MONTREUX, Switzerland, (Reuters) – African American  singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone was celebrated at  the Montreux jazz festival in a tribute by four black women to  the “High Priestess of Soul”.

Her daughter Lisa, known by the stage name “Simone”, as well  as Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo, sang numbers  from her repertoire including “I Loves you Porgy”, “My Baby Just  Cares for Me”, “Feeling Good”, and “Ne Me Quitte Pas”.

They joined together for an encore of “Four Women”, written  by Simone in 1966 as a bitter lament of four black women of  varying skin tone.

“We’re having a fine time celebrating the legacy of my  mother. Had she known it, she would have said ‘let me sit back  and see how much the world loves me’,” Lisa Simone told the  Saturday night crowd before singing “Keeper of the Flame”.

“This has been a dream of mine for a very long time,” said  the daughter of the jazz musician who used her music as a  vehicle for social commentary. Nina Simone died in France in  2003.