Honoring the journey of a legend... Before joining the civil rights protest movement and shining more light on the African American experience in the United States, Nina Simone sang the popular love songs of her time. In fact, it was I Loves You Porgy, sung in a Atlantic City piano bar (her first gig), which got her noticed by the industry. Impassioned Spirit explores the landscape of her life through these two repertoires which seem to exist at polar opposites of each other. Yet, they have something in common... Nina poured her whole heart into every song she sang.