Powerful song by Nina Simone "Four Women" 1969:

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In a shameful era of America, she was denied an education in classical piano at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philly because she was black. She really was a sensation on the piano in spite of the asssholes at Curtis.

Listen to this, Love me or leave me, black and white, note the great piano break in the middle!

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Bye Bye Blackbird:

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Here she is doing Bob Dylan's Ballad of Hollis Brown!:

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This has to be the most powerful version of that song I ever heard! The planet is a better place for her being here.

And the song she mentioned in the Hollis Brown intro, Tomorrow is my turn:

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Protest song again, Revolution, 1969:

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