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Watch The Trailer For This Year’s Action-Packed Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame...
Getty Image Just a couple of weeks ago, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame staged their annual induction ceremony, this year in Cleveland, Ohio, where they ushered in the likes of Bon Jovi, Nina Simone,...
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Lady Gaga Faithfully Covers Nina Simone’s ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’...
Getty Image In 2014, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett teamed up for Cheek To Cheek, an album of jazz standards that showed off a different, non-pop side of Gaga. Aside from the aforementioned two, there were...
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Noname Is Trying To Help Save Nina Simone’s Childhood Home
Getty Image Nina Simone was honored in 2016 with the Zoe Saldana-starring biopic Nina, and last year, when she was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Simone has had a broad and...
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Zoe Saldana Apologizes For Portraying Nina Simone: ‘I Should Have Never...
RLJ Entertainment In March of 2016, the first trailer for the Nina Simone biopic Nina was shared, and the film received immediate backlash due to the casting of Zoe Saldana (who identifies as...
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The Best Music Documentaries On Netflix Right Now
Getty Image Last Updated: August 6th For music fans, Netflix is a boon, hosting a wide range of different documentaries and concert films about a truly staggering array of different subjects from just...
View ArticleBrittany Howard Gave A Jazz-Infused Take On Nina Simone’s ‘Revoultion’ For...
Since the release of her acclaimed debut solo record, Jaime, last year, Brittany Howard has been a staple on late-night television. The singer recently shared performances of her music on The Late Late...
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John Legend Offers A Soulful Rendition Of Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’ For...
Getty Image Twelve long years ago, John Legend brought his talents to the nation’s capital, where he performed James Taylor’s “Shower the People,” alongside Taylor himself and Jennifer Nettles, for...
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Chloe Bailey’s Spicy Cover Of Nina Simone’s ‘Feeling Good’ Leaves Fans Divided
Getty Image Juneteenth honors the day the Emancipation Proclamation reached the state and thus marked all slaves as free. First celebrated in Texas, it’s expanded over the years. Indeed, this week...
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Ed Sheeran Took The Stand And Sang Nina Simone And Blackstreet Songs In Court
Getty Image Ed Sheeran is currently in the middle of a plagiarism court case, as songwriters Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue accuse Sheeran of using elements of their 2015 single “Oh Why” (which...
View Article10 stories you might have missed: Robert Pattinson to play Lawrence of Arabia
In this week’s installment of 10 stories you might have missed: Robert Pattinson signs on to play Lawrence of Arabia in Werner Herzog’s next film. Also: Zoe Saldana signs to play Nina Simone, Lucy...
View Article‘Peter Pan Live!’s’ ratings down 51% from ‘Sound of Music Live!’
“Peter Pan Live!”s” ratings down 51% from “Sound of Music Live!” About 9.1 million watched Allison Williams as Pan last night (down from 18.6 million for “Sound of Music”). Nevertheless, NBC...
View ArticleSundance 2015 lands Scientology, Kurt Cobain and campus rape documentary...
Kurt Cobain, Nina Simone and Tig Notaro are among the big names getting documentary treatment at this January's Sundance Film Festival. On Monday (December 8), Sundance announced 13 documentaries that...
View ArticleJohn Legend performed a stunning, sparse Nina Simone medley: Watch
PARK CITY, UTAH – The life and times of Nina Simone were exposed to their bare and brutal roots in new documentary “What Happened, Miss Simone?”, which premiered tonight (Jan. 22) at the 2015 Sundance...
View ArticleReview: ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’ only sings when Nina Simone sings
Liz Garbus' “What Happened, Miss Simone?” begins with footage of Nina Simone taking the stage at the 1976 Montreaux Jazz Festival. It was a performance that simultaneously represented a comeback from...
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These Female Artists Should Be In The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
Getty Image Earlier this week, Joan Jett of the Blackhearts told Billboard that “there should be more women in the Hall of Fame, and more women in rock.” Considering only “roughly 8.5 percent of the...
View ArticleWatch The Stirring Trailer For Netflix’s Nina Simone Documentary
“As fragile as she was strong. As vulnerable as she was dynamic. Most people are afraid to be as honest as she lived.” The Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? promises to be as complex and...
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These Music Legends Were Snubbed by the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame This Year
Getty Image This Saturday at 8 p.m. ET, HBO will air the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, which went down last month in Cleveland. Being inducted this year are Stevie Ray Vaughan,...
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Nina Simone Remembered: Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, Mayer Hawthorne, And...
As society continues to wrestle with racial and socio-political tensions, the release of two new Nina Simone-related projects — the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? and star-studded tribute...
View ArticleOutrage Watch: First look at Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone has fans crying...
Welcome to Outrage Watch, HitFix's semi-regular rundown of entertainment-related kerfuffles. Not feeling anxious enough already? Get your fix of righteous indignation below, and stay posted for...
View ArticleSomeone Mashed Up The ‘La La Land’ Soundtrack With Every Song You’ve Ever Loved
You could make the argument that La La Land was the best movie of 2016 (we did), and a big part of that has to do with the movie’s jazz-inspired soundtrack, which sold enough copies to peak at No. 2 on...
View ArticleFleet Foxes Sort Of Covered Kanye West By Playing The Nina Simone Song He...
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Bon Jovi Is In And Radiohead Is Out Of This Year’s Class Of Rock And Roll...
Getty Image This morning, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame unveiled their list of inductees for the 2017 class and it was a wild group. Heading up the lineup this year is Bon Jovi, which comes as no...
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