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Can I read Princess Noire. ; The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone on EtoBox?
Princess Noire. ; The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone by Nadine Cohodas is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Princess Noire. ; The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone about?
From the author of the acclaimed Dinah Washington biography __Queen__ comes this complete account of the triumphs and difficulties of the brilliant and high-tempered Nina Simone. Her distinctive voice and music occupy a singular place in the canon of American song. Tapping into newly unearthed material—including stories of family and career—Nadine Cohodas gives us a luminous portrait of the singer who was born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933, one of eight children in a proud black family. We see her as a prodigiously talented child who is trained in classical piano through the charitable auspices of a local white woman. We witness her devastating disappointment when she is rejected by the Curtis Institute of Music—a dream deferred that would forever shape her self-image as well as her music. Yet by 1959—now calling herself Nina Simone—she had sung New York City’s venerable Town Hall and was on her way. As we watch Simone’s exciting rise to stardom, Cohodas expertly weaves in the central factors of her life and career: her unique and provocative relationship with her audiences (she would “shush” them angrily; as a classically trained musician, she didn’t believe
Who reads Princess Noire. ; The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nadine Cohodas
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781469602240
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Music, Biography, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.51 / 5 (192 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13