down to play it. I would have seldom encountered the chaotic press of too many bodies in one place, and perhaps my nerves would have been steadier for it. As a woman, of course, there are a few points in history where I would have felt the advantages of this great sensory freedom. And so I must content myself with the noisy demanding present day and be grateful for it. But that is why we need diagnosis like ASD so that people like me can explore the strange ways that we might fit into this Brave New World. It's a lovely book. We are offering listeners three absolute copper bottom fantastic books today as far as I'm concerned. I agree. Catherine's book, Nina Simone's gum and the book coming up, they're all terrific. So thanks for bringing that one John. Great. We're going to hear a piece of music now before we go into the main discussion, and I'm saying to my guests and my producer and my co hosts, there are a potential two points available to you if you can spot no three, three. Why have I why? How are we going to hear this particular piece of music? There was nothing to build I knew him well a fellow who was funder tricks.
AP News Radio
Bond and 'Willy Wonka' songwriter Leslie Bricusse dies at 90
"Songwriter Leslie Bricusse died Tuesday at the age of ninety according to his son no cause of death was given I marches are a letter with a look at his career S. Leslie Bricusse room for stage and screen but his songs often became pop he wrote the score for the nineteen seventy one film **** Wonka and the chocolate factory which featured the candy man and your imagination precursor lyrics for John berry's music for the bond theme songs Goldfinger and you only live twice Amanda because when an Oscar for writing talk to the animals from doctor do little and then fees and he wrote Nina Simone signature song feeling good
Perspective
"nina simone" Discussed on Perspective
"Radio specials. The year was nineteen sixty nine. Yes we went to the moon that year and yes. There was a little gathering. North of new york city called woodstock but that's summer. another festival also took place one. You might not have heard of. It was called the harlem cultural festival and it featured some of the biggest names in music. Abc's byron pitts has more on that historic musical event. Was this beautiful event in the family stone. Bb king nina simone. All types of bars pop acts of the day gospel acts like elliott jackson. All these key figures in black music came together the breathtaking performances so beautifully documented and vivid color now featured in the new hulu documentary summer of soul directed by amir thomson otherwise known as plus love. This film is packing a lot of emotion for people that i didn't realize the festival came at a heartbreaking historic time in black america and one year after the assassination of doctor. Martin luther king. Junior sort the impetus of the whole festival was the fact that when martin luther king was assassinated all of america inner city america went up in flames with riding and not wanting a repeat performance of what happened. That made it easier for the city to okay. The idea of having some sort of event that we keep people occupied during the weekend. Six weeks festival. Showcase an astonishing group of the likes.
Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast
"nina simone" Discussed on Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast
"You're not gonna miss anything really. I mean it's like there's no like spoiler alert. You know nina simone flies with jet pack or something you know i didn't i didn't get oh man i mean it's the performance to it's the credit krell makram performances of this. But i'm a huge nina simone fan. Anyways it's weird. There is some. I don't know like i grew up in you know in a black family my stepfather. This was all he listened to this this kind of music you know. In like he was in the fifth dimension so seen maryland mccoo and billy davis junior who were in my stepdad's wedding when he married my mom like i have a stepdad was in the fifth dimension. Yeah he was okay. I never knew this yeah. I don't think we've talked about it. I know but i have a picture of me. Sitting maryland mccoo slap in one thousand. Nine hundred seventy loved that -actly. Yeah well so. My stepdad from saint louis and so is the fifth dimension. Billy davis junior and maryland. Mccoo and So he was in the fifth dimension before they went to l. a. Okay so as before they did. The you know the age of aquarius. Those kinda hits So they went to l. a. and became famous my stepdad stayed in saint louis and got married etc etc wedding. Okay yeah yeah well he. That was his best friend. Kindergarten was billy davis junior or best friends and they were going to read before my stepdad died. There was talk of them doing a gospel. 'cause my stepdad was a piano player. Gospel singer yeah. And so yeah. He and billy davis. We're going to do a gospel album. Say anyways really musical household than i imagined. Oh my goodness yeah i mean. My stepfather was the reason. I play piano because i would watch him. And just be like whoa like. How do you do that. How do you do with that is is now is always mesmerized so yeah very musical household and this was you know they got my mom and my stepfather got married in seventy five okay..
Filmspotting
"nina simone" Discussed on Filmspotting
"There's ambition at play on behalf of me so all of these. Things are kind of circulating together in and the result is just this you know all-time performance i'm telling you that was the time of my life. When she gave me that microphone back. I say oh she likes that. I'm doing my number. Two is the fifth dimension redemption. I'm calling it where you see that performance. But you see the faces of maryland. Mccoo and billy davis junior as they watched. Yes they relive those moments. They relive that performance. Obviously they haven't seen it themselves either. They experienced it but they've never seen that performance until now and we get to experience that viewing along with them and the line that he says. Actually i think marilyn says is we were so happy to be there because as you noted they felt like there was a separation between them and the black community. A lot of people thought they sounded white. They really hadn't been embraced. They were maybe a little nervous even coming to that stage and they really wanted to prove themselves this for them was like maybe the most important performance of their careers up to that point and maybe ever and then to just experience it with them as they deliver and the joy and the emotion on their face that's really really powerful and then the number one. It's it's nina simone. i mean for me. It's actually that i number. It's backlash.
