Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) (Live at Montreux, 1976)

Watch Nina Simone perform “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1976
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Music video by Nina Simone performing I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) (Live). © 2006 Montreux Sounds, S.A., under exclusive license to Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd.
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[@NinaSimoneMusic]

What is your favorite live performance from the High Priestess of Soul?

[@nightdruid540]

*Stars... they come and go*

[@bellamckinnon8655]

Smart Monkey oh that was a beautiful rendition of Ian’s song - really really fitting

[@Missjunebugfreak]

Mississippi Goddamn

[@thandolwethuntombela8691]

I loves you Porgy will always take the cake

[@andrewemitt68]

Can we please get the 1968 Montreux version of "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free"???

[@regand7830]

She makes it look effortless, playing those keys...damn what a talent.

[@sb_dunk]

And singing at the same time too, just incredible.

[@DumbBaby]

I think of Hendrix voice, Ninas piano, MCcartneys bass and Jeff Buckleys guitar skills as all massively underrated because of their other skills.

[@erickt1974]

@@DumbBaby ok but to be fair pauls probably one of our best memory writers ever so it makes sense for him

[@twoscoopsmanny1566]

...and when you get towards 01:00..., just listen to the next chord... and that long pauseeeeee! Ohhhhhh u beauty! I need not say anymore...

[@sophelet]

She was trained as a pianist at Juilliard, too.

[@evrydae]

I could listen to this for the rest of my life.

[@barbarahofmann1473]

Me too! :-)

[@mistyday1236]

Me too

[@orentedatoru928]

I could listen to it even in death!!!!

[@WomanOfGod79]

Yessss!❤

[@helenkeefe5391]

@@mistyday1236 Me three

[@dbsirius]

She's singing as though she's gazing out the window and hoping.

[@edwinrivera1123]

She's the best that's ever done it

[@pissonthefloo]

exactly. hoping for something more.

[@josegabrielsilva5221]

They way you put it is so beautiful and poetic

[@BLCKSQR]

there's no hope in her message. just pure freedom

[@kta0702]

She is the embodiment of cathartic release. The release of all emotion to purge out every pent up aggression, sadness, joy etc. This woman is timeless

[@teamcrumb]

the energy she puts into expressing black collective pain and her own pain with THE most crystal clear strength and beauty and talent is almost a form of kindness so many of us don't deserve. i wish in some ways she never had to burn so brightly in all that fear and darkness. love you forever, Simone

[@sretenvujkovic9980]

S

[@rorymarcel228]

@@fareshajjar1208 she literally talked about her experience as a black person and for you to say being black was an asset while she got death threats and ridiculed till her dying day because of her day features is mine bending. Her simple expressing that black people should me treated like human almost ruin her career and her didn’t get her money until her last decade. If you don’t know anything please-do everyone a favor and hush .

[@paperbagman1248]

@@fareshajjar1208 Lol what? So let me get this straight your position is that you believe a poor black kid born in North Carolina during Jim Crow/segregation had more opportunities than the white kids in her town?? Do I need to explain why that's wrong? Also if your primary point is that the local piano teacher was kind enough to take Nina in as a student free of charge shows why Nina was given an opportunity most other kids would not have got, then I agree. But if you're using this one argument to show how Nina somehow had more opportunities than white kids (again during Jim Crow) then you are being completely disingenuous because you are not bringing up all the opportunities the white kids had that Nina did not. Also if you are using the argument to show why Nina's blackness gave her a "HUGE" advantage then you are again wrong. The teacher didn't take Nina in because she was black, she took her in because she was talented. Also no pain from being black??? The reason Nina is performing at montruex (which is in Switzerland) in this video is because she was essentially black listed from radio in the US after releasing "Mississippi Goddamn." in an attempt to essentially ruin her career/silence her. Keep in mind that radio was the heart of the music industry in the 60s/70s. This, along with the treatment of the civil rights protests, made Nina decide to leave the US and move to Africa. If you still don't believe me that a part of Ninas pain derived from racism then listen to "Backlash Blues" from this exact same concert.

