Less than a week after her last Nina Simone cover, Lauryn Hill has emerged with another cover from the forthcoming RCA compilation Nina Simone Revisited: A Tribute To Nina Simone. This time, the ex-Fugee offered a a dizzy R&B rendition of the originally stark “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair,” replete with dusty organ parts and teeth-gritting vocals. Listen to it here before the full record surfaces in full July 10.
Lauryn Hill Reimagines Nina Simone’s ‘Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair’ as Dizzy R&B Ballad
- Written By Colin Joyce
- | June 23, 2015 - 12:05 pm
