Nina Simone R.I.P.
So today I heard the news that Nina Simone passed away in her sleep yesterday at her home in France. I thought of a story I read about the New York poet Frank O’Hara, how when he was told that Billie Holiday was gone, replied “I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to!” For some reason, I thought it was at least heartening that I first got the news over the radio. Terri Gross closed her show this evening with Nina Simone’s beautiful recording of Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” which I hadn’t heard before and which brought tears to my eyes in the car. I usually feel awkward about mourning for celebrities that I never knew personally, but in this case I’m making an exception: I am saddened by her death, yet comforted that it sounds to have been blessedly peaceful, which I think is only just. God Bless.
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