Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) (Live at Montreux, 1976)
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- Watch Nina Simone perform “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1976
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Music video by Nina Simone performing I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) (Live). © 2006 Montreux Sounds, S.A., under exclusive license to Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd.
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What is your favorite live performance from the High Priestess of Soul?
*Stars... they come and go*
Smart Monkey oh that was a beautiful rendition of Ian’s song - really really fitting
Mississippi Goddamn
I loves you Porgy will always take the cake
Can we please get the 1968 Montreux version of "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free"???
I could listen to this for the rest of my life.
Me too! :-)
Me too
I could listen to it even in death!!!!
Yessss!❤
@@mistyday1236
Me three
She's singing as though she's gazing out the window and hoping.
She's the best that's ever done it
exactly. hoping for something more.
They way you put it is so beautiful and poetic
there's no hope in her message. just pure freedom
She makes it look effortless, playing those keys...damn what a talent.
And singing at the same time too, just incredible.
I think of Hendrix voice, Ninas piano, MCcartneys bass and Jeff Buckleys guitar skills as all massively underrated because of their other skills.
@@DumbBaby ok but to be fair pauls probably one of our best memory writers ever so it makes sense for him
...and when you get towards 01:00..., just listen to the next chord... and that long pauseeeeee! Ohhhhhh u beauty!
I need not say anymore...
She was trained as a pianist at Juilliard, too.
the energy she puts into expressing black collective pain and her own pain with THE most crystal clear strength and beauty and talent is almost a form of kindness so many of us don't deserve. i wish in some ways she never had to burn so brightly in all that fear and darkness. love you forever, Simone
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@@fareshajjar1208 she literally talked about her experience as a black person and for you to say being black was an asset while she got death threats and ridiculed till her dying day because of her day features is mine bending. Her simple expressing that black people should me treated like human almost ruin her career and her didn’t get her money until her last decade. If you don’t know anything please-do everyone a favor and hush .
@@fareshajjar1208 Lol what? So let me get this straight your position is that you believe a poor black kid born in North Carolina during Jim Crow/segregation had more opportunities than the white kids in her town?? Do I need to explain why that's wrong? Also if your primary point is that the local piano teacher was kind enough to take Nina in as a student free of charge shows why Nina was given an opportunity most other kids would not have got, then I agree. But if you're using this one argument to show how Nina somehow had more opportunities than white kids (again during Jim Crow) then you are being completely disingenuous because you are not bringing up all the opportunities the white kids had that Nina did not. Also if you are using the argument to show why Nina's blackness gave her a "HUGE" advantage then you are again wrong. The teacher didn't take Nina in because she was black, she took her in because she was talented. Also no pain from being black??? The reason Nina is performing at montruex (which is in Switzerland) in this video is because she was essentially black listed from radio in the US after releasing "Mississippi Goddamn." in an attempt to essentially ruin her career/silence her. Keep in mind that radio was the heart of the music industry in the 60s/70s. This, along with the treatment of the civil rights protests, made Nina decide to leave the US and move to Africa. If you still don't believe me that a part of Ninas pain derived from racism then listen to "Backlash Blues" from this exact same concert.
Her pain translates into beauty
❤️
She is the embodiment of cathartic release. The release of all emotion to purge out every pent up aggression, sadness, joy etc. This woman is timeless
she was more appreciated outside the USA...even lived in The Netherlands and France where locals became her friends and embraced her till her death...what a QUEEN
Same with the blues legends. Racist USA, civil rights era..
In Switzerland too
Because she was an angry woman They didn’t like her in the United States
@@johnboys4697
You mean because she was a BLACK WOMAN!
BLACK women are not angry 😤
@@edwardquaye8312 so you’re saying black women can’t be angry
"Everybody should be free...because if we ain't, we're murderous". Quite!
ok, I thought she said "we murder us". You're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong
@@janinge8696 haha. But that doesn't really make sense - it's ungrammatical, and why would we want to kill ourselves? You could be right, but I think "murderous" makes more sense. ;)
@@CathyKitson i take it both ways and anyways grammar is a fools idea. In these hoods we're forced into, children do take eachothers lives.
