Chic Beats
Nicole Simone
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY DARIAN ZAHEDI
Although she was born in the ’80s, Nicole Simone has always Simone pairs breathy bits of voice, guitar, piano and muted trumbeen fascinated with nostalgia and old films. When she writes pet with images of her curvy and flirtatious, for-your-eyes only
music, she particularly loves creating a mood that transports kind of a dance that begins in a desert and makes its way to a
listeners to vintage-like movie scenes. Simone says that she is motel room encounter. Simone strikes the kind of slinky tone
influenced by “music I hear, paintings I see, and architecture that is reminisccent of Chris Isaak’s famously provocative video,
I’m surrounded by, but I am always drawn to classic and timeless “Wicked Games”.
pieces with unique details.” With such sultry songs as “Melt”,
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