Andy Stroud

US producer, composer, arranger and former husband of 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 Liquid Soul under the stage name of simply Simone (11).
He was divorced from Nina Simone in 1970.