@@riahoodlum5698 That's true. It could be either.
@@CathyKitson it is make sense we murder are self inside the soul.
It’s because of videos like this that I’m grateful for TH-cam otherwise I probably would never see this. 🤩☺️
You're absolutely nailing it!
Yesss it's amazing
I know the artist's estates should release wonderful gems for fans to purchase on video.
Internet is probably the greatest tool invented by humanity, easy to forget its immense value when you hear about the ways it’s used for harm. We must remember the good times had.
2024 and I’m glad there’s almost 3 million views for this epic performance.
It's impossible to listen to Nina Simone without feeling all of the feels! This woman was pure raw emotion. An activist through her music. An intense genius!
Rare that use of the language at your level.
Nina is always about peace and freedom.
I'm a 24 year old man my eyes got wet by looking at her,
Her passion and her voice is extremely beautiful.
She's art.
I will always love HIGH PRIESTESS OF SOUL.
A song that’ll turn a “tough guy” into a weeping infant! I speak from experience!!!
Brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to this song 😂. The song's lyrics/message, combined with her expressive performance reaches down into your soul to pull up powerful, beautiful, and dark experiences all at the same time. Wow! Thank you for this performance Nina Simone. Rest in peace 🙏🏾.
Wow!! Why didn't the world change for the better immediately after Nina Simone sang this?!! She's so incredible! Still important to listen to today (2020).
Especially now!
At least somebody gave it a listen respect Rebecca Edwards share it with your friends and family let's get this heard for Nina's sake she would appreciate highly In my opinion. Spread the love not hate only for those who oppress the masses
@@moe42o especially especially now!
Why now? Black people have all the rights, even preferential treatment.
@@skypekai they have the rights but are still badly mistreated sometimes. More than white people. They still deserve justice you know... equality...
LYRICS:
*
I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains of steel binding me
I wish I could say all the things that I can say when I'm relaxed
I'm restarting anew
*
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky (don't leave me)
How sweet it would be to find that I could fly
I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea
Then I'd sing because I know how it feels to be free
Then I'd sing because I know how it feels to be free
*
I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart
I wish I could break all things that bind us apart
I wish you could know what it means to be me
And you'd see, you'd agree
everybody should be free (because if we ain't we're murderers)
*
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I could find that I could fly
I'd soar to the sun, look down at the sea
Man, I know, yes I know
Oh yeah, the spirit is moving now
[humming]
*
I know, got news for you, I already know
Jonathan Livingston Seagull ain't got nothing on me
Free, free, free, free
I'm free, and I know it
Don't wanna be a
And I show it
But I'm still free
And believe in me, it's alright
*
And I'd sing, sing, sing
Cause I would know
I already know
I already know
I found out
how it feels
not to be chained
to anything
to any race
to any faith
to anybody
to any creed
to any hopes
to any-anything
I know how it feels to be free
(stolen from a comment on an older video of this performance)
Ti stihovi su me pogodili.
That was me typing it out and posting it in another upload of this performance, thanks for the mention
Thanks for the lyrics
*Chains that (are) still binding me
*'Cos if we ain't we're murderous
Love
The message in this songs is a timeless masterpiece. It still resonates strongly in april 2021.
Here in April 2021 as well🥰
her message gets more powerful with time. she deserved so much more in her lifetime. the world is a cruel place, built on disturbing power structures that refuse credit to some of the most amazing, gifted and genuinely kind individuals that have existed.
Stopped by December 2021 - I agree Inno
Xmas 2021, resonating more and more...
July 2023, as well, and, I fear, in 2033 and beyond, too, if we don't wake up.
"everybody should be free cuz if we ain't we're murderers"
what badass a line
💯
let's not overlook what an incredible piano player she is. so tasteful and swinging hard.
