Tamara Geerts / Nina Simone (wild As The Wind) at La Sauvenière

Mixing jazz and theater, "Nina Simone, Wild as the Wind" is an extraordinary tribute to the artist, in the sense that the accent is not only put on music, but on the discovery of a personality nourished by frustrations, hopes, breaks, distractions and rages. This concert show unveils to the public the turn that took the life of a black woman and talented in the twentieth century. The show places the music in a socio-political context, in order to better understand the racial problem, the place of the woman, the role that culture and music can have in a society in perpetual mutation. Nina was the face of the civil rights movement of the American black population, and her music "soundtrack of a troubled era" was her weapon...

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Mixing jazz and theater, "Nina Simone, Wild as the Wind" is an extraordinary tribute to the artist, in the sense that the accent is not only put on music, but on the discovery of a personality nourished by frustrations, hopes, breaks, distractions and rages. This concert show unveils to the public the turn that took the life of a black woman and talented in the twentieth century. The show places the music in a socio-political context, in order to better understand the racial problem, the place of the woman, the role that culture and music can have in a society in perpetual mutation. Nina was the face of the civil rights movement of the American black population, and her music "soundtrack of a troubled era" was her weapon. Music, a universal language, speaks to both our mind and our soul, it connects people and makes their hearts beat at the same tempo.

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