Her “penchant for the mundane renders her intensity as bogus as her mannered melismas” … a “middlebrow keyboard tickler”

Her “histrionic rolls insert unconvincing emotion into a song”

—The Village Voice

• Rejected by the Curtis Institute of Music—according to Simone, as a result of racial prejudice

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References:

• “21st greatest”
• “middlebrow”
• “histrionic rolls”