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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne. Profil: American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Born June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, New York, USA – died May 9, 2010, Manhattan, New York, USA. She was secretly married to musical director and composer Lennie Hayton in 1947, but because of the delicate politics of the interracial match led the couple to ...
A pivotal figure in the history of Black arts and culture, Lena Horne was a woman whose cool elegance as a singer and actress was matched by her convictions as an activist. Born in Brooklyn in 1917, Horne got her start at Harlem’s legendary Cotton Club as a member of the chorus line before becoming one of its most famous acts of the ‘40s ...
10. Mai 2010 · Groundbreaking singer, performer and film star Lena Horne died Sunday night in New York at the age of 92. Horne, the first African American to sign a long-term contract with a major film studio ...
14. Mai 2020 · Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father, Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who worked in the gambling trade, left the family when Lena was three. Her mother, Edna, was an actress with an African American theater troupe and traveled extensively. Horne was mainly raised by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne. Yet, she still moved a great deal in her early years ...
10. Mai 2010 · Mon 10 May 2010 13.36 EDT. It was the early 1940s and Lena Horne, the singer and rising Hollywood star, was making a morale-boosting appearance in front of the troops at Fort Riley in Kansas. As ...
19. Mai 2012 · This is the definitive performance of Stormy Weather by Lena Horne, imho. She gives you the drama, the heartbreak, the anger -- all of it. Too bad we don't...
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28. Nov. 2023 · Lena Horne was a trailblazer. Born in 1917, the daughter of Edwin Horne Jr., an entrepreneur and gambler, and Edna Louise Scottron, an actress in a Black theater troupe, Horne rose from the chorus of the storied Cotton Club in Harlem, which she joined at age 16, to become a celebrated singer and nightclub performer, a featured star at MGM, and a civil rights activist in a career that spanned ...
