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YouTube Treasure: Soul Legend Goes Kosher

by Michael Musto

April 16, 2008

The breathless email came in from a reader: “If you want a real YouTube treasure, how about fierce, weirdly mannish Nina Simone doing a cool jazz 1960s version of a Hebrew folk song???!!!???” HELL, yeah! Bring it on, babe. To life!

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