The rocky decade following Unplugged 2.0, Hill’s quixotic acoustic follow-up to the multiplatinum Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, found the artist sliding away from the public eye and refusing to pay taxes, a self-prescribed political act nearly undone by a quirky deal to settle her debts in exchange for recording a new album. Before that, she paid tribute to Bob Marley with a performance of on Fallon’s “Late Night” in 2011.
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In a rare late-night appearance, the astounding songstress Lauryn Hill passed through The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform her version of Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good”. (She has six tracks on the album.) The album was released on the heels of the long-anticipated Netflix biographical documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone? Hill’s rendition is a single from Nina Revisited…A Tribute to Nina Simone. This time around, Ms. Hill was backed by strings, horns, back-up singers, a dj and a killer guitarist.
The performance was a show-stopping one and undeniably does justice to the late Nina Simone as Hill pours soul into her every note, definitely leaving everyone feeling good.
“Because I fed on this music, both hers and lovers like her, like my basic food, I believed I always had a right to have a voice”, said Hill.
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Hill’s performance of “Feeling Good” is one that will undeniably be talked about for years to come.