[@mel7ist]

Her pain translates into beauty

[@AA-pe9yy]

❤️

[@CathyKitson]

"Everybody should be free...because if we ain't, we're murderous". Quite!

[@janinge8696]

ok, I thought she said "we murder us". You're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong

[@CathyKitson]

@@janinge8696 haha. But that doesn't really make sense - it's ungrammatical, and why would we want to kill ourselves? You could be right, but I think "murderous" makes more sense. ;)

[@riahoodlum5698]

@@CathyKitson i take it both ways and anyways grammar is a fools idea. In these hoods we're forced into, children do take eachothers lives.

[@CathyKitson]

@@riahoodlum5698 That's true. It could be either.

[@yuvals3796]

@@CathyKitson it is make sense we murder are self inside the soul.

[@yomommastupid]

she was more appreciated outside the USA...even lived in The Netherlands and France where locals became her friends and embraced her till her death...what a QUEEN

[@capoeirastronaut]

Same with the blues legends. Racist USA, civil rights era..

[@christophe3832]

In Switzerland too

[@johnboys4697]

Because she was an angry woman They didn’t like her in the United States

[@edwardquaye8312]

@@johnboys4697 You mean because she was a BLACK WOMAN! BLACK women are not angry 😤

[@someonesomeone7423]

@@edwardquaye8312 so you’re saying black women can’t be angry

[@rickypt07]

It’s because of videos like this that I’m grateful for KZbin otherwise I probably would never see this. 🤩☺️

[@valentingregordieunifyingv5206]

You're absolutely nailing it!

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

Yesss it's amazing

[@musiclover-cn7tb]

I know the artist's estates should release wonderful gems for fans to purchase on video.

[@Hobbyblasphemist]

Internet is probably the greatest tool invented by humanity, easy to forget its immense value when you hear about the ways it’s used for harm. We must remember the good times had.

[@innodeus6694]

The message in this songs is a timeless masterpiece. It still resonates strongly in april 2021.

[@donttryimprotected3246]

Here in April 2021 as well🥰

[@voidhog1028]

her message gets more powerful with time. she deserved so much more in her lifetime. the world is a cruel place, built on disturbing power structures that refuse credit to some of the most amazing, gifted and genuinely kind individuals that have existed.

[@tonywilliams1532]

Stopped by December 2021 - I agree Inno

[@voixslupin6240]

Xmas 2021, resonating more and more...

[@kennyj43]

July 2023, as well, and, I fear, in 2033 and beyond, too, if we don't wake up.

[@gameoftomes14]

2024 and I’m glad there’s almost 3 million views for this epic performance.

[@kstribley1]

Shivers down the spin and tears to the eye. An incredible, life-changing performance.

[@JovaCozzo]

I watched it yesterday first time, Im blown away can't stop listening to this live

[@crystalbuchanan2356]

For me..it truly was last year when I found this gem...Life changing...😊

[@taz-on-the-looseyusef5526]

I've just came across this lady, and Im amazed at this talent voice and playing, she was so relaxed

[@deanmurphy2265]

❣️

[@MrGino714]

I second that @Kathryn

[@RebeccaEdwardsJamesEdwards]

Wow!! Why didn't the world change for the better immediately after Nina Simone sang this?!! She's so incredible! Still important to listen to today (2020).

[@moe42o]

Especially now!

[@lewishowe2285]

At least somebody gave it a listen respect Rebecca Edwards share it with your friends and family let's get this heard for Nina's sake she would appreciate highly In my opinion. Spread the love not hate only for those who oppress the masses

[@diplamatikjuan3595]

@@moe42o especially especially now!

[@skypekai]

Why now? Black people have all the rights, even preferential treatment.

[@milesburke3858]

@@skypekai they have the rights but are still badly mistreated sometimes. More than white people. They still deserve justice you know... equality...

[@CarlaSophieMar]

It's impossible to listen to Nina Simone without feeling all of the feels! This woman was pure raw emotion. An activist through her music. An intense genius!

[@richardcondon3797]

Rare that use of the language at your level.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

let's not overlook what an incredible piano player she is. so tasteful and swinging hard.

