Chronology

1933  

February 21, Eunice Waymon is born in Tryon, North Carolina  

1950  

Juilliard School of Music  

1954  

Nina takes a job as singer-pianist in the Midtown Bar and Grill in Atlantic City  

1957  

December(?): first recording session with Bethlehem   

1958  

Marries with Don  Ross  

Little Girl Blue (Bethlehem)  

1959  

Get divorced with Don Ross  

And Her Friends (Bethlehem)  

The Amazing (Colpix)  

September 12, debut concert at Town Hall  

1960  

At Town Hall (Colpix)  

 September 9, at the Ed Sullivan Show (source: The Sullivan Years liner notes)  

1961  

December 4, marries with Andy Stroud  

At Newport (Colpix)  

Forbidden Fruit (Colpix)  

December 20, concerts in Lagos, Nigeria with Randy Weston, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and other artists and intellectuals under AMSAC sign  

1962  

Her husband becomes her manager  

At The Village Gate (Colpix)  

Sings Ellington (Colpix)  

September 12, Lisa Celeste Stroud is born  

1963  

May 12, Carnegie Hall  

June 11, Jackson, Mississippi, murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers (bio)  

September 15, Birmingham, Alabama, murder of four black school children (bio)  

Nina composes "Mississippi Goddam".  

First mixed-race concert at Miles College, Birmingham  

At Carnegie Hall (Colpix)  

Nina's Choice (Colpix)  

1964  

March 21, Carnegie Hall  

October 15, Martin Luther King received his Nobel Peace Prize  

Folksy Nina (Colpix)  

In Concert (Philips)  

Broadway-Blues-Ballads (Philips)  

1965  

Europe Tour (biography)  

Montreux Jazz Festival?  

Antibes Jazz Festival  

January 15, Concert at Carnegie Hall  

March, Selma-to-Montgomery march  

I Put A Spell On You (Philips)  

1966  

With Strings (Colpix)  

Pastel Blues (Philips)  

Let It All Out (Philips)  

Wild Is The Wind (Philips)  

Cosby tour  

1967  

February, finish of the Cosby tour  

Sings the Blues (RCA)  

Silk &Soul (RCA)  

High Priestess of Soul (Philips)  

1968  

April 4, Martin Luther King murdered in Memphis  

April 7, Westbury Music Fair 

Tour in Europe with Doris Duke (Penguin)  

June 16, Montreux festival  

(Nina's participations at the Montreux Festival, also here)  

1969  

A Very Rare Evening (PM)  

And Piano! (RCA)  

'Nuff Said (RCA)  

To Love Somebody (RCA)  

The Best Of (Philips)  

Festival d'Antibes-Juan Les Pins (with Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker)  

1970  

March, Concert in Newark, Ney Jersey  

14 December, Interview with Arthur Taylor for Notes and Tones  

Black Gold  

1971  

Divorce from husband/manager Andy Stroud  

Here Comes the Sun (RCA)  

Gifted & Black (RCA)  

The Best of (RCA)  

1972  

October, Concert at Kennedy Center, Washington  

Emergency Ward! (RCA)  

1974  

It Is Finished, last RCA album  

1975  

The Great Show Live in Paris  

1976  

Leaves Liberia  

July 3, Montreux festival

Earshot Jazz Festival in Paris (video Love Sorceress released in 1998)

1977  

Berkeley Concert  

Lamentations  

December: Concert at London's Drury Lane Theatre, meets Creed Taylor (CTI)  

1978  

January: Baltimore, Brussels  

September: interview with Britain's Blues & Soul magazine  

Arrested for withholding taxes in 1971-73  

1979  

Early in year leaves Israel  

1980  

July, 18: Rising Sun  

Cry Before I Go  

Paris, Pigalle, Le Trois Maillets  

Putsch in Liberia  

1981  

Summer: Concert in Southern France  

Anthony Sannucci  

1982  

January: Fodder On My Wings  

1983  

"Though I include jazz in what I do, I am not a jazz pianist at all." she told a New York Times interviewer in 1983 (After Hours)  

1984  

November, 17: Live at Ronnie Scott's  

1985  

Nina's Back (Singleton)  

1986  

Nina's Shameless Magic  

Concert at Boston, Symphony Hall ("Nina Simone's late, late onstage arrival at the 1986 program at Symphony Hall. While the audience patiently waited, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard played the equivalent of two long sets in an attempt to cover her absence. As performance indicated, she should have stayed at the hotel." Ernie Santosuosso, History of the Boston Globe's Jazz & Blues Festival.)

