" For 10 points, name this female singer-songwriter who performed the Lorraine Hansberry-adapted "To Be Young, Gi7ted and Black" and the protest anthems "Four Women" and "Mississippi Goddam."
The title song of this musician's 3rst album, adapted from Richard Rodgers, opens with improvisations on "Good King Wenceslas" before instructing the listener to "count your raindrops." This musician's cover of Kurt Weill's "Pirate Jenny" changes the setting to a "crummy southern town" suddenly attacked by a "Black Freighter." This one-time Juilliard student wedged a segment of Bach's Fugue in C Major into the middle of the song "Love Me or Leave Me." The slave aunt Sarah and the mixed-race Safronia are two of the title speakers of one of this musician's songs. A thoughtless Vernon Jordan question prompted the response "Motherfucker, I AM civil rights" from this musician, who opened a song inspired by Medgar Evers' murder with the lines "Alabama's gotten me so upset, Tennessee made me lose my rest." For 10 points, name this female singer-songwriter who performed the Lorraine Hansberry-adapted "To Be Young, Gi7ted and Black" and the protest anthems "Four Women" and "Mississippi Goddam."
The title song of this musician's 3rst album, adapted from Richard Rodgers, opens with improvisations on "Good King Wenceslas" before instructing the listener to "count your raindrops."
Nina Simone