[@samuelguillaume9489]

When she said, “Spirit is moving now”, I could feel that! You can just feel it.

[@horaciogonzalez3734]

I love r&b, soul, blues, funk 🥳🥳

[@ara-pf5zx]

When she’s just humming the melody after she says that... you can see how she feels it

[@lewishowe2285]

Powerful soul she is the whole world should listen to what she is saying. Now more than ever

[@sawtoothiandi]

bro, im buzzin here right now from that

[@sawtoothiandi]

@@lewishowe2285 amen

[@weerob15]

The "eyes" say it all for me - she means it, and she was right and still, unfortunately, very relevant today, some over 40 years later! Keep playing it!

[@samuelmuiruri4704]

a timeless message, social change is slow, so we repeat one thing like dylan-how many times can a man pretend he does not see?

[@mollyjaynecallisse2576]

Be afraid... very afraid... I tell you there is reason to be. I have seen what is to come. I do not know the exact day or hour but something wicked brewing soon will boil and we whose eyes are wide open must not shut them in fear and we must not turn away from those we mean to embrace even when they and many it will seem at first turn against us because they have more reason to be afraid. Know who you are. Know the truth to be known. Know what you know not. Know all cannot not be known. Be afraid but be bold. Fear has a friend in faith. Believe in the restoration of humanity as a people of many varieties like facets of a gem. We are beautiful together. This is not politics or religion and I'm not claiming super powers. However any may respond, I have no more to say here. Be well, one and all. I love every human, even those who despise me for I believe in the potential of the human spirit until the moment it is extinguished, but I do not entertain affection for the person shaped by a character built of repeatedly practiced conscious habits of immorality that violate the dignity or worse of others even in the context of having been amply provided for, instructed and guided in development that would allow moral correction. So, whoever you are, reader, my love to you.

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

@@mollyjaynecallisse2576 that's bold. And a HARD truth to live. Live well. Love well.

[@derekbrou]

"everybody should be free cuz if we ain't we're murderers" what badass a line

[@jarrettdestouet7261]

💯

[@BogoljubTeofilovic]

LYRICS: * I wish I knew how it would feel to be free I wish I could break all the chains of steel binding me I wish I could say all the things that I can say when I'm relaxed I'm restarting anew * I wish I could be like a bird in the sky (don't leave me) How sweet it would be to find that I could fly I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea Then I'd sing because I know how it feels to be free Then I'd sing because I know how it feels to be free * I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart I wish I could break all things that bind us apart I wish you could know what it means to be me And you'd see, you'd agree everybody should be free (because if we ain't we're murderers) * I wish I could be like a bird in the sky How sweet it would be if I could find that I could fly I'd soar to the sun, look down at the sea Man, I know, yes I know Oh yeah, the spirit is moving now [humming] * I know, got news for you, I already know Jonathan Livingston Seagull ain't got nothing on me Free, free, free, free I'm free, and I know it Don't wanna be a And I show it But I'm still free And believe in me, it's alright * And I'd sing, sing, sing Cause I would know I already know I already know I found out how it feels not to be chained to anything to any race to any faith to anybody to any creed to any hopes to any-anything I know how it feels to be free (stolen from a comment on an older video of this performance)

[@zanamilovanovic]

Ti stihovi su me pogodili.

[@OneDayInMyGarden]

That was me typing it out and posting it in another upload of this performance, thanks for the mention

[@arlenekrantz280]

Thanks for the lyrics

[@kiri101]

*Chains that (are) still binding me *'Cos if we ain't we're murderous

[@kathybreuer3849]

Love

[@peymonmaskan8393]

One of the greatest live performances I’ve ever seen. Just showed my 3 year old son.

[@MJ-dv2gr]

They way she stood up at the end... like she just gave everything she had. What a phenomenal woman!!!

[@dwightglanville7908]

N she did! She knew she killed it!

[@Thacarshee]

Nina is always about peace and freedom. I'm a 24 year old man my eyes got wet by looking at her, Her passion and her voice is extremely beautiful. She's art. I will always love HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL.

