Alina Simone

Alina Simone appears in the following:

The Brighton Beach Connection

Saturday, November 02, 2019

One surprising connection figures in the ongoing Trump impeachment investigation: Brighton Beach. A visit to the famed Brooklyn enclave.

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Resisting Becoming An Entrepreneur

Friday, October 04, 2013

Singer-songwriter Alina Simone and NYU professor Jason King discuss the entrepreneurial pressure faced by independent musicians. 

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Alina Simone

Thursday, May 21, 2009

With an album of cover songs, Alina Simone paid tribute to Russian punk poet and cult figure Yanka Dyagileva, who died tragically in 1991. Simone, a Brooklyn-based songwriter who was born in the Ukraine, talks about Dyagileva and her story. Plus, we hear a live performance.

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Music and Torture

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Torture memos and waterboarding are the subject of much debate in Washington, but few are talking about the use of music in detainee interrogations. Today: music as torture, past and present. Also: Ukrainian-born singer Alina Simone is acquainting Americans with the work of a tragic Soviet-era punk singer. She performs ...