On July 3rd, 1976, #ninasimone gave what has often been called the most memorable appearance in the history of Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival — part musical performance and part personal monologue that at times felt like diary entries being enacted on stage. In this clip Nina reminds us that her initial dream in life was to become a classical pianist but instead in the early 1950s she was forced to sing in order to keep a job she’d taken to support herself and her family, thus beginning a