Filmspotting
Black Widow Movie Review
"Spectacle of the big screen. Variety has also been in great supply recently. We'll get to several new releases this week. Well several being four steven soderbergh's latest the crime drama. No sudden move. That came to hbo. Max last week. Don cheadle the neo del toro and a bunch of other great actors in that one also summer of soul from first time. Director quests love came to theaters into hulu that concert doc about a nineteen sixty nine harlem concert series that featured performances by nina simone stevie wonder sly and the family stone and many more all of those having never been seen since nineteen sixty nine our review of that one could just be a ranking of our top five favorite moments. We might. We might even do that. Josh that would probably get us through the first half hour of the movie. I think we can pick five from that. Yeah you also caught up with zola which stars riley keough a wild road trip tale inspired at least in part by an infamous twitter thread. I can't wait for you to unpack that and more later in the show. But i the is finally back on a big screen near you after a handful of disney plus streaming series phase for kicks off with the scarlett johansson starring feature black widow. Fine an enter. I mean mistakes. A lot of enemies is called signs. Taskmaster he controls the red room. They're manipulated fully conscious but no choices. I should have come back for you. How many others are call. Her black widow call her and natasha. Romanoff scarlett johansson returns as the former kgb assassin turned avenger in the twenty fourth mc feature which is named after her now timeline. Wise black widow takes place in the aftermath of captain america civil war. I think i've got that right. Adam had to confirm it with my daughter who knows more about the than i do. I think that's correct
Radio Boston
"nina simone" Discussed on Radio Boston
"That is out. Today we wanted progress. We are black people that we should be proud of this. We were coming together to say this is our world and how beautiful mortada sing together. Don't wait for them. Was you may be. We believed in what we fill it in here so we will do. Though this is summer. Sol- is a documentary. Produced by quest loves the drummer for the roots talking about the harlem culture festival in august nineteen sixty nine I mean just looking at the lineup of of musical acts that are going to be featured in this. Stevie wonder nina simone sly and the family stone gladys knight and the pips safe to say we all can be excited for this one but why are you guys excited to see this an entire. Believe you actually seen this already. Tell us a little bit about. It tells more about the film. So this is this was filmed is actually videotaped. In summer of nine hundred sixty nine. The festival took place over six weekends. So it's not all on the same weekend and the it was never made into a movie and they would basically sat in cans for fifty years until quest love. Heard about it He directed if you didn't just produce director tabatha say. This movie is edited. Really not just the musical acts but the cuts between the audience the talking heads the archival stuff from what's going on in nineteen sixty nine it is. It is a hell of a ride and the music. Maybe the acts are are just insanely good. He got stevie wonder at nineteen between little stevie wonder and you know maturity talking book. You've got slammed his family's down just completely tearing up the stage. Got nina simone. You've got mahalia. Jackson wedding with mavis staples which will just set your hair on fire gladys knight and the pips got. Who who. who isn't in this thing. David ruffin say my girl. It's just it's a phenomenally in my mind. It's instantly i classic rock document and i. I wonder also like for me. A reason to be excited is to kind of just see that energy even though i might not be the place where it'd be going to a music festival or anything but to kind of capture that essence as well on film especially right now. I wonder if that kind of changes people's perspective into senior for the first time standing kind of elbow to elbow with thousands of other folks Throughout the crowd. I was actually reading. That quest. love picked the footage for for the documentary from just watching a twenty four hour loop of footage of this concert. Basically nonstop everywhere. He went would be watching footage and had more than three hours of basically had to cut down to to tie. You mentioned this was a six week. Extravaganza basically how do you make a film about that and tell that story in a compelling way well each weekend was a different kind of genre of music. There's a gospel weekend sfjazz weekend. There was a soul weekend..
Slate's Culture Gabfest
"nina simone" Discussed on Slate's Culture Gabfest
"Off generation and is the climate roughly the same in the mosul and in burgundy geminis kuna. It gets really hot in summertime and there's a lot of committee and if you look at all the pictures come despite of bone you can see it. Used to be loads of lake. Central voter level is very high. Another thing in burgundy which is really interesting a descent as inevitably because of the voter ever being so high which is really good for the balance because we have another permitted to in the senate but he also committed to outside you. Just get out of the shower and salmon cool at night of the statehood in the summit. The moment they have really fact. I doubt this year has been terrible. Right operated for thirty three years and had never seen before for background. Never ever charlie's jerry. We'll have to enjoy the twenty eight and in two thousand nine hundred because the twenty twenty one. They're going to be like hen's teeth if you can find them at all you literally grew up. In the cellars. Right making these wines'll surrounded by these winds up on the most of actually really wonderful and you could see all year long people. Can i think one of my favorites experience at that. Time is at the end of the school day. macabre Touted the village. I needed to bait typified a finnish folk save. I love running to center on asking everybody deter now by doing this. And how old were you. That was about six seven years Ecstatic actually fix. We already had our own bank classes spending very smooth. They've attended classes so they could try but early alleged. Try something we had to split it at the right age to start drinking recently. I think it's a perfect edge to try to starting to develop a taste. Of course you have a vineyard. Doug oh yes but pinot pinot is the name of the dog. Pinot is the name of the jockeys mostly piano blow get penalty at the end of the day during the harvest. His love the idea of him. Getting schmaltzy gal in the fields becoming pinot noir. That's just the most glorious vision one if the questions. I've been asking everyone on this. Podcast is is white burgundy the best wine in the world yes or no. It's fine on the galaxy. It's complex and elegant and unappealing on deafness something unique because it's a genetic crepe itself claypool changes or time states with his main character which comes from the so you know. We have some type of spices habit. Neighbors aren't trump Nearly every year from the specific so but during that time are have at time where they chose ended Protected open up in open class. Wicket somebody into the class and fest feeling than your Tried a second dip under think. Oh wow this is no compete different than before on. Its opening up and sharing or the potential. So that's i think that makes our vice. We'd especially an muslim reasoning. Would be number. Two is extra chicken fish quiet. Thank you again to ever rave joining us today and for telling us all about her amazing white burgundy if you're not a member of the sleep wine club already joining is easy. Just text sleet do eight seven. Eight seven seven seven five two eight three to set up your first shipment and you'll be well on your way to enjoying premium wines like the twenty eighteen white burgundy we just did not to mention developing a appreciation for the expert winemakers who fill hourglasses..
ICYMI
"nina simone" Discussed on ICYMI
"And salmon cool at night of the statehood in the summit. The moment they have really fact i start. This year has been terrible right. Operated for thirty three years and had never seen ever before for background. Never ever it was going to. Charlie's jerry we'll have to enjoy the twenty eight and in two thousand nine hundred because the twenty twenty one. They're going to be like hen's teeth if you can find them at all you literally grew up. In the cellars. Right making these wines'll surrounded by these winds up on the most of actually really wonderful. You could see all year long people. Can i think one of my favorites experience at that. Time is at the end of the school day. Macabre Touted the village. I needed to bait. Typified a finnish folk Left running to center on asking everybody deter now by doing this. And how old were you. That was about six seven years Actually fix we already had our own bank. Classes spending very smooth attended classes so they could try but early alleged. Try something we had to split it at the right age to start drinking recently. I think it's a perfect edge to try to start getting to develop a taste. Of course you have a vineyard. Doug oh yes but pinot pinot is the name of the dog. Pinot is the name of the jockeys mostly piano blow get penalty at the end of the day during the harvest. His pin love the idea of him. Getting schmaltzy gal in the fields becoming pinot noir. That's just the most glorious vision. One if the questions. I've been asking everyone on this. Podcast is is white burgundy the best wine in the world yes or no. It's fine on the galaxy. It's complex and elegant and on deafness something unique because it's a genetic crepe itself claypool changes or time states with his main character which comes from the so you know. We have some type of spices habit. Neighbors on trump Nearly every year from the specific so but during that time are half at time where they chose ended Protected open up in open class. Wicket somebody into the class and fest feeling did bit Tried a second dip under think. Oh wow this is no compete different than before on. Its opening up and sharing or the potential. So that's i think that makes our vice. We'd especially an muslim number. Two is extra chicken fish quiet. Thank you again to ever rave joining us today and for telling us all about her amazing white burgundy if you're not a member of the sleep wine club already is easy. Just text sleet do eight seven. Eight seven seven seven five two eight three to set up your first shipment and you'll be well on your way to enjoying premium wines like the twenty eighteen white burgundy we just did not to mention developing a appreciation for the expert winemakers who fill hourglasses..
