Name: My Baby Just Cares For Me
Brand: Nina Simone

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Bertus Musikvertrieb

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Release date

2014-03-04

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NOT2CD529

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5060143495298

2012-03-29

NOT2LP156

5060143491566

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Nina Simone

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Not Now

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Classical

Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Born on February 21, 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, she began giving piano recitals at a young age after playing at her local church. Her talent impressed her mother's employer and a local fund set up by her music teacher, who funded her childhood piano lessons.

At the age of 17, Nina moved to Philadelphia where she taught piano and played to raise money for her studies at New York's renowned Juilliard School Of Music. To support her family financially, she worked in a bar in Atlantic City where she gained a devoted following through singing.

Nina's career took off when she recorded Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy," which became a US Top 40 hit. This success led to performances at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival. Throughout her career, Nina embraced numerous Civil Rights anthems and was a passionate supporter of the movement.

In the 1970s, Nina left the US and lived in various places including Barbados, Africa, the Netherlands before settling in France where she passed away from cancer in 2003. Known for drawing heavily on gospel blues soul jazz R&B folk music forms within her voice; it found wider popularity late in life when "My Baby Just Cares For Me" became an unlikely UK chart hit featured in a TV ad campaign.

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Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina but adopted her stage name, Nina Simone, in 1954, partly to hide her secular singing success from her Methodist minister mother. She took Nina from the Spanish for Little Girl and Simone from the French actress Simone Signoret. She recorded her landmark debut album 'Little Girl Blue' for Bethlehem Records in 1958. Despite including the Top 20 hit single 'I Loves You, Porgy' and her cool jazz standard 'My Baby Just Cares For Me', Simone never saw a dime in royalties, an estimated loss of over $1 million! This 7" features 'My Baby Just Cares For Me' with her jazzy version of Oscar Brown Jr's civil rights message 'Work Song', a fitting tribute to Simone's life-long campaigning for racial equality.

My Baby Just Cares For Me

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