Pronunciation of name I do not know Nina Simone very well at all but I find it extremely difficult to believe that her name is pronounced approximately neenuh summuhnaw in any language let alone in English I am curious to find out what pronunciation was intended to represent since I know of no language which distinguishes and four vowels in relative proximity of each other The pronunciation was added by who was later banned as a sockpuppet so I can only conclude that it was a bit of pointless vandalism But it has stood unchallenged for almost a year I m not sure what that says about the credibility of pronunciation guides on Wikipedia I am changing the pronunciation to NEE nuh si MOAN which I believe is the correct pronunciation and is the combination of the usual pronunciations for the names Nina and Simone in English