Simone, Nina
Entry updated 27 January 2025. Tagged: Music, People.
Working name of US singer, pianist, composer and civil rights activist Eunice Kathleen Waymon (1933-2003), widely celebrated as a writer and performer in jazz and R&B. Her one excursion into sf, "22nd Century", was recorded in 1971 but only made available in the box set The Complete RCA Album Collection (2011). It is a remarkable, near ten-minute, stream-of-consciousness depiction of a Near Future after a bloody revolution in 1988 and plague in 1990 (see Pandemic). The opening lines sum up the song’s bleakness: "There is no oxygen in the air/Men and women have lost their hair/Ashen faces, legs that stand/Ghost and goblins walk in this land." [CWa]
see also: Inland Empire.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
born Tryon, North Carolina: 21 February 1933
died Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône, France: 21 April 2003
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