It was no that, when a seventeen-year-old in england formed a club devoted to simone's in 1965, he intentionally named it the nina simone appreciation society than the more common fan club … She is simply nina simone, a voice in the wilderness of modernity and industrialised society which cries out to be heard. Songwriters who write songs with a message, because they feel that survival is …

Simone was as equally invested in social activism as she was. Nina simone composed “mississippi goddam”--her biting song about racial injustice--in september 1963, immediately after four young girls in birmingham, alabama, died in a church bombing.