High Priestess Of Soul

Nina Simone & Bob Dylan, The Hague, Netherlands, 1989 © Christina Svane.

Nina Simone (Nina Laughing), Photo by Herb Snitzer, 1959

© Mirrorpix

nina simone live at montreux, 1976.

'forever young gifted and black,' nina simone cd packaging, printed 2006.

Nina Simone, Miles Davis.

Found this delightful ad featuring Miss Nina Simone. I know she must have absolutely hated doing it, but I still love it!

Nina Simone performs live on stage at Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, United States on 4th July 1968. Photographed by David Redfern.

Bernard Gotfryd (photograph), Nina Simone and James Baldwin, (gelatin silver print), 1965 [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. © Bernard Gotfryd]

Bernard Gotfryd (photograph), Nina Simone and James Baldwin, (gelatin silver print), 1965 [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. © Bernard Gotfryd]

Bernard Gotfryd (photograph), Nina Simone and James Baldwin, (gelatin silver print), 1965 [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. © Bernard Gotfryd]

Singing in small group with Lorraine Hansberry and Nina Simone, 1963 [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Music Division, The New York Public Library, New York, NY]

Russell Young, Nina Simone, (hand-pulled acrylic, enamel screen print and diamond dust on linen), 2017 [The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. © Russell Young]

Nina Simone with Babatunde Olatunji arriving at the Lagos Airport from New York, December 14, 1961, for the AMSAC Arts Festival on December 18 and 19, 1961 [Langston Hughes papers, Series XII: Photographs, 1862-1967, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]

Nina Simone, Broadway-Blues-Ballads, [’The One and Only Nina Simone’, by Langston Hughes], (draft, typescript carbon and proof, corrected), 1964 [Langston Hughes papers, Series V: General Writings, 1922-1967, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT]

Operation: Get Down Presents A New Spiritual Experience, Starring High Priestess of Soul Nina Simone, with Myrna Summers & The Interdenominational Singers, and Black Poetess Nik[k]i Giovanni, Masonic Temple, Detroit, October 24, 1971. Poster Design: Globe Poster Company