When she said, “Spirit is moving now”, I could feel that! You can just feel it.
I love r&b, soul, blues, funk 🥳🥳
When she’s just humming the melody after she says that... you can see how she feels it
Powerful soul she is the whole world should listen to what she is saying. Now more than ever
bro, im buzzin here right now from that
@@lewishowe2285 amen
Shivers down the spin and tears to the eye. An incredible, life-changing performance.
I watched it yesterday first time, Im blown away can't stop listening to this live
For me..it truly was last year when I found this gem...Life changing...😊
I've just came across this lady, and Im amazed at this talent voice and playing, she was so relaxed
❣️
I second that @Kathryn
One of the greatest live performances I’ve ever seen. Just showed my 3 year old son.
The "eyes" say it all for me - she means it, and she was right and still, unfortunately, very relevant today, some over 40 years later! Keep playing it!
a timeless message, social change is slow, so we repeat one thing like dylan-how many times can a man pretend he does not see?
Be afraid... very afraid... I tell you there is reason to be. I have seen what is to come. I do not know the exact day or hour but something wicked brewing soon will boil and we whose eyes are wide open must not shut them in fear and we must not turn away from those we mean to embrace even when they and many it will seem at first turn against us because they have more reason to be afraid. Know who you are. Know the truth to be known. Know what you know not. Know all cannot not be known. Be afraid but be bold. Fear has a friend in faith. Believe in the restoration of humanity as a people of many varieties like facets of a gem. We are beautiful together. This is not politics or religion and I'm not claiming super powers. However any may respond, I have no more to say here. Be well, one and all. I love every human, even those who despise me for I believe in the potential of the human spirit until the moment it is extinguished, but I do not entertain affection for the person shaped by a character built of repeatedly practiced conscious habits of immorality that violate the dignity or worse of others even in the context of having been amply provided for, instructed and guided in development that would allow moral correction. So, whoever you are, reader, my love to you.
@@mollyjaynecallisse2576
that's bold.
And a HARD truth to live.
Live well.
Love well.
She’s almost detached when playing the piano..
So effortless
Brilliant artist
Can’t. Be. Touched.
Does anyone else get moved to tears with this one? lol
At one of the darkest times of my life, a mentor of mine recommended this song to me and ever since it has changed my life. I cry every time when I watch this video. Miss Simone was such a beautiful soul that burned so bright.
There was absolutely no one like Nina Simone.
They way she stood up at the end... like she just gave everything she had.
What a phenomenal woman!!!
N she did! She knew she killed it!
They played this as we entered my aunts funeral & it hit hard 😢 wish we could be free like her from so many pains & trials of life
I just heard about Nina Simone about 2 months ago!! I watched a documentary on Netflix!!What an amazing pianist and singer !! I think she felt strapped down by her abusive husband that only thought about money!! I wish she would have played Carnegie Hall as a classical piano player!! That was her dream for most of her life!!
My obsession with Nina Simone surprises me sometimes. ♡♡♡♡
Same♥♥
its what genius does to you. u are like wtf is going on here?
@Wylde Wylde interesting. i saw a comment from ''soccer'' magazine commenting on a messi goal against getafe ''geniuses are capable of anything'' nina simone was in genius category.
I’m telling u
Every since I’ve discovered her beautiful n most irrelevant music
I’m totally obsessed with her
She’s a G.O.A.T. Period ✊🏿🥺💔💔💔💔
It doesn't surprise me. She's amazing.
She was so uniquely beautiful to me.
Definitely an internal beauty.
Black women possess unique beauty
@@keyboarddancers7751 external beauty, you’re blind
@@togbeosagyefo8705 I'm not blind although my sight is in fact extremely limited (I have to wear contact lenses AND glasses). Nina Simone possessed a unique and *beautiful* talent which I try in some small measure to replicate (🤣) with my modest piano playing ability. However my aesthetic tastes regarding women (like most men I suspect) are *NOT* universal - in other words, there is no fundamental code or standard for beauty to which anybody is obliged to adhere.
