Nina Simone interviewed on Wired

[@emmanymatthew2539]

Switzerland gives me peace, Liberia gives me life, England gives me honour. Her use of word is outstanding. Nina my Queen

[@lorebay2593]

emmany matthew her African Ancestry and nobility shines through, she must have come through a family of Kings and royalty always knowing she should no be treated less than and rejected it. Queen indeed.

[@OneTrineMendUs]

@@lorebay2593 Yip my Auntie Simone, Qkeeng indeed Love You Lady 🌿👸🏾⚘ Rise In Power Qkeeng Aunt. Rise In Power ✊🏽⚜👏🏽⚜🤲🏽

[@swisschoklate736]

Of all the places, England! More America you should be ASHAMED!

[@traveonsmith256]

@@swisschoklate736 America is no better

[@junglejane3836]

"I am not a blues singer, I dont like blues...blues make me blue."- Nina Simone You gotta love her.

[@FCLaney]

Baby was def the blues 😂

[@denizepalmer7625]

She makes me feel powerful in my black skin.

[@moongazer9581]

LOL

[@jaysonwilliams2485]

She makes me feel powerful period!

[@sincerelydavillian5851]

Can I get ur Instagram love

[@ashleyskitchen6711]

As you should Queen

[@ashleyskitchen6711]

@@moongazer9581 why is that funny?

[@lamontrussell1524]

She was the real thing!

[@Alhaweeee]

Lamont Russell Damn right!

[@levinitabarlow1837]

Yes yes and yes she was

[@GodisLovetoo]

Lamont Russell You’d better bet it!!!!

[@moongazer9581]

A real piece of shit...

[@paulamitchell1653]

People feel uncomfortable with the real deal....

[@warrenking7854]

I heard someone say, "Nina is always upset". I’m my opinion when you hear her story, wouldn’t you be? However, I don’t see anger. I see an aggressive, intelligent, and pro active women/star that don’t play the B.S.

[@bettycarr6599]

"On point; my speech is mistaken for ANGER...BS & MEDIOCRITY makes me sick & tired. And stereotyping me is a No; NO"!?

[@felinefokus]

That's the world that we living in. label black women as angry 🤷‍♀️

[@patkelly3966]

Truth. Well said sir

[@margholtz]

Women who speak their mind are often labelled as aggressive.

[@lorebay2593]

Yes indeed!

[@charlesjames3328]

She was a fascinating genius. There are many stars. Nina is the moon.

[@IvoMiller]

I love this beautiful black lady of brilliant talent and resilience of a professional

[@ddggttyy]

It's so nice seeing her laugh. She was truely inspiring.

[@ayan5279]

Intelligent,witty and so PASSIONATE and you can see her face light up when the interviewer actually gets her!

[@jennybarrett4074]

WOW! I've been looking for this clip for years! (It was actually filmed for the Chanel 4 programme 'Wired', rather than 'The Wire'). I set-up this interview because I was one of the researchers on Wired and a huge fan. Nina began the interview not too happy, banging out 'My Baby Just Cares For Me' and no doubt expecting to have to present some flimsy fan fodder, but she immediately warmed beautifully and visibly to the lovely, and now sadly late, Tim Graham. Tim was a lifelong follower, as was his Mum whose influence had given him such a deep knowledge of Nina's work. You can see the bond from the get-go and especially when he clearly knows 'Consummation' - quite a rarely hear song I think. She's right, England gives her honour - and what an honour it was to be in that room that day!

[@LeenaStark]

This world was never meant for one as *beautiful* as YOU Nina. Rest In Eternal Love.

[@moongazer9581]

Lol

[@joepronhaar5682]

Or maybe it was, just to inspire others

[@kiapoohbaby020]

She was torn to pieces so that I (The new generation) could be whole! Thank you Dr.Simone

[@BLKENDOLLBARBIE]

I could never grow tried of her vocal ability. It seems so Raw and soulful.

[@andiwaslikefasho]

Powerful, Beautiful, Amazing I cant get enough. I adore Nina!

[@loelion9513]

Exactly

[@teejay8910]

Miss Nina Simone 🙏🏽 Rest In Heaven 🙏🏽 My Queen... Shinning bright in your GOLD

[@passionatebraziliangirl.4801]

Oh my I love when she does "I put a spell on you, because you mined!!!!" Her confidence of this song it is empowering wow! "Switzerland gives me peace, Liberia gives me life and England gives me honer!" Nina Simone"

[@butternuttt]

yaaaaaaaaaaas!!!!

