Claim: Nina Simone was enrolled in a performing arts conservatory.
Evidence: With the help of a few supporters in her hometown of Tryon , North Carolina , she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
The Juilliard School -LRB- -LSB- ˌdʒuːliˈɑrd -RSB- -RRB- located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan , New York City , is a performing arts conservatory established in 1905.