abstract:Simone Margaret Young AM (born 2 March 1961) is an Australian conductor. She was born in Sydney, of Irish ancestry on her father's side and Croatian ancestry on her mother's side.
Nina Simone was very young when her musical ability first appeared.
VOA: special.2009.10.04
The uninspired, generic Hollywood score often makes the premise feel preposterous rather than moving, but there are some high points, including a gorgeous Michael Hedges tune that gets passed off as an original by August (which he plays the first time he picks up a guitar) and a gospel number featuring a solo by the preternaturally gifted young singer Jamia Simone Nash.
Pleet, a 29-year-old designer who dresses indie bands such as the ethereal Au Revoir Simone and Dirty Projectors, knows her client: the cute, somewhat bookish, artsy young woman who lives in Brooklyn.