[@HumptyDumpty-os7ie]

She’s almost detached when playing the piano.. So effortless Brilliant artist Can’t. Be. Touched.

[@TigerDriver66]

There was absolutely no one like Nina Simone.

[@loveinautumn3978]

She was so uniquely beautiful to me.

[@keyboarddancers7751]

Definitely an internal beauty.

[@obinnaizuora5013]

Black women possess unique beauty

[@togbeosagyefo8705]

@@keyboarddancers7751 external beauty, you’re blind

[@keyboarddancers7751]

@@togbeosagyefo8705 I'm not blind although my sight is in fact extremely limited (I have to wear contact lenses AND glasses). Nina Simone possessed a unique and *beautiful* talent which I try in some small measure to replicate (🤣) with my modest piano playing ability. However my aesthetic tastes regarding women (like most men I suspect) are *NOT* universal - in other words, there is no fundamental code or standard for beauty to which anybody is obliged to adhere.

[@shantelljohnson912]

They played this as we entered my aunts funeral & it hit hard 😢 wish we could be free like her from so many pains & trials of life

[@franciscopartida4167]

My obsession with Nina Simone surprises me sometimes. ♡♡♡♡

[@ungradphysmath7438]

Same♥♥

[@samuelmuiruri4704]

its what genius does to you. u are like wtf is going on here?

[@samuelmuiruri4704]

@Wylde Wylde interesting. i saw a comment from ''soccer'' magazine commenting on a messi goal against getafe ''geniuses are capable of anything'' nina simone was in genius category.

[@dannyboy3934]

I’m telling u Every since I’ve discovered her beautiful n most irrelevant music I’m totally obsessed with her She’s a G.O.A.T. Period ✊🏿🥺💔💔💔💔

[@user-be3iq9mq9q]

It doesn't surprise me. She's amazing.

[@JT-oc8yt]

At one of the darkest times of my life, a mentor of mine recommended this song to me and ever since it has changed my life. I cry every time when I watch this video. Miss Simone was such a beautiful soul that burned so bright.

[@torrencejayy3108]

Goddamn I’m tearing up this is powerful

[@lisahannon4151]

Wow what a song major fan you can feel her pain through ever lyric n through every pore n her eyes what a life ,awful produced beautiful music every one of them her cover of I put a spell on you ,there's soo many got most of her albums never tires

[@zorby6286]

How can so much beauty emanate from just one person?

[@Dori90210]

What a PURE performance. Pure joy, pure light. Just smooth and weightless.

[@antoniomerriweather7786]

A song that’ll turn a “tough guy” into a weeping infant! I speak from experience!!!

[@otiookilo4880]

Brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to this song 😂. The song's lyrics/message, combined with her expressive performance reaches down into your soul to pull up powerful, beautiful, and dark experiences all at the same time. Wow! Thank you for this performance Nina Simone. Rest in peace 🙏🏾.

[@tartouf2]

It's impossible to listen to Nina Simone without feeling the feelings! This woman was pure raw emotion. An activist through her music. An intense genius! The energy she puts into expressing black collective pain and her own pain with THE most crystal-clear strength and beauty and talent is almost a form of kindness so many of us don't deserve. I wish in some ways she never had to burn so brightly in all that fear and darkness.

[@MF-nq9tk]

I wish I knew how to say the things I can say when I’m relaxed, I felt that

[@teamcrumb]

makes me weep every time i hear her say

[@harleyquiinnnn]

a song that is not particularly sad but it makes tears flow so easily

[@Woodroffski]

I find it impossibly sad.