Slate's Culture Gabfest
"nina simone" Discussed on Slate's Culture Gabfest
"Hello and welcome to the sleet wine club. I'm felix salmon and you may know me as the host of sleet money or guide to the business and finance news of the week. But i am also as many sleep. Money listeners will remember a bit of a wine love them. I like to drink wine to talk about wine on to think about wine and really underneath everything. I like the storytelling of wine. I really think that wine is about stories and memory and experiences and the idea of transporting yourself to a different place. These are the things that the heart of the slate wine club. It's not about you know tasting notes and tannin's mala lactic fermentation and micro oxygenation and that kind of thing. It's about place and people and stories and just getting to enjoy a variety of premium wines and learning about them thrim these expert wayne make this often who've been making wyans not just themselves but in their families for hundreds of years and these stories ruling. Help me enjoy wine. No hope you enjoy wine but before we talk to today's winemaker. You probably want to know why you should join the club and how to become a member of so as asleep wine club member you'll get expertly. Curated selections of premium wines made by some of the world's winemakers each shipment includes three bottles of unique high quality wines. Delivered right to your door in joining his easy. Just text sleet to eight. Seventy seven seven sleep that's s. l. e. two eight seven eight seven seven seven five. Two eight three was. Uc your wines. You'll be able to sip each one while listening to an interview with the talented winemaker. Who crafted it. And that's exactly what we're doing today with ever ray. She's german she was born in. The mozell literally grew up sipping and spitting riesling but moved to burgundy to make some of the greatest wines in the world. White bag these right now. We're gonna be drinking two thousand eighteen could didn't we blunk which is a fantastic wine but it's plea much about as young as ever raise winds get. It's great designed to be young even three years old but as you'll hear white burgundy can get very old and very special so this could be a fantastic introduction to one of the great wines of the planet ever ray. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast and telling us all about your now. I'm gonna say this with great excitement white burgundy back and jason exam. I wish i knew it better. It's the one part of the world. I always want to drink more of everyday best buy or the complexity for their profounder. Folks are having a special dependent. Having babies. do not take sip all the time doing the vindication process in the butler sosa complex vanity opinion especially and the chattanooga's burgundies separate for because it's has a bundler show hasek tabs on your lab stones and it's quiet and one of the most beautiful places. Wine country is always beautiful but burgundy is particularly beautiful except in their only really to grapes in burgundy pinot for the reds and chardonnay for the whites. But this is not the chardonnay that american drink is think of when they think of chardonnay. I mean america has political. Chattan is to stags Descendant aggrava- vines a mate at different perimeters. This wine is at a two thousand. Eighteen is three years old most of you or otherwise you would generally recommend drinking bit older than that but it's a difficult question because it depends with cancer. Confirm some people genuinely like younger vines. If you look down to england to japan it would be shocked to sink them after for five years. Our question of pace. So i posted it until remind understood. Had some fish nets and condemn occurred. So i've Stand after perhaps obsessed with advice from the courtroom. We you see. This is where my english roots showing. My grandfather was a big wind in england in the sixties and seventies. And i think that's where i got my love Older wines some people call me a necrophiliac when it comes to winds very old but this one. I like my wife's fresh of this. So i can try and work out what you're talking about here and try and understand a little bit about the uniqueness of white burgundy and how it's just like no other wine on the planet even though it is made from probably the most ubiquitous scrape on at he showed in a pretty much everywhere cooking i think because Adapt to different so which much to contribute. But tell me about yourself. I'm hearing that you are not french. No actually my climbing is punch from. The most valley will backpost but for listening. I mean if you're in the mosul that's what you grow riesling right sling executives. But she also had a nip. Assume i'm during the second world by was very important for surgeon. Scores event is basically able to stay home to make sure that there was not frankfurt soda. Just love this story so much because it's so gloriously european when the world went to war and it was the most terrible time in european history. The the one thing that you really needed to make sure kept on going was wine production and if you're a winemaker you didn't need to become a soldier because you had something more important to coach van. I have not read it. It's really amazing. Book different stats of different. Bad families for how they tried to hide the violence from sodas and how gives them some piles of the seller all the binds into lakes and then finally labored special. Coming off sara after the same. My from todd was going on the inadequacy on or so bought some simpler taper binds in fines. I'm the company. He used to hope that he was burgundy and really finding in love with burgundy the bag countryside with the different way by making imed across of the live. 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Slate's Culture Gabfest
"nina simone" Discussed on Slate's Culture Gabfest
"Hashtag needs simone. Well now. i'm hooked nina simone and kamala harris in the same sentence so this prompted me and you to do some research. This was the point. At which i think we both saw the tweets and said oh. It's time to pull up a magnifying glass out. Little inspector hat and trying to figure out what exactly ran a simone kelly. Talking about an wia. She has invoked the name of v. Pos after nina simone died her daughter. So that's kelly's mother lisa simone. Kelly was put in charge of the estate of nina. Simone nina simone's final wishes were that her wealth be used to fund musical education for children in africa. If that sounds vague take it up with you. Know a ghost if you want in two thousand thirteen though. Lisa simone kelly steps down from this role in a fairly public legal battle. She's accused of breaching fiduciary duty allegedly diverting funds including a reported one point five million into her own bank account Per report from the daily beast who looked at some of the legal filings in the case which shutouts the daily beast for these records that were floating around on twitter because the internet los abuse loof. So we're comal. Harris comes in as she at. This point is attorney general of the state of california. So this case is under her and at one point according to the daily beast. She wants to surcharge. Lisa's mon kelly almost six million dollars and then two and a half million dollars in interest like a very large sum of money scientifically. I would say a lotta fucking money. Eventually ends with an agreement between both parties sc. Kelly no longer is involved with the estate. She loses her rights to her mother's work and then probably most importantly related to her. What her daughter is now. Tweeting lisa simone. Kelly can no longer say or even imply that she is connected to her. Mother's work to her mother's estate exactly and so. This battle happens in two thousand thirteen. It is reopened when the granddaughter of nina simone opens up about it in detail over the weekend on twitter see in a lot of paddlers thread. Panton move tweeted do and then started tweeting again. Tm check him her family to make sure it was okay because again he's legal battle. Twenty thirteen specifies that her mother is not allowed to say that she has any affiliation with nina simone's state so this twitter comes out it immediately goes viral. Yeah she makes a lot of very serious claims she talks about that. The estate of nina simone is in a shambles that her family no longer owns any any of nina. Simone's work that her mother almost killed herself from the depression related to the legal battles and then she also tweets. You know while we're just asking. Oh i forgot about this part. Yes while we're just asking comma hairs like wow. She's done all these things to my family allegedly allegedly. that's me. I am the lawyer for him. I she also says let's ask kamla harris wia nina. Simone song was saying at the inauguration to sway her in as vp which john legend did perform at the televised inaugural ball singing nina. Simone's feeling good. I mean speaking of pandemic musical events where you have one artist alone playing on the lincoln memorial on the on the national mall. New life for me. Ooh ooh but i mean you have to admit that knowing the way kambas involved in this fucking like lawsuit for her to have a nina. Simone song is a little shady. I kinda love it so at this point. Simone kelly's mother post the video on instagram. I support her. One thousand percent support everything. She's saying she's speaking her truth. She's speaking the truth of our family. She also supported khloe. Bailey's interpretation of feeling. Good which i second. I think she did an amazing job. Have you seen the documentary. What