And it found a wider audience late in her life when 'My Baby Just Cares For Me' became an unlikely UK chart hit when it featured in a TV ad campaign. It was infused with gospel, blues, soul, jazz, R&B, and folk. Nina's voice drew heavily on other music forms. She left the US in the 1970s, moving first to Barbados, and some other places, including Africa and the Netherlands, before eventually settling in France where she died from cancer in 2003. Her repertoire went on to embrace numerous Civil Rights anthems, a movement for which she was a passionate and prominent supporter. She recorded Gershwin's 'I Loves You Porgy' which became a US Top 40 hit and transported her to a bigger stage, performing at Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival. To fund her family she worked in a bar in Atlantic City where she was also required to sing and built up a devoted following.

She moved to Philadelphia aged 17, teaching piano and playing to raise the money for her studies at New York's renowned Juilliard School Of Music. Her childhood piano lessons were funded by her mother's employer and a local fund set up by her music teacher, so impressed were they by her talent. Nina was giving piano recitals after playing at her local church at an early age. Born: 21 February 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA.ĭied: 21 April 2003 in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rh?ne, France (aged 70).

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