Cedella Marley, Queen Ifrica and Etana are among the seven women nominated by the singer Medication Stephen Marley for his latest release, a seven-song Reggae EP called Celebrating Nina: A Reggae Award for Nina Simone.
The EP is scheduled to be released March 18 on the Ghetto Youths International label of the Marley family.
The eight-time Grammy Award winner, who is the second child of Bob and Rita Marley, said she chose to work not only with female artists on the project because they were not only strong and beautiful, but also because “their voices make Nina and Reggae works. established ”.
The seven-song EP features songs previously written or covered by Nina, seven of which are key numbers for the Who Colt The Game singer, who claims that her famous father "had seven sons".
The first EP song "Four Women", from Simone's 1966 album Wild Is the Wind, which was covered by Fyah Mumma Queen Ifrica, and her accompanying music video, was released on April 26 last year, in memory of the 1969 record Live Jazz icon. from the Berkley album. Queen Ifrica is a longtime fan of Nina Simone and her famous Jazz catalog and previously dealt with the late artist Mr. Bojangles.
The Four Women song was written by Nina in volume to expose the "racial system" and the plight of women in the United States of her time.
Two-time Reggae Grammy award winner Etana has covered Young, Gifted and Black, the second song on the EP, the song Nina was inspired to write, to raise black children after hearing African-American drama writer Lorraine Hansberry address a group of students as "Young, Gifted and Black."
Her older sister, Stephen Cedella Marley, was given the responsibility of covering Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, a song that Nina recorded earlier in 1964, and according to Stephen, "the song really suits Cedella (who) as the strongest woman in the male world. , sometimes incomprehensible ”.
"This project is about preserving Nina Simone's legacy, and passing it on to younger generations, including my children, because you don't often see music as that important," Marley told Billboard Magazine.
“When we started the project, we came to our daughter Nina (Lisa Simone Kelly) and Nina Simone Institute to establish a relationship; we want to contribute a portion of the revenue to the things he was concerned about, ”he explained.Simone, who was severely abused by her second husband, battled alcoholism and suffered for years from an undiagnosed emotional heart attack, she lost the battle against breast cancer on April 21, 2003. She asked in her will, that the gift of the remainder of his property to be released. fidelity to create charities to support black music education in Africa.
The EP also includes Usielezee written by Canadian singer Melanie Fiona and No Good Man by Terri Walker of England, both songs themselves were original versions of the 1960s love songs loved by renowned jazz singer Billie Holiday in the 1940s.
Here Comes The Sun, which Simone recorded in 1971 as the title track for her 13th studio album, was covered by Joss Stone, while Maya Azucena covered Mr. The very famous Bojangles, which was recorded by Simone in 1971.
According to the singer of Who Colt The Game, he started working on Nina Simone's honorary EP more than five years ago, and was inspired by his fascination with his work.
"Old music, artists like Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, speaks to my condition, my spirit," Stephen told Billboard.
"Because of the racism they faced years ago, you can hear the passion they had in finding their talent and the passion they put into their music, which is still very strong today," he added.
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