1987  

Let It Be Me  

Chanel No 5  

Live & Kickin (Videopix, Singleton)  

July 10, Montreux festival  

1988  

(?) Raymond Gonzalez  

1989  

The Iron Man, "Fast Food"  

(?) Nimwegen, Holland  

Concert in Milano, Italy  

1990  

(?) Amsterdam  

July 13, Montreux festival  

1991  

January, 21: Martin Luther King Birthday Parade  

Bouc-Bel- Air near Aix-en-Provence  

Autobiography: I Put a Spell on You  

1992  

Adelaide Festival  

1993  

A Single Woman  

Point of No Return  

1994  

August 20: A concert in Lörrach, Germany is cancelled (nervous breakdown)  

1995  

August, 25: Nina Simone given a suspended eight-month jail term  

1997  

June 28, Weimar, Germany (Kunstfest Weimar)  

July 2, Villingen, Germany (VS Swingt '97)  

July 4, Hamburg, Germany (Jazz Festival of Hamburg)  

July 15, Nice, France (Nice Jazz Festival)  

July 25, The Bourbon Street Music Club - Sao Paulo, Brazil  

July 27, "Praca de Paz" - Ibirapuera Park - Sao Paulo, Brazil  

December 14, Barbican Center, London, England  

December 18, Congress Hall, Warsaw, Poland  

1998

August 8, Baalbek, Lebanon Baalbeck International Festival 1988

August 21, Seattle, Washington, US Summer Nights at the Pier 1998

August 30, Newark, New Jersey, US, New Jersey Performing Arts Center - Prudential Hall

September 18, Thessalonica, Greece

October 28, Brighton, UK, The Center

November 20, Basel, Switzerland 

December 14, London, UK, The Royal Albert Hall

1999

March 7, Manchester, England

March 9, Liverpool, England

April 10, Brighton, England

July 1, London, England

July 24, Dublin, Ireland

July 27, Lucerne, Switzerland

August 13, La Grand Motte, France

2000

April 13, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Via Funchal

April 16, Sao Pauolo, Brazil, Bourbon Street Music Club

April 19, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ATL Hall / Metropolitan

May 26, Atlanta, GA (USA) Chastain Amphitheater

May 30, Washington DC (USA) DAR Constitution Hall

June 2, New York, NY (USA) Beacon Theatre

June 7, Boston, MA (USA) FleetBoston Pavilion

June 10, Philadelphia, PA (USA) Tower Theater

June 18, Chicago, IL (USA) Oriental Theater

June 22, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Wiltern Theater

June 26, Denver, CO (USA) Temple Buell Theater

August 9, Marciac, France Marciac Jazz Festival

October 30, Austin, TX (USA) Bass Auditorium

November 3, Ann Arbor, MI (USA) Hill Auditorium

November 8, Miami, FL (USA) Gusman Center

November 13, San Francisco, CA (USA) Davies Symphony Hall

November 19, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Wiltern Theater

2001

June 8, Paris, France, Palais des Congres

June 23, Washington DC (USA) Constitution Hall

June 28, New York City, NY (USA) Carnegie Hall (JVC Jazz Festival)

July 3, Portland, OR (USA) Arlene Schnitzer Hall

July 7, Saratoga, CA (USA) MountainWinery

July 11, Oakland, CA (USA) Paramount Theater

July 15, Los Angeles, CA (USA) GreekTheater

July 19, Chicago, IL (USA) Chicago Theater

July 23, Seattle, WA (USA) Benaroya Concert Hall

July 27, Detroit, MI (USA) Fox Theater

August 26, Clyst St Mary, Exeter (UK) Bishopstock Festival

Date Unknown - Lakeside Blues Festival  

Concert in Toscana, Italy  

Festa dell'Unità, Italy  

2003

April 21, Nina died in Carry-le-Rouet, France.