Nina Simone moves to Liberia
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BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The great African-American jazz singer Nina Simone moved to the Liberian capital Monrovia in September 1974. Simone was famous for her vocal support for the civil rights movement in the USA as well as for songs like I'm Feeling Good, Mississippi Goddam and I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free, and she was invited to the West African republic by her friend the singer Miriam Makeba.
Lucy Burns speaks to Nina Simone's friend James C Dennis Sr.
Picture: Nina Simone performs on stage at Newport Jazz Festival on July 4th 1968 in Newport, Rhode Island (David Redfern/Redferns)
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