1950  
Juilliard School of Music  

1954  
Nina takes a job as singer-pianist in the Midtown Bar and Grill in Atlantic City  

1957  
December(?): first recording session with Bethlehem  

1958  
Marries with Don  Ross  
Little Girl Blue (Bethlehem)  

1959  
Get divorced with Don Ross  
And Her Friends (Bethlehem)  
The Amazing (Colpix)  
September 12, debut concert at Town Hall  

1960  
At Town Hall (Colpix)  
September 9, at the Ed Sullivan Show (source: The Sullivan Years liner notes)  

1961  
December 4, marries with Andy Stroud  
At Newport (Colpix)  
Forbidden Fruit (Colpix)  
December 20, concerts in Lagos, Nigeria with Randy Weston, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and other artists and intellectuals under AMSAC sign  

1962  
Her husband becomes her manager  
At The Village Gate (Colpix)  
Sings Ellington (Colpix)  
September 12, Lisa Celeste Stroud is born  

1963  
May 12, Carnegie Hall  
June 11, Jackson, Mississippi, murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers (bio)  
September 15, Birmingham, Alabama, murder of four black school children (bio)  
Nina composes "Mississippi Goddam".  
First mixed-race concert at Miles College, Birmingham  
At Carnegie Hall (Colpix)  
Nina's Choice (Colpix)  

1964  
March 21, Carnegie Hall  
October 15, Martin Luther King received his Nobel Peace Prize  
Folksy Nina (Colpix)  
In Concert (Philips)  
Broadway-Blues-Ballads (Philips)  

1965  
Europe Tour (biography)  
Montreux Jazz Festival?  
Antibes Jazz Festival  
January 15, Concert at Carnegie Hall  
March, Selma-to-Montgomery march  
I Put A Spell On You (Philips)  

1966  
With Strings (Colpix)  
Pastel Blues (Philips)  
Let It All Out (Philips)  
Wild Is The Wind (Philips)  
Cosby tour  

1967  
February, finish of the Cosby tour  
Sings the Blues (RCA)  
Silk &Soul (RCA)  
High Priestess of Soul (Philips)  

1968  
April 4, Martin Luther King murdered in Memphis  
April 7, Westbury Music Fair 
Tour in Europe with Doris Duke (Penguin)  
June 16, Montreux festival  
(Nina's participations at the Montreux Festival, also here)  

1969  
A Very Rare Evening (PM)  
And Piano! (RCA)  
'Nuff Said (RCA)  
To Love Somebody (RCA)  
The Best Of (Philips)  
Festival d'Antibes-Juan Les Pins (with Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker)  

1970  
March, Concert in Newark, Ney Jersey  
14 December, Interview with Arthur Taylor for Notes and Tones  
Black Gold  

1971  
Divorce from husband/manager Andy Stroud  
Here Comes the Sun (RCA)  
Gifted & Black (RCA)  
The Best of (RCA)  

1972  
October, Concert at Kennedy Center, Washington  
Emergency Ward! (RCA)  

1974  
It Is Finished, last RCA album  

1975  
The Great Show Live in Paris  

1976  
Leaves Liberia  
July 3, Montreux festival
Earshot Jazz Festival in Paris (video Love Sorceress released in 1998)

1977  
Berkeley Concert  
Lamentations  
December: Concert at London's Drury Lane Theatre, meets Creed Taylor (CTI)  

1978  
January: Baltimore, Brussels  
September: interview with Britain's Blues & Soul magazine  
Arrested for withholding taxes in 1971-73  

1979  
Early in year leaves Israel  

1980  
July, 18: Rising Sun  
Cry Before I Go  
Paris, Pigalle, Le Trois Maillets  
Putsch in Liberia  

1981  
Summer: Concert in Southern France  
Anthony Sannucci  

1982  
January: Fodder On My Wings  

1983  
"Though I include jazz in what I do, I am not a jazz pianist at all." she told a New York Times interviewer in 1983 (After Hours)  

1984  
November, 17: Live at Ronnie Scott's  

1985  
Nina's Back (Singleton)  

1986  
Nina's Shameless Magic  
Concert at Boston, Symphony Hall ("Nina Simone's late, late onstage arrival at the 1986 program at Symphony Hall. While the audience patiently waited, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard played the equivalent of two long sets in an attempt to cover her absence. As performance indicated, she should have stayed at the hotel." Ernie Santosuosso, History of the Boston Globe's Jazz & Blues Festival.)