[@bioinformatics73]

eloquent

[@unclejohnson9093]

Your mine* maybe

[@leonardofonseca4598]

A real woman who had a real voice, great pianist, singer, she is a legend !

[@ruesydni7703]

I swear words cannot even begin to describe how much I absolutely love and adore this lady right here ok. She is honestly and truly the most gorgeous woman in the entire world to me. She's talented, intelligent and legendary in every way and the more I research about her the more I fall in love with her and everything she did. It's like I can't stop she in my head 24/7 and I want to learn everything I can about her because she was so mysterious at times. She was so amazing and deserved more recognition for the things that she did and her talents.

[@advocatebuabeng4732]

I honour you ancestor Simone.

[@moongazer9581]

lol

[@heleneroberge2934]

This interwiever is great, kind and have respect...

[@swisschoklate736]

He’s English but American 😉

[@emilynelson5985]

She never did get enough love

[@simonbennatan8257]

mhm

[@LLindsey1427]

I never did get enough love........this breaks my heart. Neither have I. Those of us who don't know how it feels. It has made us the deeply sensitive, feeling and creative people we are.

[@dominikapilis803]

Sending love from a stranger from Rome❤

[@gloriamartinez8960]

Neither did I...

[@LLindsey1427]

@@dominikapilis803 thank you

[@LLindsey1427]

@@gloriamartinez8960 hi

[@angelicaluce3230]

"Life is short - people are not easy to KNOW - so if you don't tell them how you FEEL you're never gonna get anywhere"

[@DeeJayShawDay]

She was wonderful. Overflowing with abundance. Edit: and I love how she blossomed for this interviewer.

[@zanalies]

I love Nina Simone!! She is so pure!!

[@CarolynPorterpiprivatei]

I love Nina. She is so beautiful and smart. I can never say enough about Nina Simone. I hate that she had to suffer so much in her personal life and her music career. Wish I could have met her!

[@marizcona]

there will never be another!

[@Joemnc]

This is one of my favorite Nina Simone interviews. In most of them she does not appear to be happy. It's nice to see that she was a happy woman. I read in a biography that, late in life, she was diagnosed as bipolar.

[@michaelkylow4411]

Yeah! And it is important to say that most of her issues and intensity (or sadness, as you please) are due to all the hate/prejudice towards her because of her skin color; paraphrasing her song: “Ya'll people, goddamn!! ”, definitely a great (or the greatest) woman.

[@BLKENDOLLBARBIE]

I think she had trouble coping with the trauma of being abused by a man she loved. I also think the pressures that came along with being so gifted were hard for her to handle. She was trained to be this amazing force from age four. Nina clearly just wanted to know who she truly was as a living person without having someone else's opinion dictate her life's journey. It's seems to me that she understood that her gift in music was something larger then her, something from a divine source.

[@taciturnorb]

well said

[@ericmorgan6791]

She was very happy. Passionate and a fighter for equality. She looked sad at times because of the disgust she has seen and been through. And then later because of her medications. She was and always will be perfection...

[@oceanlover2426]

Respectfully, I am not sure how many people would be happy facing the conditions and trauma of just existing that she faced.

[@juliegogo2941]

I admire her genuine honesty. Thanks

[@JoshMaxPower]

I've woken up and put on Nina Simone's "Here Comes The Sun" a few hundred times. Love this woman. If you have a chance, read her autobiography, angry and raw and you really get a sense of why she was the way she was, and why people were ferocious in their adoration of her.

[@funk_dust33]

I utterly adore this wonderful emblem of Black excellence, power and resilience. I hope she is at peace now with all that happened to her. I'll always love you, Nina. My children will know your voice and spirit ❤

[@aidie2311]

Switzerland gives me peace, Liberia gives me life, England gives me honor

[@lookhowshegobbledthat]

What a woman. If there's any artist dead or alive I'd like to meet... it's Nina.

[@kimwilsonowen]

Y'know, I wouldn't pay those Rolling Stones / Eagles arena shows to meet Elvis or Jesus (sorry Jesus!) But I believe I'd pay big money to sit with Nina Simone.

[@Artistic_Integrityy]

Me toooooooo ❤

[@Angelaoliviaguillory]

Gratitude for the spirit in her body, gratitude for the internet to be able to watch such powerful footage of interviews and concerts.

