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From the Publisher: Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in North Carolina at the tail-end of the Great Depression, Nina Simone was a precocious child with dreams of becoming the world's first black classical soloist. After a rejection from an elite New York conservatoire-a rejection she always believed stemmed from the color of her skin-she began performing jazz, blues, and classical songs in a bar to fund her music studies. In 1958 her rendition of the...
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