发生了什么,西蒙小姐?

发生了什么,西蒙小姐?探讨了动荡的生活和事业的偶像歌手和钢琴家尼娜西蒙。它表明她开始在小城镇的北卡罗莱纳,一个白人女子在她家里给她教训古典钢琴,而西蒙第一次经历了系统性的种族主义的“跨越铁轨”“白”小镇的一部分。它显示了种族主义直接改变了她的职业生涯在音乐当她被拒绝进入著名的费城音乐学院因为她的种族,以及她转向音乐来维持生计,从她的名字改变尤斯塔斯Waymon尼娜西蒙所以她母亲不会发现她在夜总会表演在新泽西。从那时起,她的职业生涯开始起飞,和她第一次在1958年,“棘鬣鱼,我爱你。”As her career continued to ascend, Simone met George, who would soon become both her husband and manager. The documentary shows how her career moved into a new direction after the assassination of Medgar Evers and the killing of four young Black girls in the church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. Beginning with the single "Mississippi Goddam," Simone took an increasingly passionate and militant stance as an artist and activist as the 1960s continued with more unrest, protests, and the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the midst of this, Simone struggled with the rigors of relentless touring, physical abuse from her husband, and increasingly erratic behavior that would now be viewed as mental illness. The documentary goes on to show how Simone left America for good, settling first in Liberia, then Switzerland, and then France, and how her career was once again on the upswing before her death in 2003.