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  "name": "Nina Simone",
  "description": "Nina Simone appears once in our Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records list. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
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      "title": "Love Me or Leave Me",
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      "whyItMatters": "Her story is the thing. A Black woman in a segregated country, refused the concert-pianist career she had trained for, who took that training and put it straight into jazz and blues instead.",
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