After a long hiatus from the recording studio, this incomparable jazz legend returns in triumph with a 1993 release. The title track captures her for the first time in front of a live orchestra, with a richer sound than we've heard before... then from the soundtrack to the film Yentl, Papa, Can You Hear Me? is an impassioned cry to a departed loved one... she breathes new life into an old chestnut, in The More I See You... Lonesome Cities has an endearingly wry spirit... and only a woman who's lived her extraordinary life could bring new meaning to a song long associated with Sinatra -- Love's Been Good To Me. We welcome back one of our all-time favorites!

A Single Woman is an album from 1993 by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was her last album.

Information about songs on this album

* "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" is dedicated to a Errol Barrow, the former Prime Minister of Barbados with whom Nina had an affair.Simone, Nina; Cleary, Stephen. I Put A Spell On You, 1992 (Da Capo Press), ISBN 978-0-306-81327-6

* "Papa, Can You Hear Me?", a song most well-known for the Barbra Streisand version.

About the Cover

* The dress Nina is wearing on the cover is designed by Christian Dior.

* The picture of Nina inside the jewel case booklet was used for many of her obituaries when she died in 2003, age 70. It shows Nina in wearing a golden turban, sitting on a chair and with the pink-red Dior-dress spread out around her.

References

Category:1993 albums

Category:Nina Simone albums

Category:Elektra Records albums

fr:A Single Woman

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Artist/Band Information

Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.

Born the sixth child of a preacher's family in North Carolina, Nina's prodigious musical talent encouraged her ambition to become the first black concert pianist, but the realities of poverty and racial prejudice forced her to reconsider. Simone

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