Nina Simone: Blue Skies

[@mariemorris7031]

I am so glad I accidentally found this on U TUBE Thank you soooo much!!!!!

[@xdinoify]

beautiful song, and i love your makeup here nina. i miss you. i love you.

[@sheilabarron5532]

Love how the gold dress dances on Her skin and the Band Fantastic🙏💙❤✌

[@mud6866]

Thanks for another one, Nina. You always show up when I really need you.

[@michaelrequenez4565]

Ole Blue eyes, Nina, and even Brent, make this song a TRUE classic...2020 and beyond...!!!!!!

[@andypeaston9473]

Great guitar playing. Outstanding.

[@NedHamson]

What a treasure and interpretation of a classic by the classic soul and jazz singer

[@Joemnc]

That is talent God given talent. Love it

[@welfaredad]

Its like jazz, rock, swing, blues and funk. I was waiting for her to buss a rhyme:-D

[@butifarra61]

1990....wow,,,thanks. live music...

[@RichardDoker-op6py]

Bravo. So much craft

[@mariemorris7031]

I lost it than found it again....I think I "like" Jazz now didn't know until now!!!

[@user-ou8pe9it8j]

Love it .

[@jakep57]

NINA-GREAT PIANO-SINGS LIKE A ROBOT IN THIS NUMBER.

[@Asymmatrix]

Beautiful

[@Monica-jq4gy]

amazing!!!

[@jaspermartin7444]

I've never seen this video, thank you so much for uploading!! 🎶 🌟 💖💖💖 🌟 🎶

[@Asymmatrix]

Great love it.

[@lindaharrison4201]

Sorry that didn t come out right ms.simone was a wonderful artist

[@exxtra71]

Awesome...

[@lindaharrison4201]

She was a wonderful entertainer a bill yet I just

[@amadeudias1402]

i LIKE.

[@pilarbuil6463]

i love you

[@tedmanu]

The Lexus Commercial brought me here!!!

[@shurupek]

жжет Nina!!!!

[@Norvo82]

Obviously not the greatest interpretation of the Irving Berlin standard, but understandable. The documentary What Happened Ms. Simone? revealed Nina had been taking rather strong antipsychotic medication for several years by 1990 which ultimately affected both her piano playing and (singing) voice.

[@nocount1]

I still would have loved to have been at that performance.

[@creativemindplay]

+jef willemsen "great" is extremely subjective innit? i can think of much more accurate adjectives.

[@mario7frankielee]

someone even said: she smoked🙈😱 holy shit !!! she smoked what terrible mistake and have you noticed she doesn’t wears a helmet

[@deniellebasselstv]

Obviously she doesn't give a crap about this song. Nina sung songs with a meaning. She doesn't seem to be in the mood for this message. Probably some annoying request by a wealthy fan.

[@SalveRegina8]

Denielle Bassels wow I think you may be right?

[@karlakay]

It's a " One World" Celebrity fund raiser concert.

[@mud6866]

Idiot

[@mario7frankielee]

some say she sounds bored some say she’s drugged some say this some say that same people say bod dylan can’t sing i say she’s angry with good reasons

[@thepinkdiamonds8370]

Off key?

[@elan191173]

She's all like "Let me shout out this stupid song so I can get the hell out of here and get me some champagne and cocaine!"

[@bonjurke]

ha! i think she was definitely having an off day cuz she is amazing usually. that is a bare mic as well, that never helps nobody!

[@scottsheff]

Hahaha

[@AAwildeone]

+Scott Sheffield She's an amazing artist and performer, and at that point she'd already done an immeasurable service to music in general....to point out a great artist's supposed vices does little for your opinions or criticisms..."champage and/or cocaine'? what do you know about it?

[@elan191173]

She absolutely was a brilliant artist, and I admire her very much. It just tickled me that the way she is almost angrily pounding and shouting out this song stands in comical contrast to its contents. As for the unfortunate champagne/cocaine comment - that was a reference to a documentary I saw about her where someone who had worked with her told a story about asking her, in her dressing room, if there was anything she needed. She replied, "I want some champagne, some cocaine, and some sausages!" I thought that was such a hilariously specific request that it stuck in my head.

[@mud6866]

@@elan191173 she has always pounded the piano with passion..

[@rocky57]

I like Nina but she murders this song for me

[@ttrons2]

She always worked mostly with white accompanists.

[@maxboesenegger]

she seems kinda bored.. but great performance of the band

[@franciselliott6223]

She was mostly passionate about classical music. Standards were never get favorites

[@Castorp-wn7dh]

I prefer Ella Fitzgerald's version.

[@petrapacaric]

Yea good Nina sounds bored here. She's such a great artist but I wonder what she was thinking...

[@vangovroomhonk]

This was during a period where she was extremely medicated for depression as well as bipolar disorder with mania. She had suffered from multiple record labels taking advantage of her and then literally tossing her in the street (she was homeless for many years after her initial rise to fame) so the Nina you're seeing here is a Nina that was destroyed and then put back together. Sometimes when that happens we lose bits of who we are

[@petrapacaric]

Thanks for your reply. Heartbreaking. I didn’t know - must have been tough for her to be onstage in that state. She was a jewel of an artist.

[@foreveryoung6498]

no!

[@insightsmagazine5272]

Man what happened? The band is working hard to keep things together but this interpretation is weird, she is out of sync, false notes, she seems drugged.

[@CRex]

She'd been taking a lot of antipsychotic medicine by this stage and it affected her singing voice and piano playing. I also think she smoked too so that obviously affected her voice somewhat.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

TERRIBLE rendition of this song. No emotion, too fast, completely bland. Is this how she sings all of her songs? Terrible!!

[@karlakay]

Not how she sings all her songs, at all. Agree this one is terrible. My favorite is I want a Little Sugar in my bowl. And of course her rendition of Its a New Day ( or world).... I'm Feeling Good! Best song - played every morning at the Space station.

[@7531monkey]

You are a lost lost soul, kid. One day you my grow up to appreciate music.

[@CarlyWaarly]

How to crucify a beautiful song without emotion and spirit in which it was written, sounds awful! An example of someone tired of their profession!

[@damusicbag]

+CSMedia I get what you're saying, but Nina was taking a lot of powerful medication during this period which greatly affected her singing and playing skills - just look at her performances from the early 80s (when she first started taking the medication) and compare them to this performance.

[@CarlyWaarly]

No worries, she was a class singer!

[@damusicbag]

I agree!

[@Juanchooo121]

Obviously you don't know Nina Simone. Just watch her live version of Someone To Watch Over Me in Montreux and cry like a baby. That's a reference, clearly not this song.

[@CarlyWaarly]

No worries Juan, appreciate that Nina has had better days! :D