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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She had recorded and performed extensively, both independently, and with other jazz notables, including Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Benny Carter, and Billy Eckstine.
In her biography she stated that on the day she was born, her father was in the midst of a card game trying to get money to pay the hospital costs. Her parents divorced while she was still a toddler. Her mother left later in order to find work as an actress and Lena was left in the care of her grandparents. When she was seven her mother returned and the two traveled around the state, which meant that Lena was enrolled in numerous schools (for a time she also attended schools in Florida, Georgia and Ohio). Later she returned to Brooklyn.
She quit school when she was 14 and got her first stage job at 16, dancing and later singing at the famed Cotton Club in Harlem (a renowned theatre in which black performers played before white audiences, immortalized in the film - The Cotton Club (1984)). She was in good hands at the club, especially when people such as Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington took her under their win...
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Top 10 Lena Horne Songs
Stormy Weather
The Lady Is A Tramp
I Want A Little Doggie
A Fine Romance
Love Me Or Leave Me
It Had Better Be Tonight
Night And Day
More Than You Know
When I Fall In Love
I Want A Little Doggie (Remix)
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Top 10 Lena Horne Albums
The Jazz Ladies Volume 3
The Irrespressible
Lena Goes Latin
The Lady Is a Tramp
The Best Of The War Years
Lena in Hollywood
Mad About the Boy
Stormy Weather
The Classic Lena Horne
The Best of Lena Horne
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