happened miss simone feeling. Good yes i have i actually. I really liked that documentary. But that documentary is not super complementary to nina simone and her relationship with her daughter. If i remember correctly right. I mean that's one of the it's a few years old now but one of the things i remember enjoying about it or finding enriching about it is it does paint a fairly comprehensive picture right you. You lisa talked about her. Mother is being abusive. And that nina simone abandoned her when she moved to berea she calls her mother a monster and also in equal measure talks about her mother's gifts and talent and the music she shared with the world. When mom was see you cry. She knew she could push your buttons. That's what she wanted. And i would not give her that satisfaction when she would hit me. I would look her dead in her face and she liked. You better cry cry. I wouldn't do it. You get this kind of complete picture. Which is what i was thinking about. When going to smoke tweets. A second thread that offers a different set of allegations about how the legal proceedings in two thousand thirteen actually went down according to her. She's a lot. And it's plainly kind of refuting though twitter sleuths who over the weekend have just been like pulling court document after core document circulating them on twitter and saying actually misery. Honest moan kelly. Your mother was embezzling. Like that's why you don't have anything to do with your grandmother's a stay and there's a lot of speculation. Actually that ran a simone. Kelly didn't know about this kind of court case drama and that that's why she did this twitter thread like maybe no one informed her. Their mother was embezzling which is somewhat paternalistic and in this second thread. She kind of directly addresses that and says her mother never embezzled funds that her being stripped of her title as a state administrator was a calculated. Legal move on communist part. because and i'm quoting directly from a tweet here in the revoked will kamo was using which is a whole other story unto itself. Tell us tell. The story please ran. My mom was protected in every way from litigation especially she used attorneys and accountants to help her run the estate which she did mom being forced to resign would strip her of her protection. Simone kelly also says that since nina simone state was french nina. Simone was a french resident. The us government actually had no rights be involved. I'm not a lawyer. don't we have established. We are not not mathematicians not scientists. I think the best way to sum up that second threat is the rana simone. Kelly refutes all of the claims that are running around twitter and have been reported about this twenty thirteen legal proceeding and then offers up her own set of allegations about what actually went down..
ICYMI
"nina simone" Discussed on ICYMI
"Okay the literal range. No waste the liberal range not me appropriating this phrase she. I'm literally commenting on the range of notes. Which she sings in this cover you will hear now dispeat- for me khloe has a pipe on her but the thing about this performance and the thing about this song and the cover of it is the. I'm so sorry but it's really giving me like college burlesque troupe. But with a budget. Like i love her so much but i cannot lie and say that i saw this video coming across and i did not. I can't lie and say didn't start. Laughing i fully did. It's just like you did. Prompt me to google the fifty shades of grey soundtrack. Because i was convinced absolutely convinced that cover of feeling good was on in one of those movies. It was not this in my head but it wasn't last holiday the iconic movie with queen latifah. But it's just the thought of gray in this long. It's just really funny. The combination of it being for juneteenth special just reminded me of this absolutely iconic and how this performance was kind of a non ironic version of it. We're gonna play this vine. I'm going to pause an advance because you're going to have the stuck in your head for the next two weeks was bad. Bricks brick red river. Our shaking that aired out make k. Rachel gone down for the count. I listen. I listen to that mine in preparation because episode still fully. Stop laughing because that's what this exact vibe performance gave me and woody gave a lot of the internet clearly because after his performance video jobs on twitter like people colleges roaster like a malicious way. But just a like a you know. It's objectively funny. She's you paint like feeling herself in her catsuit alone with. I assume smattering of crew members and masks operating us. Yeah it's just so funny like just imagine showing up to like. I don't know a dedication ceremony for june teeth in. You're like there's khloe just you know absolutely living her best life with this fifty shades s cover chloe and halle actually used to share an instagram account and in relatively recent internet history have now established independent internet brands and chloe getting shamed for how she dresses and the photographs. She posts i mean. Do we still say slut shaming in two thousand twenty one. Because that's that's i think a good way to describe like what she experiences online exactly. And i want to make a distinction between like the kind of original reaction. I saw and like the that where this is going to tell. This is going. Yes so the first reaction. I saw is fully aware of the way in which khloe getting sledge. Am it's like most of the reaction is from black woman themselves and it's just like playfully clouding her and the way you would like your cousin like it's like no one is slut shaming her. It's just like this is a fucking hilariously. This is a non ironic version of mike. Pompeo's sita sam cook. But like then the internet gets a hold of it and it stops being fun like fully south being fun because then people earnestly are yelling about how close performance was like too sexy and denigrating the good wholesome name of one nina simone. I would question what did they think. Feeling good about. I'm just like have you listened to the words of that song like it's like you know khloe chose strange fruit or some shit like that would actually like no. She picked the song that had a vibe and also. Let's be real here. Nina simone lake would have laughed at this performance in like a non malicious way or like fully supported it because miss simone at one point said my attitude towards sex was that we should be having it all the time sets positive is under selling it. I'm tired reading all the time. I'm just like miss miss simone but she likes. She famously danced naked a nightclub in liberia and so for this kind of online backlash to be like. How dare you besmirch the legacy of nina simone by being sexy like you. Ma'am are besmirching. The legacy evenings abon by saying that she is not your eight. Yeah i really wish this was the end of the story but at this point in the saga the ghost of nina simone weighs in on twitter. The ghost the estate of nina simone tweets. It's thoughts about the khloe performance in a a now deleted kind of shady tweet. It was a gif of nina. Simone de girl sit down and the tweet is now nowhere to be found but of course you can find it everywhere online but i mean this is the thing nina simone died in two thousand and three twitter was launched in two thousand six. For what reason is there. A official nina simone twitter account. That's not just tweeting. Like what nina. The most music is currently being used. But kind this tweeting in the voice of nina simone. As nina simone is alive because someone at the estate of nina simone kency the and knew that decades later juneteenth become federalized as a holiday and that a young pop star or star would make a sexy cover of feeling good and they would need to weigh in. I really wish that person at the nina simone state would use their powers of precedence for something better than this. Yeah it's sort of funny too when you read through the tweets on the estate of nina simone account. Because they're like the more recent ones are not super voisey. There's a recent tweet about how they very proudly licensed feeling good for a dove commercial. Jarring a'dove commercial. So some of these state of nina simone realizes that this tweet was about idea the tweet gets deleted. And that's the end of the story right. Here's wish shit gets messy nina simone granddaughter simone. Kelly comes through to defend khloe. But that's not just it. She also adds approximately seventeen layers to the drama so the first tweet from kelley goes like everyone's coming at kelly bailey for her performance but we don't understand is that grandma was a free spirited woman herself. She would've loved that performance as much as i do. Relax khloe killed. It goes on referred her grandmother as a muffled and bad ass woman. Who did what she wanted to when she wanted to. Which again this could be the end. But it's not it could be but it's not approximately some. So after she defends khloe she quote tweets. This tweet from rando. That says nina. Simone passed away april twenty first two thousand three and twitter launched july fifteenth. Two thousand six. Why would her state even make an account for her. Like promoting posthumous projects and whatnot is fine but actually trying to impersonate and interact is very weird simone. Kelly then comes in with a quote tweet saying nina's granddaughter here my family. Does it run her estate anymore. It was taken from us and given to white people are family name was dragged in the media we get no royalties nothing to hold someone accountable as kamala harris. Why she came from my family..
