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Lena Horne


Born
in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, The United States
June 30, 1917

Died
May 09, 2010

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Music


Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress and dancer.

Horne joined the mike chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Due to the Red Scare and her progressive political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.

Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs as well as television, and releasing well received albums. Horne announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one ...more

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“you have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way”
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