Verve Records has announced a slate of archival and new music releases and events to celebrate the iconic jazz label's 70th ...

I hear Raye before I see her. I’m sitting in a makeshift greenroom at Bloomingdale’s in New York City, where the big-voiced ...

Every so often, a song arrives that doesn’t just top the charts but fundamentally alters the trajectory of music. These ...

Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the bestselling live albums of all time, is turning 50. You won’t find that on this list, however: instead there’s metal, soul, and an ‘indecently ...

The five nominees for the 2026 EE Rising Star Award were revealed during a press conference at The Savoy Hotel in London.

North Carolina home preserved to commemorate legendary musician and civil rights activist, and to serve as arts hub It was a surreal experience for Dr Samuel Waymon, Nina Simone’s youngest sibling, to ...

Nina Simone’s childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina has been restored. As of late 2025, the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced it completed restorations of the house, helping ...

In 2016, the childhood home of High Priestess of Soul Nina Simone was under threat of demolition. After a decade of collective efforts from artists, architects, and even celebrities such as Venus ...

Cynthia Erivo took over the New York City’s streets to open the 99th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with a rendition of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good.” “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life ...

The house is located in Tryon, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund A dilapidated three-room house in North Carolina, where a ...

The childhood home will feature historically accurate furnishings and more reflecting Simone's time in the house. The childhood home of Nina Simone has been restored into a historic landmark of the ...

From her birth in 1933, to 1937, Eunice Kathleen Waymon, the musician and civil rights activist known to the world as Nina Simone, lived in a three-room, 650-square-foot house in Tryon, North Carolina ...