Nina Simone,RIP

[chris olivarez]

Nina Simone died at her home in France on Monday at the age of 70.I'll never forget that line in the Bridget Fonda move where she was being held a prisoner and was demanding some good music to listen to-some Nina Simone.

[Christiern]

Singer Nina Simone dead at 70

• 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, her manager Clifton Henderson said. She was 70.
  
  Simone, who was born in North Carolina, was best known for her interpretation of "My Baby Just Cares for Me" in 1966 and "One Night Stand" a year later. She also recorded the socially conscious songs "Mississippi Goddamn" and "Old Jim Crow."
  
  Henderson said she died of "natural causes."
  
  Though she remained a top concert draw in her later years, she was quite frail.
  
  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 is survived by a daughter, Lisa, according to Henderson