[@jeshun7071]

Happy heavenly 88th birthday to Nina Simone, who made her mark as a classical, folk, Jazz, Blues singer, also known as the voice of Civil rights in the 60s as she wrote music & songs dedicated to the movement

[@jodiechapman8037]

2.52 everybody should be free cause if we aint we are murderers. #truth

[@witelite7779]

Good to point that out! Is not the "american" government a bunch of murderers?? The military, the police, the hospitals, the cdc's (Centers for disease creation), the red Cross, fema, know it! Our freedom is within us! We are more powerful than we think we are; google "chakras" our spiritual body we've been ignoring or we did not know about them. Time to know and power up! Guns, rioting, war, protesting, writing books is not the answer. Knowing your true self, looking within and following your heart and intuition is the way to go. Peace and Love to all❤️💕 HEALING WISDOM TRUTH JOY

[@balancedscales5093]

U heard that right... Something to think about.. She so deep w her songs

[@ara-pf5zx]

Chills

[@ALYoung-wj8td]

I just heard about Nina Simone about 2 months ago!! I watched a documentary on Netflix!!What an amazing pianist and singer !! I think she felt strapped down by her abusive husband that only thought about money!! I wish she would have played Carnegie Hall as a classical piano player!! That was her dream for most of her life!!

[@lisaparks7795]

Damn! The ending gives me chills. Unfortunately these lyrics are just as relevant today as they were when she performed this in '76.

[@GOLIATHdominates]

What?! How could they not be relevant? It's not about race, it's a human thing! Freedom!

[@edwardmaqeda7006]

"Don't lead me" she is listening to everyone while playing her part perfectly

[@lukeslark]

I think it's: "Don't leave me" - she's finding her way into this audience and beseeching them to follow her. But "Don't lead me" is just as likely: an admonishment to her drummer not to push the beat.

[@gregoryborton6598]

@@lukeslark It's hard to tell, but it seems like the drummer was slightly rushing till the "don't lead me" part. I'm not all that sure, but if you're playing in such an intimate duo it's intuition to tell when someone is rushing before it's noticeable to the listener.

[@John-pg9vk]

Masterful.

[@tonyb.3796]

I thought I heard “don’t leave me” which was in reference to her singing about the bird in flying the sky. Like “don’t leave me”... I want to fly too. Just a thought.

[@stonedmermaid6092]

@@tonyb.3796 that’s whati always thought too

[@anthonychilcote872]

This is equally beautiful and heartbreaking

[@gerrenmcbryde6013]

Does anyone else get moved to tears with this one? lol

[@rosahodge420]

The NC gospel influence is everything on this song. She had the most unique alto voice that easily slips to levels of baritone. Genius. RIP Nina. ...you are free now.

[@Ethaa]

She is singing about total freedom and that's just marvelous. Lord. She didn't settle for less than the best for she knew the ravages of racist and sexist oppression. Thank you Lord for each and every human you send near us, thanks so much for all those trembling hearts, eager to do good among so many indifferent and greedy hearts...Nina Simone, your heart was strong and so fragile, pushed so many times to the edge but you kept countenance and composure and kept fighting, while your exhausted, frightened and devastated soul, like the souls of so many oppressed Afrorelated humans, was doing its best to cope with the racial terror of those and our days.

[@zuluvegans6897]

I have listened to this here on Earth, and surely will continue to listen to it in the next world. What a bomb, and as cool as she is, it comes out naturally….🎹 It resonates with me well as a middle age South African black dude who grew up under Apartheid. My father used to listen to this master piece every Sunday morning before we went to the Old Apostolic Church …..🎹

[@evrydae]

What a grand woman.

[@danjf1]

Nina's got those perfect piano hands. I was born with a drummers hands but have always wanted to play some jazz on a Steinway :-)

[@GQ3MindSpeaks]

I've just been turned on to Nina Simone. Well, I just now decided to give her a listen. I've heard of her but never gave her an opportunity to carve out a place in my soul. I'm glad I rectified that mistake from youth.

[@m00tw00t]

Same here

[@aishax01]

Congratulations! 😋 She's amazing!

[@janetsalahuddin3068]

I’m 77. I was a young teenager when a friend of mine decided that I had to get to know about Nina Simone. He made me listen manager. to I loves you Porgy over and over again until I got it. Been a fan ever since. Every payday I would go to Smith’s record store on St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans and buy one of her albums. The last time she toured, she came to the Mahalia Jackson theatre in Armstrong (Louis) . I was working at the post office and couldn’t get off. When my shift ended, I went there anyway, and since the box office was no longer manned, I got in free. After she finished, I went to give my price of admission to her. She sent me a post card that I still have. She said, “You heard my real message.” As fortune would have it, I sat behind my friend, Billy Estavan, who’d originally turned me on to her. That was the last time I ever saw him, as he died of aid soon after.

