{"id":2220,"date":"2010-05-13T11:25:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthologysd.com\/blog\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2010-05-13T11:25:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T18:25:26","slug":"simone-performs-simone-at-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/2010\/05\/13\/simone-performs-simone-at-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone performs Simone at Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Thomas Zizzi | examiner.com<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

Listening to Simone<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>perform on her new CD \u201cSimone on Simone<\/span><\/a>,\u201d and knowing she is the daughter of Nina Simone, one would never imagine that she was once a civil engineer in the U.S  Air Force.   \u201cMy wartime skill was identifying unexploded ordnance like in  \u201cHurt Locker<\/span><\/a>\u201d  and calling in coordinates to the command center, so planes could land and take off safely.  <\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe was born  Lisa Celeste Stroud, and she is the daughter of Nina Simone. She comes to San Diego\u2019s Anthology<\/span><\/a> as Simone  on Thursday, May 13. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nAfter 10 or so years in the military she was unsure of what direction her life was headed, but a night on the town in Frankfort, Germany seemed to offer a clue.  Simone found herself in a bistro with a talented and lively piano player who reminded her of music in church when she was growing up.  At the urging of the friend she was with. the piano player was happy to let her sit in.  Maybe it was the wine, but Simone remembers only that it felt good.  The next week (with behind-the-scenes help from that same girl friend) she received an offer to join a group and perform as a back up singer throughout Europe.  She said yes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\u201cI\u2019m glad I did not ignore how good it made me feel – I didn\u2019t want to look back twenty years later and wonder what might have been so I decided to give it a try. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe joined the group \u201cThe Magic Platters,\u201d performing hits like \u201cTwilight Time, continuing  her travels on the continent, until she got an offer to do a solo show.  That was in Switzerland, and she did a song that was one of her mother\u2019s favorites \u201cMy Baby Just Cares For Me,\u201d and she was  \u201creceived so warmly and it felt so good that I decided to stick to this course, and it\u2019s been about 18-19 years.\u201d    <\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe toured South America with a Latin sensation, \u201cRafael\u201d for a few years and then settled in Los Angeles.  She became part of a girl group, which didn\u2019t work out.  That set her again on a solo course as El\u2019 Simone, and she started making the rounds to  \u2018open mike\u2019 nights at the clubs.  Her talent got her noticed.  That led to auditions and roles for shows like \u201cJesus Christ Superstar,\u201d \u201cRent,\u201d and her acclaimed role as \u2018Aida\u2019 in that show.  A producer decided she should be Simone when there were too many Lisa\u2019s in the cast.  She says, \u201cBroadway taught me to respect the stage and to take care of my instrument.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe was last on Broadway in 2003, the year her mother, Nina, died of breast cancer. She likes to refer to her mother as Dr. Nina Simone<\/span><\/a>, and the daughter stepped out of the spotlight at that time and allowed herself to grieve and handle matters associated with her mother\u2019s estate.  During that time she found musical charts and notes related to Nina\u2019s music that provided the inspiration for the new CD.  \u201cMy mother died alone … totally unaware of how much she was loved by the world.  It\u2019s important that we let our great one know how much we love them while they\u2019re alive.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA lot of people don\u2019t know who my mother was.  \u201cShe was a child prodigy, a musical genius, and an outspoken freedom fighter who stood up against the establishment, during the civil rights movement.\u201d  And she entertained audiences throughout her career \u201cwith her prowess at the piano, and her power on stage.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\nSimone will be accompanied by four musicians \u201cwho sound like ten.\u201d   And she adds, \u201cEighty percent of the songs I do, my mother performed.  I do them my own way…fans have told me there are many moments when you see my mother or hear my mother, and then there\u2019s me.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Thomas Zizzi | examiner.com Listening to Simone perform on her new CD \u201cSimone on Simone,\u201d and knowing she is the daughter of Nina Simone, one would never imagine that she was once a civil engineer in the U.S  Air Force.   \u201cMy wartime skill was identifying unexploded ordnance like in  \u201cHurt Locker\u201d  and calling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[729,730,740,741],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-past-shows","tag-nina-simone","tag-simone","tag-simone-concert","tag-simone-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}