Nina Simone - Stars / Feelings (Medley / Live at Montreux, 1976)

I've literally never seen someone be this real. In public. To music. Where have I been all this time? I'm crying.

After watching her documentary this video has a whole new meaning dimension. She was in so much pain at this time, suffering with bipolar disorder. It was her first concert in many years, she mustered all her strength to be on the stage because she needed it for the money. You can see how tired she wa, yet flawlessly performing and being extremely authentic

Oooh children, this is a true storyteller. The face, the voice, the emotion, this is perfection. It translates beyond song to life. Thank you, Ms. Simone

Whole room terrified and mesmerized by her power

Watching someone “in the zone,” as she clearly was, is a spiritual experience. This is sublime.

The fact that the “i wish i’ve never lived this long” line wasn’t even an original lyric by Morris Albert makes this just extra emotional and intense.

When a musical performance has no intent, no aim to go from point A to point B, when it's not trying to be anything other than what it is, when the listener can't tell the singing and the storytelling apart, when the moment is the only thing there is, when the artist does not get in the way of the music, when you're not sure if you're being led off a cliff or up the throne of Zeus on Mount Olympus, that is where magic lives. Nina Simone is all of that and more — terrifying and beautiful.

I have been revisiting this version of Feelings frequently, still can't believe Nina could bring this cheesy tune to this level of complex emotions. She understand pain, and she stares right at the people who are loosing humanities and shook their dying soul. After that powerful speech, all they did was laugh. This version of the song is even more relevant now when things declined drastically from the 70s, we are all happy to plug into varies kind of 'machines' and 'systems'. I wish I have that ability as a musician, this is what we all should try to achieve, making people feel. Thank you Nina Simone.

I was there for this performance. She was awesome.

the older i get the more surreal it feels to know that i was there that night but i was and never forgot one second of it⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"I wish i never lived this long" Devastating 😭😭😭😭

Because of how soulful she sang u sometimes forget she was a classically trained pianist.... that jazz...blues .... where her second and third musical languages.... she spoke all of them so fluently.....so beautifully...... #FromTheSoul

Imagine how dead and empty your soul must be to thumbs down this video......

How am I just learning about this beautiful soul at age 32?? Why is this not apart of our basic education? Currently in tears...

I cried throughout this performance. I don’t even remember the last time I cried, let alone for being touched by art, not because something is going on in my life. I feel so alive now! We are so lucky to have had Nina

6 years ago, I experienced a major depression that almost cost my life because of unbearable heartbreak and loss, I never thought I would be able to make it through after that, all thanks to this. I always come back to this video of Nina Simone. As if the song she's singing is saying, "I feel you, and it's OK" ❤️

"Ayy girl... Sit down!" If you wonder what story those eyes tell... I recommend netflix documentary about Nina "What happened Ms. Simone". It's great!

When you have seen the end of this video, you know that Nina Simone didn't ask people to listen. She made people to listen.

She died alone in Paris ...my tortured darling RIP I often think of you xxxxxx.....this is pure ab lib no rehearsal...Janice jopplin...billie they are,all there with her

The audience just doesn't understand how important they are because the unison in the last part of that song was just downright beautiful