Nina Simone, Piscean
“…To put it in the mildest terms, while she was an original, gifted, sometimes magical performer and an outspoken champion of civil rights, she was also a maddening, egomaniacal, deeply disturbed, rude, abusive, colossal pain in the, er, neck…”
This is from a review of Princess Noire but it’s funny as nearly every biography of anyone Piscean – eg; Nancy Cunard – mentions the same bonkers Piscean dichotomy.
Poor Nina. She tipped porridge in my lap after a press conference once because it wasn’t hot enough; regaled me because I ‘wasn’t black’ and ‘don’t know what it’s like to be oppressed’ (true, actually); and insisted on doing a pre-recorded radio interview from her bed while she lounged in her bathrobe having a pedicure. Craazzzyyy. But what a voice. RIP Miss Simone.
I actually think doing radio interviews from bed whilst having a pedicure makes TOTAL sense.
Multitasking.
I love her, saw her a while back live..she came across as a beautiful person. Then again we were paying customers, not white trash honkeys trying to get some dirt on the old dame.
Seems that dichotomy is not exclusive to Pisceans