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Nina Simone - Sinnerman - flashback remix
In 1957 she released her first album on Bethlehem Records in New York, and a concert in 1959 at New York City Town Hall made her famous in the USA and Europe. She was reverently called the "High Priestess of Soul" by her fans. In the 1960s, she was involved in the U.S. civil rights movement. With songs such as Mississippi Goddam and To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (lyrics by Weldon Irvine), she became one of the musical leaders of this movement.

In 1961, she married New York police officer Andrew "Andy" Stroud (1925–2012), who later became her manager and wrote some songs for her. In 1962, she gave birth to their daughter Lisa Celeste Stroud, who became known as a singer under the stage name Lisa Simone. The marriage was divorced in 1971.1964–1974: Civil rights period
In 1964, Simone changed record distribution from the American company Colpix to the Dutch Philips Records, which meant a change in the content of her recordings. She had always included songs related to her African-American heritage in her repertoire, such as Brown Baby by Oscar Brown and Zungo by Michael Olatunji on her 1962 album Nina at the Village Gate. On her debut album for Philips, Nina Simone in Concert (1964), she addressed racial inequality in the United States for the first time in the song Mississippi Goddam. This was in response to the assassination of Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963, and the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, in which four young black girls were killed and a fifth became partially blind. She said the song was "like throwing ten bullets back at her," and became one of many more protest songs Simone wrote. The song was released as a single and boycotted in some southern states.

She later recalled that Mississippi Goddam was her "first civil rights song" and that the song came to her "in an onslaught of anger, hatred, and determination." The song challenged the belief that race relations could change gradually, calling for immediate developments: "I and my people are due now." It was a key moment on their path to civil rights activism. [11] The song "Old Jim Crow" on the same album addresses the Jim Crow laws to reinforce racial segregation. After Mississippi Goddam, the message of civil rights became the norm in Simone's recordings and became part of her concerts. As her political activism increased, the pace of releasing her music slowed down.

Simone performed and spoke at civil rights gatherings such as the marches from Selma to Montgomery. Like Malcolm X, her neighbor in Mount Vernon, New York, she supported black nationalism and advocated violent revolution instead of Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent approach. She hoped that African Americans could form their own state with the help of armed struggle, although she wrote in her autobiography that she and her family considered all races to be equal.

1974–2003: Later life

Nina Simone at a concert in France in 1982
Simone recorded her last album for RCA Records, It Is Finished, in 1974 and did not record again until 1978, when she was persuaded by Creed Taylor, the owner of CTI Records, to go into the recording studio. The result was the album Baltimore, which was not a commercial success, but was quite well received by critics and heralded a quiet artistic renaissance in Simone's work. The selection of their material remained eclectic, ranging from sacred songs to Hall & Oates' Rich Girl. Four years later, Simone Fodder recorded on My Wings for a French label, Studio Davout.

Her private life was marked by crises. She fled her marriages, had an affair with the Prime Minister of Barbados (Errol Barrow), sought her destiny in Africa on the recommendation of Miriam Makeba, undertook European tours that alienated her from her political struggle in the USA, and was increasingly considered difficult in the record industry. Her album Baltimore (1978) was critically acclaimed, but initially sold poorly. In the 1980s, she performed regularly at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London (and also recorded an album there). Her autobiography I Put a Spell on You was released in 1992, her last regular album in 1993. In the same year, she moved to the south of France, where she lived for ten years and died in 2003 after a long battle with cancer.
Honors
In 2008, Rolling Stone listed Simone as number 29 of the 100 greatest singers of all timeIn December 2017, Simone was posthumously honored with induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In Heidelberg,Germany, too, a street was named after her in 2018 in the former US headquarters.
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Songtext
Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to?
Sinnerman where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All on that day
Well got to run to the rock
Please hide me, I run to the rock
Please hide me, run to the rock
Please hide here
All on that day