Feeling Good - Nina Simone - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Sometimes it takes a little while for some songs to find their audience. Fittingly called “the High Priestess of Soul,” Nina Simone made a name for herself by applying her expressive contralto on jazz and soul standards. Her 1965 recording of “Feeling Good,” originally written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, didn’t make much of an impression at first. It was released on Nina Simone’s album I Put a Spell on You and wasn’t released as a single. But after a few decades had passed, the auto-maker Volkswagen featured her version of the song on a 1994 TV commercial, increasing its popularity and making it one of her signature songs. Since then, Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” has been featured and sampled on many tracks, such as “New Day” by Jay-Z and Kanye West, and “How I Feel” by Flo Rida. This surge in popularity increased the song’s overall profile, resulting in more cover versions by a wider swath of artists.