ICYMI
"nina simone" Discussed on ICYMI
"Diversify racism they take it off line too. I feel like we should note and rachel lindsay points out in her piece like she had to hire security personal security To quite literally. Protect her physically. Yes it's not. Just i think to think about hatred online. It often gets watered down in people's minds to oh trolls and name calling and just mutant block them. Get over no. This is very real. It is mentally emotionally and physically damaging. And i can't wait to read this book honestly. Yeah he's like. I will be first in line to preorder that. Tell all because. I cannot recommend this piece enough. There's just a lot of details like if you watch the bachelor you'll want to know but even if you don't there's i mean madison you you're reading this piece and you were like. Wow i idea. And i was like another bachelor idea and then you read the piece. And you're like okay. This franchises wild messy messy messy. But that's enough on a racism today after the break. We'll be back with more racism at different kind of racism or respectability politics. Whatever specifically we'll be talking about the drama then full on twitter over the weekend after khloe bailey of the conic duo chloe and halle did a juneteenth tribute set to cover of nina. Simone feeling good that went viral for a few. Maybe like twenty seven. Different reasons is a new will. Explain all twenty-seven of those after the break it's a new love me and to noon domus and new new live for me and feeding in right now. Our lives are on our phones. I am constantly staring at twitter watching tiktok sending work emails forgetting to call my mom. There's just no room for fraud calls thankfully. At and t. Makes customer security a priority helping block those pesky calls. It's not complicated. At and t. Active armor twenty four seven proactive network security and fraud call blocking to help stop threats at no extra charge. Compatible device and service required visit att dot com slash active armor for details. This episode of ice he. Why am i is brought to you by gold. Peak tea gold. Real bertie is about as refreshing as it gets and they're committed to showing off the natural goodness of t plain and simple goldfish rover. T comes in a variety of flavors including sweet unsweetened and georgia peach multi fans will notice that. Gold silver t. Gotta make over the outside of every bottle now has a brand new look but inside. It's the same real brewed tea. You know and love gold peak. Rilburg t is real about. What's good like being unapologetically. Wholesome with your family is your family is too real for t. That's fake. Look for gold. Peak rover t in its newly redesigned bottle. Wherever you grab your groceries. Don't just it real. Keep it real brewed gold peak. Real t stay gold okay. We are back and feeling good. You just had to you. i really. It was right there yet. Low hanging fruit my apologies to these date of nina simone. Please don't see me. I don't even know where to start with this story. But i guess we can say that it starts june team when chloe bailey of chlorine halley. Who if you don't know where have you been. But they are the kind of musical wonder kids proteges of beyond say their album ungodly hour superb in every single way. Where were you truly. where were you anyway. Khloe one of the sisters of the duo performed rendition of nina simone. Feeling good for a juneteenth special on. Abc and This friend dish in was interesting to save. It looks great. She's in like on black body suit. She looks absolutely incredible and so she's wearing this. This incredible outfit. She's in a room alone. As most kind of pandemic arab performances are for specials. Now and.
