<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/21/obit.nina.simone.ap/">Singer Nina Simone dead at 70</a>

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nina Simone, the jazz great whose rapsy, forceful voice helped define the civil rights movement, died Monday at her home in France, her manager Clifton Henderson said. She was 70.