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The Life and Tragic Ending of Nina Simone

Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina, US. She was the sixth of the eight children in her family. She managed to survive very narrowly, owing to extreme poverty. She started playing the piano at the age of four, and by the time she reached her teenage years, she had made up her mind to make a career in music.