Slate's Culture Gabfest
"nina simone" Discussed on Slate's Culture Gabfest
"To be taking you on a wild journey that starts with a pretty innocuous cover of nina simone classic and influence alleged embezzlement and somehow involve one vice president. Kamla hairs reach. That's a mad libs. That's a fill in the blank paragraph like at a noun adverb remember what an adverb is at an adverb. It's amazing because the description gets it. Perhaps four percent of the story. Mostly though it's a story about how when you find yourself falling into an internet cafe whole of drama and mess like the one rachel just so eloquently described in brief the smartest thing you can do honestly is to take a beat take a breath and do a little bit of your own research. The reality of events usually ends up different than say the original viral tweet might have indicated but first we simply have to talk about madison's absolute favorite topic the bachelor franchise in the outline for today's show. You wrote batch for a brief leading moment. I thought we were gonna talk about bach. Which i thought okay. I'm ready i. I'm sorry to disappoint you. We're not talking about bach. we're talking about batch. The most important thing in the world the late baroque only god anyway. These weren't talking about this. Because on monday rachel lindsay the first black bachelorette did a huge as toll to interview with allison davis and the top line of it is shits fucked up. The real meat of it is that rachel really held nothing back. There were no holds bar like it was full of incredible details and kind of just really outlined how terribly this franchise has treated her. It sort of starts out in present day ish. She lays out this story with that interview with chris. Harrison defending rachel connell attending a racist party in antebellum southern dress. Yet right good job. i'm so proud of you. I'm actually really so the core of the story at least my understanding of it as a bachelor. Bachelorette neophyte is that she's calling out the toxicity of the show's fandom. Yes and there's perhaps no one better acquainted with it than rachel lindsay. I'm going to give you a brief outline of her time on the bachelorette but if you guys want to know more than you can always listen to our bachelor episode wherein which. I give a mini. A master's thesis on my theories are but as i said before rachel first black bachelorette. She was cast on a season of the bachelor with a white lead. In this piece she talks about how the producers approached her from the beginning. They were very aware of her place. As one of the first black contestants with a really accomplished career she is a lawyer and was working with a really religious law firm and it was kind of just a story that had not been told on the bachelorette she goes into the -tations with it and the way that she was treated on nick season. Which is she kind of always knew that she wasn't ever going to marry him and the kind of way. They framed her disputes with other contestants. In this way of like black woman is aggressive in cold as as white woman is crying so this is her doing that. People white people we stop doing that. Truly and so she goes into this. She's approached to be the bachelorette and she has like a full hesitations about it. She's like. I don't think i wanna do this. This franchise has just. I don't think it's ready for that. But she goes home and these people at our church are like my daughter's excited to see you because she's never seen someone like her do this and so she does the bachelorette and it does not go well. It's impossible to summarize like that season but like they're racist contestants made plotline in a way that is like deeply harmful to rachel herself her final choice as she ends up marrying framed as kind of like a backup to this white man because they really want to focus on this white man who was like objectively mediocre basically. She's not treated well. And then that doesn't even get into the bachelor phantom of it all otherwise known as bachelor nation but rachel in this piece with p davis makes a distinction between bachelor nation and bachelor clan clan with a k. I was gonna say in case. It's not very obvious. yes she says. Bachelor clan is a hateful racist misogynist xenephobic and homophobic. They are afraid of change. They are free to be uncomfortable. They are afraid when they get called out what she kind of gets. That is the way. In which the bachelor franchise this like. Nineteen twenty year old franchise has cultivated this toxic audience and in wanting to kind of modernize or cravenly capitalize on the ground swell of support for like diverse leads. They wanna have their cake and eat it too which is to not alienate their core toxic audience but have this lead who their audience is going to attack over and over and over again even once. She leaves the show right because she got bullied of instagram. Correct after her yassin. Yeah so rachel ends up after the show being really involved in bachelor nation. She does podcast. She's kind of actually tried it out as like look at this thing that we did. But she's also consistently criticizing and pushing the franchise be better. This brings up an interesting point. We talk about when we talk about a lot of online celebrities or celebrities to then go onto have big online presences. Is that fans. Start to feel this weird sense of entitlement to every and all aspects and moments of their lives. Yes and they feel very possessive of this way to put it that. They consume and in their possessiveness. They don't i mean they don't like change and they don't like being pushed because things like the bachelor or reality. Television in general are kind of framed as a slight comfort fluff thing and so people don't want to think critically about the things that they're consuming because they're not really taking super seriously anyway but the show runners. In always looking to broaden their audience. Want to be able to have black people be the lead or have just like people on the show or just don't want to be called out for being actively races but what they don't wanna do have to actually deal with this toxic audience that they've created and that they are putting this black lead in front of like their opening this person up to a firing squad and wanting to be clapped for starting off with a real light one today super way just as you know some frivolous reality television and the incredibly terrible audiences that they cultivate that they don't want to alienate but that they are actively trying to diversify while not acknowledging that you can't.
AP News Radio
Questlove uncovers 'Black Woodstock' in his hit Sundance doc
"I'm Julie Walker a landmark nineteen sixty nine Harlem concert series with Stevie Wonder Nina Simone sly and the family stone BB king and so many others finally becomes a documentary and it's pri Mary at the Sundance Film Festival summer of soul became a labor of love for first time director Questlove how easy is it for history to be erased and why is this mainly always having the black people that's an actual band leader was approached by producers to direct after footage from the concert which took place the same year end in the same state as Woodstock had been languishing in storage for decades now is my chance to change someone's life N. N. and tell a story that you know was almost erased the documentary open Sundance where it garnered immediate acclaim and countless at home dance parties for virtual festival goers including Questlove I'm Julie Walker
KGO 810
"nina simone" Discussed on KGO 810
"I'm Pat Thurston. I never heard that song before. That was Nina Simone, who I think is on believable. And if you don't know her music, I encourage you to discover it. She's fabulous. I want to grab a quick call here from Craig in Berkeley. Greg, you got about a minute and a half ago. Okay, girl? Yeah, real quick. You probably heard that before I've had, but you know that people say they're democratic. Go Democrat or I was gonna vote Hillary or I was gonna vote for it. And then I ended up voting Trump. I don't know. How the hell did you say? I don't have a L. You say you're a Democrat. But yet you voted Trump. Why'd you mad at somebody? I'm going to go to trial and he's gonna what the hell that trump going to give you that the Democrat is not giving him what is he going to give you? A true Democrat do not would not would not. Ever regardless of what he said he was going to do, because that's what he's about what I'm going to do, but don't do it. He's a self person is the meat person. I just don't understand it and then keep in mind he was doing but he was talking hate. From the get go. I mean, even during his campaign, it was always separating people us versus them. He was all about hate In the beginning. So anybody who really supported Sanders, you know to vote for Trump. It makes absolutely zero sense. I don't think they were. Well, Democrats think they just wanted an excuse to say it. They were always gonna pull that way. Maybe so. Maybe so, because they're mad at Hillary. So they're gonna punish Hilary by making a vote of somebody Who is that awful that bad for the country? That terrible a person. It doesn't make sense and Bernie supporters..
