Andy Stroud

US producer, composer, arranger and former husband of [a=Nina Simone], born 1925 - died 2012.

A former police detective, he married Simone in 1960 and became her recording agent and sometime producer / songwriter.

They had a daughter, Lisa Celeste, in 1961, who became a theatre / musical performer and singer with [a=Liquid Soul] under the stage name of simply [a498018].

He was divorced from Nina Simone in 1970.