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Nina Simone's Tryon, NC, Home Sold to Artists

WUNC | By Phoebe Judge,
Jennifer Brookland
Published March 22, 2017 at 12:43 PM EDT
The house where jazz and soul legend Nina Simone was born and raised was recently purchased by four New York City-based artists.
Courtesy of BPR News
The house where jazz and soul legend Nina Simone was born and raised was recently purchased by four New York City-based artists.
The house where jazz and soul legend Nina Simone was born and raised was recently purchased by four New York City-based artists.
Credit Courtesy of BPR News
The house where jazz and soul legend Nina Simone was born and raised was recently purchased by four New York City-based artists.

In the 1930s and '40s, the community of Tryon, North Carolina supported local girl Eunice Waymon on her path to becoming a classical pianist. But she veered far from that trajectory, and eventually became an internationally-celebrated jazz and soul singer known as Nina Simone.

 Guest host Phoebe Judge talks with Blue Ridge Public Radio reporter Helen Chickering about Nina Simone's childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina.

The three-room wooden house Simone was born and raised in was preserved by community members and recently purchased by four New York City-based artists.

Guest host Phoebe Judge talks with Blue Ridge Public Radio reporter Helen Chickering about the house and its future.

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Phoebe Judge
Phoebe Judge is an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured on a numerous national radio programs. She regularly conducts interviews and anchors WUNC's broadcast of Here & Now. Previously, Phoebe served as producer, reporter and guest host for the nationally distributed public radio program The Story. Earlier in her career, Phoebe reported from the gulf coast of Mississippi. She covered the BP oil spill and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for Mississippi Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio. Phoebe's work has won multiple Edward R.Murrowand Associated Press awards. Phoebe was born and raised in Chicago and is graduate ofBennington Collegeand theSalt Institute for Documentary Studies.
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Jennifer Brookland
Jennifer Brookland is a temporary producer for The State of Things.
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