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After failing to build a gun, this singer wrote a song in an hour that repeats the phrase “too slow.” This singer closed performances with a 10-minute biblically inspired song that includes a rhythmic clapping section. In 1987, this singer improvised a Bach-inspired fugue during a performance of “My Baby Just Cares for Me.” Hal Mooney added a piano triplet and emphasized the first and third beats in a 1965 arrangement for this singer whose lyrics include “It’s a new dawn, It’s a new day” and a line about “birds flying high.” (10[1])Bandleader (-5[1])Weldon Irvine wrote lyrics inspired by Lorraine Hansberry for this singer’s Civil Rights anthem “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.” For 10 points, name this blues singer whose signature songs include “Mississippi Goddam” and “Feeling Good.” (0[1])■END■

ANSWER: Nina Simone [or Eunice Kathleen Waymon] (The third line is about “Sinnerman.”)
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