[@paymonbidari278]

With every sound of her voice, she strings in my heart and soul.

[@margarethcarmo9654]

Mine too

[@sharonchapman3525]

Damn she could play that there piano!

[@tesmith47]

she trained at a very prestigus music school as a european music pianist, but chose to play BLACK MUSIC

[@klord3677]

There is no black and white music, there’s no race music. It’s music. Enjoy it, don’t look at the race, look at the talent

[@tonyv2373]

@@tesmith47 Actually she loved Classical above all. She had her opportunity for a scholarship denied to her because of the color of her skin and was forced to play jazz to pay for her school. It was also there she began to sing. She was one of the most brilliant composers of the 20th century and blended white and black musical tradition in ways that cannot be duplicated. She was beyond comprehension with her talent.

[@tesmith47]

@@tonyv2373yes, she played EUROPEAN music too

[@tesmith47]

@@klord3677 that is a delusion, ALL MUSIC IS "RACE" MUSIC !! Whites society try to assign grades!!

[@zaiioa]

this might just be the best song ive ever heard

[@stellac.e2086]

😊THANK GOD for KZbin. Ninas musical brilliance lives on. she was deep!!! an amazing piano player & song writer.

[@RealBradMiller]

The fact that there are people out there that think people of a different color are different or inferior blows my mind. I love you, no matter who you are, or what you think of me.

[@geospider]

I agree. It really doesn’t matter what you look like! But- in the recent comments I saw someone say “Since when they grow legs at Hershey’s!” And “All that chocolate running wild!” That’s a disgusting thing to say. Shame on who said that. Someone sharing their experiences to change the world for the better is still judged by what she was trying to be free. Shame!

[@TheCarlocaroline]

First time I've realised a song could move your spirit like that. She actually transports you along with her. Mesmerizing!

[@djbrownsville]

this song getting over a million in less than a year gives me hope that there are still some Real Music fans out there. the constant close up shot - you can just see that this Art flows through Nina. Ms Nina, Thank you for sharing your Art with the world. we're blessed. Love Ms Nina S.

[@fontedossentimentos]

Such a nice surprise! I wasn't expecting to listen to this music today. Happiness is in the simplest things in life!

[@harleyquiinnnn]

this song always sounds like a summer breeze with butterflies on fields to me

[@MzJanuary]

I've seen her perform this song in so many different ways and I love them all. Love you, Queen. 👑👑👑

[@eyesonthemosthigh9241]

Such a powerful performance. Touched my soul 🙏

[@margarethcarmo9654]

Check her history Prodigy.

[@eyesonthemosthigh9241]

@@margarethcarmo9654 thank you. I've actually got to know and see who she truly was.

[@eyesonthemosthigh9241]

Literally drowned myself into her music one day. Was in awe the whole time

[@Alpha-Andromeda]

If I could play like this and sing like this and express like this I would be in musical Nirvana. Hail Nina 🌟

[@msvespa1702]

Everytime I play this, my spirit grows stronger, more expansive, and soars! Magnificent performance.

[@luanalimitlesspossibilitie9269]

"Not to be chained to any race, any faith....anything" She 100% understood and was free. So Beautiful 💜🦋💜🦋💜

[@rochestertipton8243]

My fave is "Sinnerman"! Nina has been my Queen of Soul for so many years!! Back in 1966 ....when I was just returning home from a military base .I was introduced to Nina Simone! There will never be another like her!!

[@romanrobinson1860]

I felt it when she stroke the note at 2:45

[@amapparatistkwabena]

Roman Robinson I feel you, bruh. I feel every note that she strikes-and it’s brilliant.

[@AAARRRGGGHHHHHH]

It reverberates through your very soul in the best way possible.

[@teampyro911]

Oh shit! Hell of an ending

[@flaviaromano9834]

Happy Birthday Nina ! Remember you always !

[@Swiftie10162]

Why isn't this woman recognized as a genius virtuoso in the same league as men such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, etc. ??

