Nina Simone
Eunice Waymon
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Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in a modest North Carolina home, she displayed prodigious piano talent from early childhood, earned a scholarship that sent her to Allen High School for Girls, and spent a summer at the Juilliard School before a denied audition at the Curtis Institute-an outcome she later attributed to racial bias. After a stint as a nightclub accompanist in Atlantic City, she adopted t…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources