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The Guardian Weekend, 6 December 1997 
Dangerous diva Dr Nina Simone is not a woman to mess with. Her anger was born out of the racial brutality of her childhood in the Deep South. Her first love was Bach and classical piano, but she was forced into jazz and soul. Forty years on, her music is as potent a political weapon as ever. 

The Daily Telegraph London, 14 December 1998
"THIS is going to be the most difficult interview of your life," a harassed-looking radio journalist hissed at me as I approached Nina Simone. "The most difficult by far." It was, I confess, an alarming moment. Miss Simone, who performs at the Albert Hall tonight, has earned and maintained huge popularity as a singer and pianist over four decades, but she has a daunting reputation.

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