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public. It is easy to attack children, they are small and depend on you.’
Nina’s death in 2003, aged 70, unleashed family resentments and a battle in courts across America over her multi-million-pound estate.
‘Ugly truths have come out and relationships have died because people treated me as a commodity,’ Lisa tells me.
‘Too many people had ulterior motives.’
Throughout her life Lisa, a professional singer and musician, was dragged across the world by her mother.
When she complained or refused, she was blackmailed and beaten. It is a mark of her erratic and peripatetic life that she had 13 governesses by the age of seven, was working at ten and was her mother’s chauffeur by 12. She walked out at 14 after a beating.
Nina refused to support her career in the U.S. Air Force or her entry into music, and disinherited Lisa from her will.
‘I’d like to think if she had taken two seconds to think about her behavior she would have done things differently but I’m not sure.
‘My mother was angry with the world and often the only person around to blame was me.
Throughout her life Lisa was dragged across the world by her mother:
‘When my parents were together my mother was more giving and open but with the divorce she turned into someone you didn’t want to know.
‘I had nothing to do with my father before his death.’
That father, Andy Stroud, who Nina married in 1961, died in 2012.
A former detective, he was a muscular, handsome but a violent
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And you her only daughter Give her no peace in Death, to call her a monster is intolerable and disrespectful. as you live your life in anger, what ever you went through in life was how it was intended to be, where is your father, he’s is the monster, where is the step dad or other family members, Many Black women growing up in that era suffer greatly not just in the music industry, many were servants and housekeepers. I don;t get you at all, this article does Nina or any of the Black mother of this era and justice in death. You seem to be quite selfish at this point if you feel you Deserved something you should have exhausted enougn love that you never mentioned in to your mother, you are old enough to understand and stop blaming.
And you her only daughter Give her no peace in Death, to call her a monster is intolerable and disrespectful. as you live your life in anger, what ever you went through in life was how it was intended to be, where is your father, he’s is the monster, where is the step dad or other family members, Many Black women growing up in that era suffer greatly not just in the music industry, many were servants and housekeepers. I don;t get you at all, this article does Nina or any of the Black mother of this era and justice in death. You seem to be quite selfish at this point if you feel you Deserved something you should have exhausted enougn love that you never mentioned in to your mother, you are old enough to understand and stop blaming.
This was so painful to read. I totally loved Nina and I listen to her music today. I hate when children air their dirty laundry. Your mom is gone. I am sure there was some love somewhere. If you can just remember that and hold on to it, then you can forgive your mother. Think about it please.
This was so painful to read. I totally loved Nina and I listen to her music today. I hate when children air their dirty laundry. Your mom is gone. I am sure there was some love somewhere. If you can just remember that and hold on to it, then you can forgive your mother. Think about it please.
This was just awful to read I love Nina Simone music and still listen to her music today I hope her daughter will find forgiveness in her heart for her mom and move forward without bitterness
This was just awful to read I love Nina Simone music and still listen to her music today I hope her daughter will find forgiveness in her heart for her mom and move forward without bitterness