Nina Simone said we have the duty to reflect the times in which we live.

妮娜·西蒙妮说过，我们有责任反映我们所生活的时代。

Nina Simone wrote and performed the song you just heard. It is called Young, Gifted and Black.

妮娜·西蒙创作并演唱了刚才的这首歌曲。歌曲名为《年轻，有天赋，黑人》。

But she could not hide her career for very long. In nineteen fifty-eight, Nina Simone recorded her first album.

但是她不能长时间地隐藏自己的职业。1958年，妮娜·西蒙录制了她的首张专辑。

In a book about her life, Nina Simone wrote that everything that happened to her as a child involved music.

妮娜·西蒙在一本关于她生活的书中写道，她小时候发生的一切都与音乐有关。

Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in nineteen thirty-three in the southern town of Tryon, North Carolina.

妮娜·西蒙1933年出生在美国北卡罗来纳州南部城市特赖恩，原名尤尼斯·凯瑟琳·瓦西姆。

Nina Simone wrote that her whole world changed in that moment. She said nothing was easy anymore.

妮娜·西蒙写道，那一刻她的整个世界变了。她表示一切都不再轻松了。

Just last year, as I said earlier, Lauryn Hill recorded six songs made famous by Nina Simone, another utterly original artist.

就在去年，正如我之前说的，劳琳·希尔录制了六首由尼娜·西蒙尼创作的著名歌曲，尼娜·西蒙尼是另一位完全原创的艺术家。

Nina Simone often said she hated to be linked with any one kind of music or message.

妮娜·西蒙经常表示，她讨厌与任何一种音乐和信息连接起来。

Nina Simone wrote that she grew to love her first piano teacher, a white woman from England.

妮娜·西蒙写道，她逐渐喜欢上了她的第一位钢琴老师，一位来自英格兰的白人女性。

In considering Nikole, my mind drifts to images of James Baldwin and Nina Simone smoking and smiling in an overly bright den.

想到妮可，我的脑海里就浮现出詹姆斯·鲍德温(James Baldwin)和妮娜·西蒙(Nina Simone)在一个过于明亮的书房里抽烟、微笑的画面。

Nina Simone was very young when her musical ability first appeared. She could play songs on the piano when she was three years old.

妮娜·西蒙在很小的时候就显现出了她的音乐才能。三岁的时候，她就能在钢琴上弹奏曲子。

She wrote that racism became real for her like the turning on of a light. Nina Simone continued to stand up and speak out.

她写道，种族主义对她来说变得无比真实，就像一盏灯点亮了一样。妮娜·西蒙继续站起来发声。

Miss Simone was married two times. She had a daughter, Lisa, who is also a singer. Nina Simone left the United States in nineteen seventy-three.

西蒙女士结过两次婚。她有一个女儿，丽萨，她也是一个歌手。妮娜·西蒙于1973年离开了美国。

I have six Nina Simone vinyl records and I'll just bounce in between.

我有六张 Nina Simone 黑胶唱片，我会在两者之间跳来跳去。

He listens to Nina Simone and Otis Redding, likes expensive whiskey.

他听 Nina Simone 和 Otis Redding 的音乐， 喜欢昂贵的威士忌。

Eunice had never sung in public before. Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday. She got the job.

尤尼斯之前从未在公共场所演唱过。妮娜·西蒙后来告诉一个记者，她当时就是试着模仿著名歌手比利·哈乐黛唱歌。她得到了这份工作。