A year-long celebration of Nina Simone to mark what would have been her ninetieth birthday has been introduced by Verve Records and UMe. The marketing campaign, titled Happy Birthday, Miss Simone, is a rolling invitation to have a good time the distinctive artist’s famend profession and her enduring influence throughout music, style, and extra.
Among the highlights of this system are the first-ever official video for her timeless model of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You”; a brand new biggest hits compilation; immersive Dolby Atmos mixes of her total UMG catalog; and an audiophile-grade vinyl urgent of Wild Is The Wind. Many extra plan can be introduced all through 2023.
Verve Records president Jamie Krents says: “There is no way to adequately describe the impact Nina Simone continues to have on music and culture. We are thrilled to be spending 2023 celebrating her life and legacy and continuing to help her music find new audiences around the world.”
UMe president and CEO Bruce Resnikoff provides: “Nina Simone’s music and message remains as vitally important today as ever, perhaps even more so, and we look forward to celebrating her genius and influence all year long.”
Happy Birthday, Miss Simone launches with right now’s (21) launch of Great Women of Song: Nina Simone, which gathers collectively her most beloved hits, together with “Feeling Good,” “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and plenty of extra in a 12-track choice that can be indispensable to new admirers and devotees alike. The album is the primary launch in Verve’s Great Women of Song collection, which is able to go on to spotlight the works of equally storied musicians within the Verve catalog reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
Ken Druker, SVP of jazz improvement, says: “Over the years, we’ve learned that as soon as someone hears Nina Simone for the first time, they become Nina Simone fans. Through celebrating this milestone birthday, we hope to give more people the opportunity to benefit from all that Miss Simone’s music has to offer.”
The first official music video for “I Put A Spell on You” celebrates a number of the culturally vital seems to be worn by Miss Simone throughout a profession wherein she utilized style as a instrument of self expression, in daring seems to be on stage and in her on a regular basis life.
In June, Verve will launch the beforehand unreleased dwell album You’ve Got to Learn, recorded on the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival. The six-song set contains the title tune and “Mississippi Goddam,” and can go away listeners as entranced as had been the unique pageant viewers, whose fervent applause led to a show-stopping encore.
Beginning right now, Simone’s total UMG catalog is offered to stream in immersive Dolby Atmos spatial audio. A really restricted version Mastercut Edition of I Put a Spell on You can also be now obtainable. In August, Verve/UMe’s admired audiophile vinyl reissue collection, Acoustic Sounds, will mark trhe artist’s ninetieth birthday with an audiophile-grade urgent of her landmark 1966 studio album, Wild Is The Wind, pressed on 180 gram vinyl and mastered from the unique analog tapes.
In October, all seven of Simone’s 1960’s Philips albums will come collectively in a single LP assortment. Four Women: The Nina Simone Complete Recordings 1964-1967 contains the seven albums she recorded for the Philips label between 1964 and 1967, one of the vital creatively and culturally vital intervals of her profession.
Buy or stream Great Women of Song: Nina Simone.