[@TomatoBreadOrgasm]

Isn't she? When I hear of the greats, I hear of Simone.

[@LKKMD]

Because she's a Black woman

[@spookavision]

She is

[@Danilo8208SS]

because she didn’t have the hits

[@danielaevans9331]

I think she is dude. Its The Nina Simone!!

[@user-be3iq9mq9q]

How a song that makes me feel so happy can simultaneously bring tears to my eyes...therein lies the power of music.

[@jadeanahata9877]

Freaking wonderful. How powerful it is to recognise oneself, and what an honor to witness someone express that of themselves 🌻

[@emiliogarcia4976]

Très jolie compliment d un français et nous on si connaît en compliment 💐🌺🌷

[@jadeanahata9877]

​​@@emiliogarcia4976🙏💚

[@chrishorgan5860]

There is such subtle angst in her vocals and cleverly done but its so powerful and angry pure power I hope that comes across as its meant Absolute genius

[@janajones6879]

Oh My God... I Appreciate you Ms. NINA SIMONE... I Absolutely Love this Woman..."I'm Free and I Know it".❣💞🖤🖤🖤🥰🥰💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

[@angelasingian7976]

Watching her perform live brings tears to my eyes

[@carolinemoreschi255]

oh Nina... We LOVE you! 2021... we are still here!

[@laurefrappat6277]

My Hero, my Queen, The One & Only 🔝🔝🔝

[@g.gmartinez1115]

I put on this every time i have breakfast Way superior to the original version She out did herself with this performance And we are all richer for it

[@dionlamarmills3404]

AbsoLUTELY!!!!

[@chelseav.8620]

Oh Nina, rest in peace. Your art and spirit still move us so deeply every day.

[@carmencruz2326]

That was so powerful! When she got up at the end was like she channelled every ancestor and brought them back to live....Jheez I felt that deep!

[@xeniak6523]

An amazing manifesto of every human who if FREE

[@southloop32]

What an amazing blessing and damned curse to have such talent that it ultimately destroys you. This world doesn’t deserve someone like Nina. Rest in peace ❤

[@kettymartire7660]

Miss Nina non posso dire quale sia la sua performance più gradita...anche perché lei ha il dono di non suonare mai allo stesso modo un suo brano....io l adoro ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jiolo3404]

Dr Simone you were my inspiration for as to why I learnt to play the piano 🎹❤️ miss you Queen 👑😔

[@ayshasharma176]

I heard this for the first time and I feel for all those people in history during slavery. This can hit differently for everyone, but looking at her and hearing every word, its making a different impact. What a mess we had in history..and sadly today as well in some parts of world.

[@kauanbarbosa1942]

Nina Simone was an icon! her voice pass by my veins and I can feel the brightly revolutionary energy she left behind on earth and it's available for us. love you nina.

[@AR-oi4hg]

An artist who reflected the times, and put her heart in her music. Rare then and rare now.

[@baileighempire8899]

This is just too beautiful. Something poignant about it.

[@guy-sandrinedalo2321]

I luv Nina she make me feel so alive somehow! luv her music, her talent...luv the flow she gives to keys on the piano... damn feels so good hearing it!!!

[@nguyenantiem7932]

You go crazy with the music. I really like it !!!

[@raymondkillick2483]

Love Nina Simone’s songs and piano playing

[@swaggerguru]

I needed this today. 🕊

[@vababy45]

I can feel the pain and joy from her soul. This lady is phenomenal.

[@landa-dd6pm]

omg i love it.

[@ivonitacorrea]

Amazing!!!

[@paulwhetstone0473]

Nina is one of the few performers who can bring a tear to my eyes.

[@relaxingrain8395]

Goosebumps and tears everytime

[@jonathandavid8932]

You are an inspiration to all of us. Thank you:)

[@daniellopez-eu4kq]

Thanks you’re a wonderful work of art.

[@samuelmuiruri4704]

i am obsessed with Simone and her music

[@markwitz]

What a delicious piano intro to the song and an amazing total performance.

[@ellenfromoregon8192]

Love this!

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

I’m in awe! ❤️