Singer/actress Simone, who took her mother's last name as her single stage name, was born Lisa Celeste Stroud, the daughter of singer Nina Simone and her manager-husband Andrew Stroud, in Mount Vernon, NY, on September 12, 1962. She grew up at first in Mount Vernon, then in New York City and North Carolina. After her parents' marriage broke up, she lived with her mother in Barbados and Liberia ...more























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