Nina Simone, tribute poem BY LEAH
a picture of Leah Tunkara and NINA SIMONE AT THE END OF THIS CLIP, Leah read's her peom 'Ms. Simone' taken from her book FROM HARLEM TO MAUI.
Leah toured with Nina Simone working as her personal assistant in 1988, ON HIT SONG 'MY BABY JUST CARE'S FOR ME ' EUROPEAN TOUR 1988. BLACK HISTORY NOTES: leahtunkara.com Pan African NEWS
POEM: Ms. Simone
a born prodigy, classical pianist, Intellectual properties that scream Black Power !
Deep, rich, mad, and classical, fingers that not only dance but march down on black and white chords of GRAND !
GRAND AFFAIRS THAT BRING MANY STANDING OVATIONS. PEOPLE CRYING WITH ENCORES.
but I personally have looked into those eyes
Rich tones, long range, road warrior on planes.
Singing of private moments that can only be lived to be recorded on tracks
Tracks after tracks laid down in history TO BE YOUNG GIFTED and BLACK.
From North Carolina to the South of France it's a tall black woman who speaks fluent French and bitches in nigger RAGE American ! Merci beau coup !
Ouiet tears more feminine and sensitive than any Oueen.
It's intimate,deep, unforgiven, naked and lonely with no compromise !
It's the HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL NINA SIMONE.
Merci beau coup
its the HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL NINA SIMONE !
by Leah Tunkara, BOOK: FROM HARLEM to Maui
If you want to learn more about Ms. Simone read the book she wrote called ' I PUT A SPELL ON YOU" by Nina Simone, The Autnbiography pluss and anything that
Al Shackman says in the media would be on piont.
Her band leader Al Shackman.
