Fabulist!

Nina Simone is 9 kinds of badass. I discovered her music when I was teensy, having decided at the age of eleven I really needed an education in jazz music. I went to the library and brought home as many jazz anthology cassettes as my little arms could carry, and this is when I found my favorite song: Wild Is The Wind by Nina Simone. Originally, oddly, by Johnny Mathis-- she's got an impressive array of covers under her belt.

If you don't know, you better ask somebody.

Nina Simone - Nobody

Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone - Lilac Wine

Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddamn

Nina Simone - Don't Take All Night

Nina Simone - I Loves You Porgy

Nina Simone - I Am Blessed