Lauryn Hill has kept herself scarce from performing on television in the last five years, but for Jimmy Fallon, she's willing to make an exception.
Hill belted out Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" on "The Tonight Show" on Thursday to promote the album "Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone," a companion piece for the Netflix original documentary, "What Happened, Miss Simone."
In addition to "Feeling Good," Simone contributed six covers total to the album including "Ne Me Quitte Pas," "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," "Wild Is the Wind," "African Mailman," and "I've Got Life" as well as an interpolation of "Ain't Got No, I Got Life."
"Because I fed on this music, both hers and lovers like her, like my basic food, I believed I always had a right to have a voice," Hill said in a statement in June. "Her example is clearly a form of sustenance to a generation needing to find theirs. What a gift."
Mary J. Blige, Usher, Common, Alice Smith, Simone's daughter Lisa and others also recorded cover tracks for the compilation album.
Hill did perform The Beatles' "Something" on "The Late Show with David Letterman" last year during the show's weeklong tribute to the band's 50th anniversary on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Before that, she paid tribute to Bob Marley with a performance of on Fallon's "Late Night" in 2011.
