What Happened, Miss Simone?
A Biography
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Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary,
What Happened, Miss Simone?
is
an intimate and vivid portrait of the twentieth-century icon Nina Simone.
Her willingness to speak her mind shines out of every page
Arrestive telling of the high priestess of soul's life story...What makes this portrait so compelling are the extras; think of the book as a director's cut
She is loved or feared, adored or disliked, but few who have met her music or glimpsed her soul react with moderation
Explores the huge impact [Nina Simone] made for civil rights through her music, as well as her activism
Traces a path through the sad and bewildering tangle that was Simone's life
Nina Simone was an overwhelming artist, piano player, and singer - the kind of artist that I loved and admired
Electrifying . . . Captures how unique and real she was on every page
Absorbing
A gripping (if often grim) portrait of a woman and her legend
Decent, respectful, conscientiously crafted and even-handed
A veteran music journalist,
Alan Light
is the author of
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
and
Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain
. Light was previously the editor-in-chief of
Vibe
and
Spin
and a senior writer for
Rolling Stone
. He is also a frequent contributor to the
New York Times
.