Feast of Fun
Micheal Alago interview
"I, knew that I loved music that was hard and fast. So when I heard about all these records coming out on sire records like dead Gauloise and The ramones and talking heads and Richard Hell in the voids I thought to myself Oh, I got here this stuff and I wound up loving but yet coys and I would go to see every time they came in Cleveland Ohio and one night they were doing a three night stand when the British invasion of Khan came to New York with a group called the damned I went all three nights to that so I was just I was just creating my own way, my own path because I was curious and I was so curious it was out all the time
Fresh Air
In Jazz-Movie Endings, Some Story Elements Just Keep Bouncing Back
"One cable this month Turner classics is presenting a series of movies with jazz connections as it happens our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a new book about movies that tell jazz stories so we invited him to talk a little about the subject in the first of two segments he looks at what he calls the stock jazz movie ending a basic plot element subject to many variations here's Kevin over ninety some years of movies about jazz some plot points and story elements keep coming back we see young musicians had been meant toward by African American elders who work basement clubs and want to play the way they feel when the man just wants him to play the music is written it's the movies so there are romantic complications sometimes tied to divergent musical tastes such problems may be resolved in a version of the stock jazz movie ending a big New York concerts or parties at odds are reconciled it turns up by nineteen thirty seven in the romantic comedy champagne waltz Fred MacMurray plays a saxophonist who turns old Vienna onto jazz killing business at the waltz palace next door and wrecking Fred's romance with the waltz kings are pressing her granddaughter in the end they're all on stage in New York romantic and musical differences are resolved is gigantic jazz and classical orchestras mash on a swinging the classics mashup of tiger rag in the blue Danube it's kitchen music clear storytelling symbolizing the wedding to come in the nineteen thirty eight Irving Berlin song fast Alexander's ragtime band moving the reconciliation between bandleader and singer to Carnegie Hall the gold standard for classy venues in the movies that template came back with minor variations for decades in nineteen forty sevens the fabulous Dorsey's battling brother bandleaders Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey playing themselves patch up their feud just long enough to play a double concerto just as the real Dorsey's cooperated long enough to make the movie a couple of months later came the film in New Orleans with the most over the top New York concert ending which clears the way for an opera singer Merion jazz Booker at Symphony Hall the singer acquire three pianos the Philarmonic orchestra and woody Herman's big band all cram onstage to murder the film's instant hit song which we've already heard Billy holiday do rather better the New York concert capital turns up through the nineteen fifties a jazz movie tradition as in the Benny Goodman story or St Louis blues or WC handy's disapproving people finally accept as blues music once performed in concert alongside Mozart and Mendelssohn more variations came later in nineteen seventy twos lady sings the blues after an analyst U. S. tour Diana Ross as Billie Holiday is finally allowed to play New York again at Carnegie with violence the real holiday did play Carnegie Hall but without the fiddles in twenty sixteen Nina is always held on as Nina Simone who's been living in better French exile plays a free concert in Central Park and discovers her people still love her reconciling Nina Simone and America no reconciliation ending has grander implications
Unreserved
Electro-pop, power ballads and moccasin gaze: Meet this year's Indigenous Juno nominees
"Is square means woman in the CREE language. It's also the name chosen by alternative. Electronic Singer is square. The moniker is an abbreviation of her. Traditional name was he squandered a square which means blue sky woman is square has been a powerful and unapologetic voice for the indigenous experience in Canada. Ever since her self titled Album in Two Thousand and thirteen and her follow up. Juno nominated album the fight within four years later. Her third album at Chaco sick came out last month. It's been nominated for a Juno for adult alternative album of the year. Her Video Little Star has also been nominated for video of the year the cree and may T- artists grew up in Winnipeg and is based in Hamilton. She joins me from Toronto. Welcome sister at ten. Say from you so tell me about your new album. What were you thinking feeling about? Is You wrote these amazing songs. While thank you first of all and this one was a piece that I wanted to. I wanted it to be a story from start to finish so when I was putting all of the pieces together. I looked at this as a full narrative that was meant to share stories about culture and community and pride and art in addition to some of the struggles in some of the more challenging conversations. That are taking place within our community and society and so on to create this like element of of empathy. I suppose so that when the challenging conversations started to peel back when those layers started to come come down that that would exist so that we would be able to move forward through those conversations with a warmer spot in our hearts for each other. So much of your music as you said earlier you want to have these conversations whether they're difficult or challenging conversations with people and Much of a music is very political and I use that in air quotes because political means a lot of things to different people. What does it mean for you? It means to be a part of the change that I wanna see so it means that you know my experiences experiences of my loved ones. My family my community those people around me. I want to share those stories in a way that reaches people so that we can make changes. So why did you lend your voice in this way square when you could do very well by singing straight up pop songs staying out of it? Why do you get in it? You can't unsee what you've seen and that's really that's it. There's no other reason a rationale for me. I I feel this way. I see these things and it's it's now just a part of me. I didn't start off as a political artist. If you would write. I started off as just an artist. And and you know when you when I when I sit back and I listened to the ones that come before us Nina Simone. This is not a perfect quotes. Don't quote me on it verbatim. But along the lines of it's an artist's job to reflect the time and I really really value that sentiment and I think it's really important for us to use our our platforms our voices for those sorts of things. So it's less of a choosing more of something that just is a part of my soul now and it's more than just gesture music and and your lyrics it's also Your performance when he perform onstage. You transform you. Wear you put on the face paint and some elaborate costuming and you know you entered into this worldwide. Do that you know it's funny i. I'm learning more and more quite introverted. When I'm not on and then when I'm on whether it's you know on stage or public speaking any of those sorts of things it's I- i- tap into this different side of me and you know sometimes. I think I'm just a conduit to you know ensuring that somebody else's sharing these stories as well right and when it comes to how I perform it's something that just comes up from from the floor through my feet and then out my skull. I have no idea. They say it's the ancestors to believe that one hundred percent. Yeah when I any time I feel or have felt nervous or anxious about whatever it is that I was about to go do whether it was certain stage or a certain conversation or talk or something I if I can regroup and refocus my energy into you know talking to my ancestors my you know the ones up there that I speak to directly. I feel much stronger going into it and so yeah I definitely think they`re. They're with me all the time. I WANNA spend some time talking about your videos which earned gorgeous and powerful little stars I mentioned was just nominated for a juno for video of the year and I have to say that when I watched this video. I wept wept. It really really touched something inside I. What story does this song and video? This is a story of how the media was representing two of our indigenous youths during the trials of the nonindigenous men who were accused of their murders. At of course square. You are talking about the lives of Tina Fontaine in Colton Bushy. Yeah and at the time of these trials Certain media in particular were quite reckless with the way they were running headlines reporting on the cases and the stories and it really hurt. You know I and I don't mean that in any kind of simple way I mean that in the most If you could find the deepest Nook of your soul and stick something sharpen their. That's what it felt like and I didn't know what else to do other than to write. The song and the video really brings in that narrative and of course we'll post linked to that video on our website at CBC dot ca slash unreserved so squeaking of the Junos. How does it feel to be nominated again for your work? Feel so good. I was very excited. I was actually really surprised to be honest. Or you know I you know I don't know I think it was just one of those things. Where when you create a piece of art. It's hard to imagine that people are going to respond or something like it's it's such a vulnerable place to be that I tend to shy away from it and I'm just like okay here. You go and then I run and hide. That's kind of what happened. So what do you think it means though for for for particularly somebody who is indigenous and also political receive in recognition like this? Well Yeah it's I mean number one. It's a huge honour and I'm still. I'm still kind of digesting it right like it's been a huge uphill. Climb FOR ME. And it's a slow climb and so I I'm still kind of processing the sentiment of what it means to me what it means to what I'm doing and and almost like taking a step back and going. Oh there's people who are on board with me on this like they're a part of of the conversation and they're a part of the art and those two things are like. I can't rip those apart if I tried. And so people are starting to support that in ways that they hadn't before for me right so it's it's pretty powerful. Well thank you so much for your time today. Stay awesome sister. Thank you my friend. And congratulations thank you as square is a singer songwriter. Performer based in Hamilton.
