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Across The Margin / ATM Publishing presents Chapter Five of Arthur Hoyle’s The Jealous Muse — Nina Simone : The Melancholy Diva…

Chapter Five — Nina Simone : The Melancholy Diva

Nina Simone, famed black musician known for her distinctive musical style and her fiery presence on stage, was born in 1933 into a large family struggling to survive the Depression in Tryon, a small North Carolina town.

The most poignant event in this autobiography is Simone's memory of her childhood sweetheart, a part-Indian boy named Edney Whitesides.

It benefitted from contributions by her first boyfriend Edney Whiteside, two brothers from her seven siblings, and most poignantly Nina's.

30) But shortly before she entered high school, Eunice befriended Edney Whiteside, a Cherokee Indian four years older than she, whose family had.

The classic autobiography of Nina Simone, the queen of music of her time and a civil rights fighter, not to mention her being also an amazing pianist.

In this up-close and personal portrait of vocalist and musician Nina Simone, the singer herself and a number of friends, relatives and connaisseurs tell.

Her mother, Kate, a deeply religious woman, served as an itinerant Methodist preacher and worked as a housekeeper for a white family. Her father, John Devan (J.D.), scrounged for work as a handyman and gardener after several business enterprises he had established in the town went under.

Nina was the sixth of eight children, preceded by three brothers and two sisters, and followed by another sister and brother. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon, a name that she changed when she began her career as a professional musician.

The family was musical.

J.D. played the harmonic