On a quiet and tranquil day in 1976 at the 10th Montreux Jazz Festival, a very attentive audience in anticipation of one talented individual to grace the stage, the legendary singer, pianist and civil rights activist, Eunice Kathleen Waymon.

Legend Eunice Kathleen Waymon passed in 2003, her physical body has departed us but her immortal body of music lives on and is widely sampled/influenced by an en masse of artists.

A brother Common springs a light bulb with the single “Misunderstood” off the “Be” album released in 2005, sampling “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” from the 1964 album “Broadway-Blues-Ballads“. At this stage, one should know who Eunice Kathleen Waymon is.., none other than the well known by stage name Nina Simone.

Nina Simone [RIP] played at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976, here is the classic and poignant performance of “How it feels to be free” from her 1967 “Silk and Soul” album. Have a butchers and let it be known.

Nina Simone – “How it feels to be free” @ Montreux Jazz Festival