NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Nina Simone on 10 July 2019. Nina Simone has been played on NTS over 520 times, featured on 482 episodes and was first played on 23 September 2012.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon (21 February 1933 – 21 April 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, 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, rhythm and blues, gospel, and pop.

Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on 21st February…