That is also to say nothing of Simone as an artist, who wrote “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” and skillfully reinterpreted songs by George Gershwin, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and Bob Dylan to reflect her own truth. Garbus isn’t the first to do so, by any means: Simone wrote an 1991 autobiography, I Put a Spell on You, while several biopics have long been in the works (the first, titled Nina and starring Zoe Saldana as the singer, is scheduled to be released later this year). this is my last jazz concert and I’m graduating to a higher plane.” Garbus’ latest documentary, a Netflix original titled What Happened, Miss Simone?, is her attempt to understand what the iconic singer and civil rights activist meant by that declaration. Filmmaker Liz Garbus was in the audience when Nina Simone performed at the 1976 Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, her first words to the audience being, “You don’t understand me, you don’t know what I mean when I say I’m tired.
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