Round Nina

Description

Album tribute where its iconic tracks are revisited by 10 artists from the new soul or pop generation. Eleven years after her passing, Nina Simone still fascinates. A major figure in 20th-century American music, her work is now universally celebrated everywhere. Voice of drama, ranked pianist, leading performer at the crossroads of the main African-American musical traditions, Nina Simone was both a dazzling talent and a tragic figure. Nina or the last diva of jazz. It's Sophie Hunger taking on the dark I Put a Spell on You or Gregory Porter revisiting the fragility of Black is the Color. It's Olivia Ruiz shaking up the hit My Baby Just Cares (for Me) or Melody Gardot claiming the iconic Four Women. It's Hindi Zahra performing Just Say I Love Him or Ben l'Oncle Soul taking on the classic Feeling Good. It's also Camille and the poignant Lilac Win, Lianne La Havas and the twisted funk of Baltimore, Youn Sun Nah and the tragic Plain Gold Ring or Keziah Jones and the vertigo of Sinnerman. This album, where intimacy and twilight, grace and wounds intertwine, is listened to like a hollow portrait of the musical legacy left by Nina Simone.