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WhatHappenedMissSimoneWhat Happened, Miss Simone is a direct quote from a Maya Angelou poem. “But what happened, Miss Simone? Specifically, what happened to your big eyes that quickly veil to hide the loneliness? To your voice that has so little tenderness, yet flows with your commitment to the battle of Life? What happened to you?”
Maya Angelou posed the question 45 years ago in an essay published in Redbook magazine, and it’s at the center of Liz Garbus’s powerful and brutally honest documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?

So what did happen to Eunice Kathleen Waymon, (Nina’s real name) the little girl from Tryon, North Carolina, who dreamed of becoming the first famous black classical pianist? A White woman (Mrs. Miller) who Nina’s mother (Mary Kate Waymon) worked for, heard Nina playing the piano and decided she was worthy of piano lessons, so she paid for Nina to take formal training from…

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