What Happened, Miss Simone? (eBook)

A Biography

Alan Light (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
354 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78211-873-2 (ISBN)

Infos

'From her raging, handwritten letters to late-night phone calls with David Bowie, this biography gets up close and personal with the tempestuous Nina Simone' Observer Drawing on glimpses into previously unseen diaries, rare interviews and childhood journals, and with the aid of her daughter, What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of the classically trained pianist who became a soul legend, a committed civil rights activist and one of the most influential, provocative and least understood artists of our time. This is the story of the real Miss Simone.

Autor

A veteran music journalist, Alan Light is the author of The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" and Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain. Light was previously the editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin and a senior writer for Rolling Stone. He is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times.

Rezensionen

She is loved or feared, adored or disliked, but few who have met her music or glimpsed her soul react with moderation

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2016
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: 50s • 60s • Aretha Franklin • Billie Holiday • Black Power • dinah washington • Dream Girls • Ella Fitzgerald • etta james • I Put a Spell on You • Janis Joplin • Martin Luther King • music icon • Nat King Cole • Ottis Redding • Patti Smith • Rhythm and Blues • RnB • Soul • wild is the wind
• ISBN-10: 1-78211-873-X / 178211873X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-873-2 / 9781782118732