Nina Simone (1933 - 2003)
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To pay for tuition ay the Juillard School, she accepted a residency at the Midtown Bar and Grill in Atlantic City. She played 45 minutes an hour for six hours a night for $90 a week and, after the first night, the proprietor told her, "Tomorrow you sing or you're out of a job." In order that neither the Julliard School nor her parents knew of her moonlighting, she adopted the name, Nina Simone. |