[@Dark_Shade91]

She has been such an icon for me 🙌🏼. I love her music, her voice is powerful that it gives me chills 😭. #MotherNinaSimone

[@d3a1990]

Stunningly graceful, strikingly talented. An inspiration!

[@ciaraskeleton]

I grew up with a dad who was obsessed with Nina, I grew up taking her music for granted. Now I'm an adult I'm understanding the power she held. As a woman, as a black woman in America. Even in the way she held herself. I always found her so beautiful. That portrait on one of her album covers where it's her side profile is a huge source of inspiration for me in my creative life. Truly a Queen.

[@tonyevz9457]

She was a incredible women.. what a singer, songwriter, her songs r timeless... peace an quiet.. 😎✌

[@felinefokus]

People are not easy to know so if you don't tell them how you feel you're never going to get anywhere. - *#MotherNinaSimone*

[@moongazer9581]

She wasn't much of a mother as she abandoned her daughter and abused her every moment she spent with her!

[@carlajones8741]

How did they try to cast that young actress to play her? This woman has so much substance.

[@dansefureva7664]

To water her down

[@kimciszek-kane397]

Hollywood is a money making machine. They wanted to satisfy it and pleasing the Black People.

[@juancpgo]

“I'm not a blues singer” - Yes she was a blues singer, but also a jazz singer, a soul singer, a classical musician… she had all of that in her and it manifested in her music.

[@maretashepherd]

I’m just discovering Nina Simone and I love her

[@april-inparis]

Simply Amazing, this woman!

[@bozm9961]

complete..for one life!! complete..repose in peace Nina.

[@enchantedways]

Absolutely incomparable!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@artyox5100]

BLESS NINA SIMONE LOVE...GREAT INTERVIEW!

[@JoshuaJClarkeKelsall]

Nice to hear Nina sticking up for her passionate love songs.

[@NinaSimoneMusic]

She says, "England gives me honor."

[@ptrck99]

Great interview. What a pity it was so short!

[@focus2442]

Young, Gifted and Black 🥂

[@calvinterrell2053]

What a brilliant soul...she was! I enjoy listening to her songs as well as her stories...❤

[@ryanedward9334]

SHE'S TOTALLY AWESOME!!!

[@gloriamartinez8960]

She was a Diva .. Great voice.. Love her music💞

[@seyifunmiakinruntan1130]

I love Nina so much❤

[@Lawrence_619]

when I hear her talk or sing, all I feel from her is warmth and love....she oozes kindness and love. I dont think she was born, tough. I believe the circumstances she was born into (poverty, segregation, female struggles) conditioned her to be VERY tough...as well as what she endured in the music industry. But she projects kindness and love. I wish I could have met her personally just to tell her that. I saw her in concert, a few yrs before she died. And I felt like I was witnessing royalty. She was incredible. And her music is untouchable.

[@soaringbutterfly]

love her. so grateful for moving picture.

[@okk2776]

Amazing... Admire her to the end of her life, i really can't see anything that she did wrong!

[@moongazer9581]

Well shooting a child for disturbing her music practise and abusing her daughter and then abandoning her isn't exactly right, is it...?

[@haroldstella1398]

PIONEER AND LEGEND ❤️❤️⭐️⭐️🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Who is the interviewer ? Not a young Tim 'hip hop' Westwood is it ? He actually does a great job here whoever he is

[@dweir2584]

Well it was a Tim, Tim Graham. He was a great interviewer. Apparently Nina said this was one her favourite interviews in her career.

[@enricovankeeken9503]

@@dweir2584 I Álso thought it was...tim Westwood* Whom I Lóve*

[@AAwildeone]

She's sooo smooth and cool when talking about her love songs....but I think she is quite clear in saying a wonderful rendition of a love song is not so far separated from Mississippi Gaddam....

[@kiandeshouseofmusic5735]

What a great interview!!!✌🏼❤

[@maria.maverick]

I love her. I love her. I love her.

[@justinmarin2455]

Love this W.O.M.A.N!!!!!! 😍😍

[@tspoken3857]

She is the word passionate in human form

[@jacinta6421]

I love this black women❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Ethericrose]

Oh how I love you. Nina was/ is a Goddess!!

[@Marymay83]

She was a overwonderful soul, at 4:23 she said … they think I’m bigger than life .. she was a very great talent and at the end of the day she was also a woman in this world, with her own normal problems and feelings. But I guess she found a way to find a satisfaction within her music… that’s golden

[@cirepooch]

Sheer brilliance!