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
This Woman's Work: Black Gold by Nina Simone
"Classic Kulgam. Sundays is a program of community listening events founded by Coline Cosmo Murphy were fans listened to essential albums uninterrupted. On state of the art sound systems systems. For this woman's work we're highlighting classic albums by female artists who have made a lasting impact on music and pop culture. This time the grammy nominated donated live album black gold by Nina Simone for us. It was recorded in front of a packed audience at Philharmonic recall in New York City on October. Twenty six thousand nine hundred sixty nine and released in nineteen seventy. The record captures the commanding poignant performance by Nina Nisa Mellon that night but we also hear her onstage banter between songs at times she seems Aloof and dignified. But then she's teasing lighthearted and the audience is clearly delighted lack gold displays Nina Simone's talents at interpreting Asong not to mention her range moving from soul and Gospel to show tunes and folk music through it. All her distinctive voice soars into moments of defiance and uplift is record represents not only an artist at the peak of for talents but an important figure in the civil rights movement in the US in this episode of this woman's work. Nina Simone's black gold.
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An 'inclusive and free art form composer Antonio Snchez lauds jazz, ahead of International Day
"I'm an Akhara move with you and us as jazz. Great, Nina Simone, one set Jez, not just music. It is a way of life. It is a way of being away of thinking written into the quest for human dignity, democracy and civil rights. The story of jazz is celebrated worldwide on thirty April with support of the UN cultural agency, UNESCO Mexican, jazz, composer and drummer. And Tony Sanchez the finest jazz, simply as freedom highlighting its inclusive power to bring different elements together transforming it into something greater the five time Grammy award winner who scored handwritten rita's Academy Award winning film Birdman is participating in the main commemorations for international jazz day held his year in Australia. Mr. Sanchez spoke to you n uses Antonio, LA Fuente. Well, I think jazz is very inclusive art form for some reason. It's nature. It's about bringing other elements and merging them on to the music. So in the beginning it came from, you know, completely glac music, and blues and soul. And then it's the improvisational part of started developing blood. It's a kind of music that can merge any kind of Jon Rao of music, and it turns out to be even greater and bigger than the individual parts. So when there's been many recessions history that have blended Jess with other kinds of world music, whereas it could be from to band music or. Brazilian music or African music or rock and roll. It doesn't matter to music that really can take any other kind of done. Right. And and and not only it can take it, but it benefits from it. And it develops more. And it it becomes richer as time goes by that what what is his sake. Jess to me that the finishing of Jess is freedom musician. It gives me the freedom of express myself exacly the way I'm feeling that day in that moment, which is is rare when you play political music, which I played classical piano for many years. You know, you're interpreting something and you have a certain amount of freedom. But it's it's usually you have to be a lot more strict with interpretation. Jazz. You can really change the course of the music in second just depending on how your you're feeling that they so you're I there's been times where I've been really sick very tired in pain where I have to perform and those dates are some of the best days sometimes because you can really channel your energy into the music that very moment. And sometimes what comes out is is something that you never thought you could do and also to meet death is freedom in the sense that it really can be ended is under the umbrella from privitization. But when I write for example, I I've not really paying attention to the fact that it has rock implants, or Jeff influence or Latin influence. Or anything? I just righted. I compose it, and it's all under the rela of Jess because it has the the vocabulary of improvisation and inclusion Anthony Europe anticipating home, the commemoration of internationally what those commemorations and what people can do to commemorate these. Well, the way it works is usually musicians from all over the world come together, and we play repertoire from all walks of Jess all John roster that are are inclusive in jest language, and we all perform with each other. So there's been times where I play with in a band where everybody's from a different country. But we're playing a very and like, for example. Last year two years ago, we played in Cuba, and we played a best mutual the very famous Latin standard, and it was a piano player from the Middle East or they route it was finger from Korea. And it was it was an American bass player and myself. So that kind of of of inclusion is what to me is the most interesting part about Jeff everybody learns language. Everybody knows it, and and we can all perform and and interact at the same time.
Colleen and Bradley
It's a Boy! John Stamos Welcomes Son Billy — and Names the Newborn After His Late Dad
"Just showed us a picture and the now you're pretending like that never happened and all the rest of us are like but what about your face i have my tinfoil hat on john stamos and his wife kaitlin mchugh have welcomed a son john stamos broke the news on his instagram and shared that his son's name is billy this is the first child for john stamos it is so cute the way that he revealed this on social media he basically was like i'm an i'm not just an uncle anymore it was just like it's john stamos is the daddy is like the sexiest thing that's ever happened this hold on the rocks video game movies i yeah we need steamy images to melt rocks video game movie rampage top the box office this weekend earning thirty four point five million dollars in its opening weekend a quiet place fell to second with thirty two point six million dollars in the movie truth or dare not the madonna documentary opened a third with nineteen point one billion dollars i mean i'm just saying i it shocks me that rampage kicked the quite a is it all quiet place a quiet place out of the out of the top slot not by much though only ten million dollars in rampage being as big budget as it is sure probably should have made more good point point although i will tell you i was watching the rock this weekend cook it jumanji cute we watched the movie it was kind of adorable bon jovi the moody blues the cards dire straits and nina simone among others were inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame on saturday and the induction also included six songs including louis louis the twist and born to be why which is kind of fun right i mean i i love the songs of course and also von jovi nobody else no way no love for the moody blues they will all like show up on the chart a little bit this week because of that update pepper dirt alert updates at the top of every hour plus get extended dirt alerts at eight twenty twelve twenty and five twenty six and now.
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Rock royalty ready for Hall
"Bon jovi the cars and four first time nominees including nina simone were inducted saturday night in the rock and roll hall of fame in cleveland dire straits the moody blues and sister rosetta therapy also earned the prestigious honor czech filmmaker milos forman whose american movies one flew over the cuckoo's nest and amadeus won a deluge of academy awards including best director oscars died saturday he was eighty six and nineteen seventy five cuckoo's nest captured every major oscar at that year's academy awards the first film to do so since nineteen thirty four's it happened one night i'm jim hawk npr news in washington support for this npr podcast and the following message come from trans union your credit health is so much more than a score that's why they help you stay on top of it protected and understand it get your report and more at trans union dot com slash npr.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2018 induction: Inside the ceremony
"Bit iraq seoul is pretty much something for just about everyone at this year's rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony returning to cleveland ohio in the rock and roll hall of fame featuring new inductees bon jovi nina simone the moody blues rockets are pioneer sister rosetta tharp and the cars the festivities taking place at cleveland's public hall which is open to the masses but rock and roll cheap average ticket prices are hovering at just over thirteen hundred bucks a pop.