It's impossible to listen to Nina Simone without feeling the feelings! This woman was pure raw emotion. An activist through her music. An intense genius!
The energy she puts into expressing black collective pain and her own pain with THE most crystal-clear strength and beauty and talent is almost a form of kindness so many of us don't deserve. I wish in some ways she never had to burn so brightly in all that fear and darkness.
She is singing about total freedom and that's just marvelous. Lord. She didn't settle for less than the best for she knew the ravages of racist and sexist oppression. Thank you Lord for each and every human you send near us, thanks so much for all those trembling hearts, eager to do good among so many indifferent and greedy hearts...Nina Simone, your heart was strong and so fragile, pushed so many times to the edge but you kept countenance and composure and kept fighting, while your exhausted, frightened and devastated soul, like the souls of so many oppressed Afrorelated humans, was doing its best to cope with the racial terror of those and our days.
a song that is not particularly sad but it makes tears flow so easily
I find it impossibly sad.
I wish I knew how to say the things I can say when I’m relaxed, I felt that
makes me weep every time i hear her say
"Don't lead me" she is listening to everyone while playing her part perfectly
I think it's: "Don't leave me" - she's finding her way into this audience and beseeching them to follow her. But "Don't lead me" is just as likely: an admonishment to her drummer not to push the beat.
@@lukeslark It's hard to tell, but it seems like the drummer was slightly rushing till the "don't lead me" part. I'm not all that sure, but if you're playing in such an intimate duo it's intuition to tell when someone is rushing before it's noticeable to the listener.
Masterful.
I thought I heard “don’t leave me” which was in reference to her singing about the bird in flying the sky. Like “don’t leave me”... I want to fly too. Just a thought.
@@tonyb.3796 that’s whati always thought too
How can so much beauty emanate from just one person?
Damn! The ending gives me chills. Unfortunately these lyrics are just as relevant today as they were when she performed this in '76.
What?! How could they not be relevant? It's not about race, it's a human thing! Freedom!
2.52 everybody should be free cause if we aint we are murderers. #truth
Good to point that out!
Is not the "american" government a bunch of murderers?? The military, the police, the hospitals, the cdc's (Centers for disease creation), the red Cross, fema, know it!
Our freedom is within us! We are more powerful than we think we are; google "chakras" our spiritual body we've been ignoring or we did not know about them. Time to know and power up!
Guns, rioting, war, protesting, writing books is not the answer. Knowing your true self, looking within and following your heart and intuition is the way to go.
Peace and Love to all❤️💕
HEALING WISDOM TRUTH JOY
U heard that right... Something to think about.. She so deep w her songs
Chills
Goddamn I’m tearing up this is powerful
Wow what a song major fan you can feel her pain through ever lyric n through every pore n her eyes what a life ,awful produced beautiful music every one of them her cover of I put a spell on you ,there's soo many got most of her albums never tires
I felt it when she stroke the note at 2:45
Roman Robinson I feel you, bruh. I feel every note that she strikes-and it’s brilliant.
It reverberates through your very soul in the best way possible.
The fact that there are people out there that think people of a different color are different or inferior blows my mind.
I love you, no matter who you are, or what you think of me.
I agree. It really doesn’t matter what you look like! But- in the recent comments I saw someone say “Since when they grow legs at Hershey’s!” And “All that chocolate running wild!” That’s a disgusting thing to say. Shame on who said that. Someone sharing their experiences to change the world for the better is still judged by what she was trying to be free. Shame!
Happy heavenly 88th birthday to Nina Simone, who made her mark as a classical, folk, Jazz, Blues singer, also known as the voice of Civil rights in the 60s as she wrote music & songs dedicated to the
movement
The NC gospel influence is everything on this song. She had the most unique alto voice that easily slips to levels of baritone. Genius. RIP Nina. ...you are free now.
