Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me
Great songwriter and performer was Nina and would play to all the collage campus's performing subtle civil rights type songs. Colour footage of her playing this song is quite rare.
Her most famous song I think is Young Gifted And Black and hit for Bob & Marcia in 1970. This came at a time when self esteem was low in the black community. It's sad she's no longer around to see a black president now in charge.
Simone advocated violent revolution during the civil rights period as opposed to Martin Luther King's non-violent approach, and hoped that the African Americans could, by so fighting, obtain a separate state.
Simone's fanbase and personal circle included many gay people. She was ambivalent about homosexuality: On the one hand her viewpoint was colored by a strict religious upbringing that opposed homosexuality; on the other hand, Simone was aware of widespread homosexuality within her fanbase and the entertainment industry.
Many of the people close to her were gay, including her younger brother, the writers Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin, and the founders of her European fanclub, David Nathan and Sylvia Hampton. The latter two stated in their biography of Simone that she had no problem with homosexuality as long as she did not have to hear about it explicitly
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