[@jasonphillips8236]

I wish I could have had a conversation with her

[@jompesundman6565]

Happy birthday today 2021-02-21 Nina love you💕

[@angelvannpoetry]

Love Nina Simone , I THINK I GOT HER SPIRIT AND SOUL IN ME .

[@anitamiles5125]

I feel you my N.C Piscean sister😇

[@diamondjubileegoldieshine7343]

Beautiful person...😀😁😀😁

[@jameshorne3959]

True great pure talent I love you x

[@leonardojensenribeiro7252]

Legend. Inspiration. I will never give up fighting for equal rights because of you. You are in my PhD thesis. Thanks Dr. Simone

[@miezaandjorai5988]

Freeking amazing interview

[@garythorpe1996]

I was in love with her from the first time i saw her i'm a white man married to a great black women i told my wife she was my first love

[@FatimahD444]

I love her❤

[@emilianacarbonero4728]

HERMOSA MUJER FUE NINA. ADMIRACIÓN POR ELLA Y MALCOM X. HAY DÍAS QUE ODIÓ TANTO

[@teresanelson3190]

I was born 1964. This documentary fuels my soul.

[@Itsdivinedivine]

A goddess a definitive queen

[@michelefitzgerald6603]

SHE MAKES ME FEEL

[@zalenaskye700]

She reminds me of my old music teacher

[@anjolaxo3875]

Yessssss Rep Pisces Nina♓️💖👑🙌🏾

[@rainyfeathers9148]

Dr Simone🤩

[@Scotitalic]

Amazing woman

[@ShivavihS]

You click on a Nina Simone video and in the recommendations you get MLK Jr and James Baldwin... Says a lot about who she was.

[@purrminaj9727]

in love with nina this interviewer did his homework

[@ttbay2]

Beautiful thank you

[@tueloxmokgothu122]

She always had a cigarette with her. 😭💕😍💃

[@senhoradolago1]

Fiz esse poema ouvindo Nina Simone. Será que estamos no topo do mundo? Cismo com as coisas quase prontas A vida nunca está acabada... Sem fim, sem fim, onde podemos chegar? Se o abismo é de flores? Caiamos, quem sabe As asas do amor nos façam voar. Solte seu melhor sorriso Quem sabe ele limpe minhas lágrimas Hoje ouvi por horas Nina Simone. O que todos buscamos? Paz em nossos corações E aquela manhã onde as correntes São quebradas por uma esperança tênue Não sei o que me faz escrever Se são todas as coisas Ou coisa alguma... Os dias de sol, as tardes frias. Hoje me senti meio Nina, Entediada de nãos, de nãos. A espera de algum sim... Autora Liê Ribeiro 16/07/2020 Paz e luz.

[@DivineDIVINE26]

Slay that piano queen

[@peterstevens6630]

I never did get enough love...

[@Ladywinona243]

👊❤2020 1Love

[@adriankelly3234]

Well I can tell you.are a legendary stand up person.being black you represent great strength and I'm white keep keep being strong.

[@Miki_kawai1]

NINA SIMONE IN THURCROFT JUNIOR ACADEMY THATS OUR SINGER

[@bachnrolla]

I love her speaking voice as much as her singing voice. To those outside the US, Nina Simone was not technically born in the "Deep South" as the host says. The Deep South is traditionally considered those states who seceded from the US before Ft. Sumter was attacked. NC was a "border state," which while not literally on the border between the CSA and the USA, seceded after Ft. Sumter, as did VA, AK, and TN. Of course, TX is not usually considered Deep South either so the term is muddled.

[@territ.5357]

It may not be the deep south but it definently acted like it was and still do..

[@LionHrtMuzik]

Beautiful Black Queen!

[@LeahsWALKABOUT]

I was with her this year, Dr.Simone sent for me , and I went to London for my very first time lol. Leah Tunkara

[@TenaciousB20]

You were with who?

[@LeahsWALKABOUT]

@@TenaciousB20 Nina Simone, I work for her in 1988

[@TenaciousB20]

Ahhh gotcha. That was amazing

[@LeahsWALKABOUT]

@@TenaciousB20 Early this year I did some spots for BBC Radio talking about what it was like to work for Nina Simone.

[@KeGORGEOUS1]

@@LeahsWALKABOUT that’s amazing, how was she in her personal life behind the cameras? I love me some Nina Simone ❤️

[@prettyhollypolly7553]

7:51 funnnnnny lol