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Across The Margin / ATM Publishing presents Chapter Five of Arthur Hoyle’s The Jealous Muse — Nina Simone : The Melancholy Diva…

Chapter Five — Nina Simone : The Melancholy Diva

Nina Simone, famed black musician known for her distinctive musical style and her fiery presence on stage, was born in 1933 into a large family struggling to survive the Depression in Tryon, a small North Carolina town. Her mother, Kate, a deeply religious woman, served as an itinerant Methodist preacher and worked as a housekeeper for a white family. Her father, John Devan (J.D.), scrounged for work as a handyman and gardener after several business enterprises he had established in the town went under. Nina was the sixth of eight children, preceded by three brothers and two sisters, and followed by another sister and brother. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon, a name that she changed when she began her career as a professional musician.

The family was musical. J.D. played the harmonica and guitar, and had toured as an entertainer. Kate sang gospels as she cooked, planted her vegetable garden, and tended her children. There was a pedal organ in the home, and later a piano. One day when Eunice was three years old she sat down at the pedal organ and played from memory a tune her mother had been singing. Thus did her musical gift become apparent. Her mother regarded this gift as a divine blessing from God, and believed that it should be put in the service of her ministry.

When Eunice was four, Kate installed her as the organist performing at the start of her Sunday religious services as a way to attract worshippers, who were drawn to the church to see the child prodigy. Eunice also accompanied the choir and played at the Sunday school, a busy schedule for a four year old. Kate forbade Eunice to play any form of secular music because she believed that to do so would profane God’s gift. But when Kate was not at home, J.D. encouraged her to play the popular music that he

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So begins the amazing story of Nina Simone, who would become known as “The High Priestess of Soul” — an international talent who performed at concert halls and festivals around the world. Simone joined Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, gave a memorable (and historic) performance at Newport, toured France, Holland and Germany, moved to Barbados, then Liberia and did repeated sell-out shows at London’s Ronnie Scott and New York’s Carnegie Hall. In effect, she became one of the most noted musicians in the world.

Yet, this autobiography (first published in 1991) proves to be a disturbing account of a life that is both exhilarating and self-destructive. In effect, the same determination that drove Simone to become “America’s first black classical pianist” also ignited a bitterness and resentment that would eventually alienate her from family, friends and country. This autobiography was written in the Netherlands where Nina Simone died in 2003. Plagued by lawsuits, IRS seizures and mental instability, she died in what most of her admirers called “self-exile.”

Simone’s book does not acknowledge these conclusions, of course. Much of this memoir is evasive. Even though she describes some of the most incriminating episodes of her life, she never accepts responsibility for them. However, it is easy to read “between the lines.” Like all of us, she creates a version of her past that she can live with. Even when this marvelous woman flinches from the truth, prevaricates and rationalizes, she still emerges as one of the most perverse, exciting and fascinating talents of the 20th century.

As a lonely child in Tryon, Eunice Waymon imagined a life beyond her bleak surroundings by creating a new identity. She would be Nina, a name she was given by her first boyfriend. Linked with “Simone,” the name of a French actress that Eunice had seen in a movie, the little girl had a name befitting the “first black classical pianist” in America. Now, all she had to do was fulfill her destiny