Simone - Feeling Good - Nina

: Nina threw out the polite show-tune cadence. She opened the track completely a cappella, letting her deep, rich contralto stand entirely alone in the air.

: America was a boiling pot of racial tension and civil rights protests. Nina Simone - Feeling Good

He sings the lyrics to celebrate a rare victory over his oppressors, who had rigged a giant game of life against him. : Nina threw out the polite show-tune cadence

Nina Simone didn't just sing the song; she possessed it. Denied her dream of being a classical concert pianist due to institutional racism at the Curtis Institute of Music, Nina was a woman who knew exactly what it meant to fight for her own agency. 🕊️ A Deep Story of Liberation He sings the lyrics to celebrate a rare

In 1964, British composers Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley wrote "Feeling Good" for a theatrical musical called The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd .

While it was written as a localized moment of triumph in a stage play, it was merely waiting for a messenger who truly understood the weight of that victory. 🎹 Nina Simone's Reclamation