Damn she could play that there piano!
she trained at a very prestigus music school as a european music pianist, but chose to play BLACK MUSIC
There is no black and white music, there’s no race music. It’s music. Enjoy it, don’t look at the race, look at the talent
@@tesmith47 Actually she loved Classical above all. She had her opportunity for a scholarship denied to her because of the color of her skin and was forced to play jazz to pay for her school. It was also there she began to sing. She was one of the most brilliant composers of the 20th century and blended white and black musical tradition in ways that cannot be duplicated. She was beyond comprehension with her talent.
@@tonyv2373yes, she played EUROPEAN music too
@@klord3677 that is a delusion, ALL MUSIC IS "RACE" MUSIC !! Whites society try to assign grades!!
This is equally beautiful and heartbreaking
I have listened to this here on Earth, and surely will continue to listen to it in the next world. What a bomb, and as cool as she is, it comes out naturally….🎹 It resonates with me well as a middle age South African black dude who grew up under Apartheid. My father used to listen to this master piece every Sunday morning before we went to the Old Apostolic Church …..🎹
this might just be the best song ive ever heard
What a PURE performance. Pure joy, pure light. Just smooth and weightless.
oh Nina... We LOVE you!
2021... we are still here!
I've just been turned on to Nina Simone. Well, I just now decided to give her a listen. I've heard of her but never gave her an opportunity to carve out a place in my soul. I'm glad I rectified that mistake from youth.
Same here
Congratulations! 😋 She's amazing!
I’m 77. I was a young teenager when a friend of mine decided that I had to get to know about Nina Simone. He made me listen manager. to I loves you Porgy over and over again until I got it. Been a fan ever since. Every payday I would go to Smith’s record store on St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans and buy one of her albums. The last time she toured, she came to the Mahalia Jackson theatre in Armstrong (Louis) . I was working at the post office and couldn’t get off. When my shift ended, I went there anyway, and since the box office was no longer manned, I got in free. After she finished, I went to give my price of admission to her.
She sent me a post card that I still have. She said, “You heard my real message.” As fortune would have it, I sat behind my friend, Billy Estavan, who’d originally turned me on to her. That was the last time I ever saw him, as he died of aid soon after.
Nina's got those perfect piano hands. I was born with a drummers hands but have always wanted to play some jazz on a Steinway :-)
If you find out someone listens to Nina Simone you should instantly become friends with them you can't go wrong
With every sound of her voice, she strings in my heart and soul.
Mine too
What a grand woman.
I put on this every time i have breakfast
Way superior to the original version
She out did herself with this performance
And we are all richer for it
AbsoLUTELY!!!!
Oh shit! Hell of an ending
"Not to be chained to any race, any faith....anything" She 100% understood and was free. So Beautiful 💜🦋💜🦋💜
this song always sounds like a summer breeze with butterflies on fields to me
this song getting over a million in less than a year gives me hope that there are still some Real Music fans out there. the constant close up shot - you can just see that this Art flows through Nina. Ms Nina, Thank you for sharing your Art with the world. we're blessed. Love Ms Nina S.
Such a powerful performance. Touched my soul 🙏
Check her history Prodigy.
@@margarethcarmo9654 thank you. I've actually got to know and see who she truly was.
Literally drowned myself into her music one day. Was in awe the whole time
First time I've realised a song could move your spirit like that. She actually transports you along with her. Mesmerizing!
😊THANK GOD for TH-cam. Ninas musical brilliance lives on. she was deep!!! an amazing piano player & song writer.
That face! Just don't need to say anything. The most beautiful face. I'm an asian so I can't really undertand the deeper meaning of this song. However I just know what she felt while she is sining this song. What a legen.
Freaking wonderful.
How powerful it is to recognise oneself, and what an honor to witness someone express that of themselves 🌻
Très jolie compliment d un français et nous on si connaît en compliment 💐🌺🌷
@@emiliogarcia4976🙏💚
An amazing manifesto of every human who if FREE
I once called Diana Ross the original black diva. I humbly apologize.
I consider the original to be Billie Holiday. And then Nina comes in second.
