Lauryn Hill’s Cover of “Feeling Good” on ‘The Tonight Show’ Is the Best Live Performance You’ll See This Week

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…or month, or year, or, pretty non-hyperbolically, any amount of time. Lauryn Hill originally covered the daunting Nina Simone track for Nina Revisited: A Tribute To Nina Simone, the album accompanying the Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?And her live performance last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — in which she was joined by a full horn and string section — was even more sensationally fantastic than the studio recording, and expanded the track to an over-five-minute display of uncompromising joy.

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