From: Vince Varga (haze_at_haze.hu)
Date: 2003-04-22 10:08:42
Jazz great Nina Simone dies at 70
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By Nekesa Mumbi Moody
April 21, 2003 | NEW YORK (AP) --
Nina Simone, the jazz great whose rapsy, forceful voice helped define
the civil rights movement, died Monday at her home in France, according
to her U.S. booking agent. She was 70.
Though she remained a top concert draw in her later years, she was quite
frail.
Eric Hanson, an agent with her U.S. booking agency Ted Kurland
Associates, confirmed the death to The Associated Press.
At a 2001 concert at Carnegie Hall, she had to be helped to the stage,
and was later seen sitting backstage in a wheelchair.
Simone spent much of her recent time in France.
She was survived by a daughter, Lisa, according to her personal manager,
Clifton Henderson.