@@benjaminjackson9449 its all a matter of opinions and its nice to be able to share opinions without name calling and abusive statements. Thank u.
Wendell Williams I didn’t mean to offend you. Billie, Diana, and Nina are black legends and deserve the utmost respect.
@@benjaminjackson9449 I appreciated ur comment and wasn't offended. I love them all. I just feel like that The Supremes, as artist and Holland Dozier Holland as writers don't get the respect they deserve.
I was verbally attacked 4 my opinion earlier and was just saying thank u for ur respectful input.
Everytime I play this, my spirit grows stronger, more expansive, and soars! Magnificent performance.
My fave is "Sinnerman"! Nina has been my Queen of Soul for so many years!! Back in 1966 ....when I was just returning home from a military base
.I was introduced to Nina Simone! There will never be another like her!!
Happy Birthday Nina ! Remember you always !
Spirit's Moving Now 🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
This is just too beautiful. Something poignant about it.
There is such subtle angst in her vocals and cleverly done but its so powerful and angry pure power
I hope that comes across as its meant
Absolute genius
That was so powerful! When she got up at the end was like she channelled every ancestor and brought them back to live....Jheez I felt that deep!
Such a nice surprise! I wasn't expecting to listen to this music today. Happiness is in the simplest things in life!
I know exactly how this beautiful woman felt! I wish I would have known her in person. Both of us know how it feels how it feels to be called ugly and to be chained by our believes to want to be free to give free to show caring, understanding and compassion to all. I'm not the same pigment skin color but I am the same in how she felt
I heard this for the first time and I feel for all those people in history during slavery. This can hit differently for everyone, but looking at her and hearing every word, its making a different impact. What a mess we had in history..and sadly today as well in some parts of world.
If I could play like this and sing like this and express like this I would be in musical Nirvana.
Hail Nina 🌟
At 27, I just got to know this lady how wonderful
Relevant then… and still relevant now
Watching her perform live brings tears to my eyes
How a song that makes me feel so happy can simultaneously bring tears to my eyes...therein lies the power of music.
Miss Nina non posso dire quale sia la sua performance più gradita...anche perché lei ha il dono di non suonare mai allo stesso modo un suo brano....io l adoro ❤❤❤❤❤
I wish todays music could resonate like these old jazzy blues......then we would know how it feels to be free....
I've seen her perform this song in so many different ways and I love them all. Love you, Queen. 👑👑👑
Why isn't this woman recognized as a genius virtuoso in the same league as men such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, etc. ??
Isn't she? When I hear of the greats, I hear of Simone.
Because she's a Black woman
She is
because she didn’t have the hits
I think she is dude. Its The Nina Simone!!
What an amazing blessing and damned curse to have such talent that it ultimately destroys you. This world doesn’t deserve someone like Nina. Rest in peace ❤
Long life to all who LOVE what they do! 🤩❤
Oh Nina, rest in peace. Your art and spirit still move us so deeply every day.
Nina Simone was an icon! her voice pass by my veins and I can feel the brightly revolutionary energy she left behind on earth and it's available for us. love you nina.
this performance is so hard to get through without crying
She was way ahead of her time.
She was right on time. Born to musically protest racial injustice in America.
Nina is one of the few performers who can bring a tear to my eyes.
She plays it so easy and light as a feather, but for me her voice and piano sounds stronger than any metal on this earth.
We can feel the strength, vulnerability, struggle, sorrow, courage, genius, joy, compassion, entrapment...
Thanks youtube to let me listen and see these genious of the music performing. She was not from this world. Love you, Nina Simone. Thanks for your legacy.
Oh My God... I Appreciate you Ms. NINA SIMONE... I Absolutely Love this Woman..."I'm Free and I Know it".❣💞🖤🖤🖤🥰🥰💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
THE GREATEST PIANIST IN HER TIME! Mississippi Goddamn!
So much sass, so much soul. A blessing as a whole.
Goosebumps and tears everytime