1987  
Let It Be Me  
Chanel No 5  
Live & Kickin (Videopix, Singleton)  
July 10, Montreux festival  

1988  
(?) Raymond Gonzalez  

1989  
The Iron Man, "Fast Food"  
(?) Nimwegen, Holland  
Concert in Milano, Italy  

1990  
(?) Amsterdam  
July 13, Montreux festival  

1991  
January, 21: Martin Luther King Birthday Parade  
Bouc-Bel- Air near Aix-en-Provence  
Autobiography: I Put a Spell on You  

1992  
Adelaide Festival  

1993  
A Single Woman  
Point of No Return  

1994  
August 20: A concert in Lörrach, Germany is cancelled (nervous breakdown)  

1995  
August, 25: Nina Simone given a suspended eight-month jail term  

1997  
June 28, Weimar, Germany (Kunstfest Weimar)  
July 2, Villingen, Germany (VS Swingt '97)  
July 4, Hamburg, Germany (Jazz Festival of Hamburg)  
July 15, Nice, France (Nice Jazz Festival)  
July 25, The Bourbon Street Music Club - Sao Paulo, Brazil  
July 27, "Praca de Paz" - Ibirapuera Park - Sao Paulo, Brazil  
December 14, Barbican Center, London, England  
December 18, Congress Hall, Warsaw, Poland  

1998
August 8, Baalbek, Lebanon Baalbeck International Festival 1988
August 21, Seattle, Washington, US Summer Nights at the Pier 1998
August 30, Newark, New Jersey, US, New Jersey Performing Arts Center - Prudential Hall
September 18, Thessalonica, Greece
October 28, Brighton, UK, The Center
November 20, Basel, Switzerland 
December 14, London, UK, The Royal Albert Hall

1999
March 7, Manchester, England
March 9, Liverpool, England
April 10, Brighton, England
July 1, London, England
July 24, Dublin, Ireland
July 27, Lucerne, Switzerland
August 13, La Grand Motte, France

2000
April 13, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Via Funchal
April 16, Sao Pauolo, Brazil, Bourbon Street Music Club
April 19, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ATL Hall / Metropolitan
May 26, Atlanta, GA (USA) Chastain Amphitheater
May 30, Washington DC (USA) DAR Constitution Hall
June 2, New York, NY (USA) Beacon Theatre
June 7, Boston, MA (USA) FleetBoston Pavilion
June 10, Philadelphia, PA (USA) Tower Theater
June 18, Chicago, IL (USA) Oriental Theater
June 22, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Wiltern Theater
June 26, Denver, CO (USA) Temple Buell Theater
August 9, Marciac, France Marciac Jazz Festival
October 30, Austin, TX (USA) Bass Auditorium
November 3, Ann Arbor, MI (USA) Hill Auditorium
November 8, Miami, FL (USA) Gusman Center
November 13, San Francisco, CA (USA) Davies Symphony Hall
November 19, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Wiltern Theater

2001
June 8, Paris, France, Palais des Congres
June 23, Washington DC (USA) Constitution Hall
June 28, New York City, NY (USA) Carnegie Hall (JVC Jazz Festival)
July 3, Portland, OR (USA) Arlene Schnitzer Hall
July 7, Saratoga, CA (USA) MountainWinery
July 11, Oakland, CA (USA) Paramount Theater
July 15, Los Angeles, CA (USA) GreekTheater
July 19, Chicago, IL (USA) Chicago Theater
July 23, Seattle, WA (USA) Benaroya Concert Hall
July 27, Detroit, MI (USA) Fox Theater
August 26, Clyst St Mary, Exeter (UK) Bishopstock Festival

?
Lakeside Blues Festival  
Concert in Toscana, Italy  
Festa dell'Unità, Italy  

2003
April 21, Nina died in Carry-le-Rouet, France.

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