What Happened, Miss Simone?: The Nina Simone Diaries

An intimate and vivid look inside Nina Simones legendary life as a fiery singer, demanding mother, and tirelessly committed civil rights activist, told using previously buried material from the NetflixRadical Media documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? From music journalist and former Spin and Vibe editor-in-chief Alan Light comes a biography of incandescent soul icon and activist Nina Simone, drawn from a trove of rare archival materials, including Simones remarkable private diaries, published alongside Radical Medias much buzzed-about documentary of the same name, which debuted to great acclaim at Sundance in January 2015 and will premiere on Netflix this summer. What Happened, Miss Simone? explores the many facets of this complicated and gifted woman, excavating her lifelong passion for classical music and painful rejection from that field, along with her soaring success as a soul singer and the stresses put upon her as an African American pushing against the tide of racial discrimination in civil rights battles.