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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (Nova Iorque, 30 de junho de 1917 - Nova Iorque, 9 de maio de 2010) [1] foi uma famosa cantora e atriz norte-americana. Apesar de que já ter gravado e feito performances com vários músicos de jazz (notavelmente Artie Shaw e Teddy Wilson ), ela não era considerada uma cantora de jazz por muitos críticos ...
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Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Both sides of her family were biracial African Americans. She belonged to the well-educated upper stratumof Black New Yorkers at the time. She lived the first five years of her life in a brownstone at 519 Macon Street. Horne's father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. (1893–1970), a one-time owner...
Road to Hollywood
In the fall of 1933, Horne joined the chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City. In the spring of 1934, she had a featured role in the Cotton Club Parade starring Adelaide Hall, who took Lena under her wing. Horne made her first screen appearance as a dancer in the musical short Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935). A few years later, Horne joined Noble Sissle's Orchestra, with which she toured and with whom she made her first records, issued by Decca. After she separated from her firs...
Changes of direction
Horne became disenchanted with Hollywood and increasingly focused on her nightclub career. She made only two major appearances for MGM during the 1950s: Duchess of Idaho (1950, which was also Eleanor Powell's final film); and the musical Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956). She said she was "tired of being typecast as a Negro who stands against a pillar singing a song. I did that 20 times too often." She was blacklisted during the 1950s for her affiliations in the 1940s with communist-backed groups....
Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights Movement. In 1941, she sang at Café Society, New York City's first integrated venue, and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to perform "for segregated audiences or for groups in which German POWs were seated in front of Black servicemen",...
Horne married Louis Jordan Jones, a political operative, in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer) was born. They had a son, Edwin Jones (1940–1970) who died of kidney disease. Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944. Horne's second marriage was to Lennie H...
Lena Horne died of congestive heart failure at age 92 on May 9, 2010. Her funeral took place at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York, where she had been a member. Thousands gathered and attendees included: Leontyne Price, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Laure...
In 2003, ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biographical film. In the weeks following Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne had demanded Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives resisted Horne's demand", according to the Associated Pres...
Albums
1. Moanin' Low (RCA Victor, 1942) 2. Classics in Blue(Black & White, 1947) 3. Lena Horne Sings (Tops, 1953) 4. It's Love(RCA Victor, 1955) 5. Lena Horne(Tops, 1956) 6. Jamaicawith Ricardo Montalban (RCA Victor, 1957) 7. Stormy Weather(RCA Victor, 1957) 8. Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria(RCA Victor, 1957) 9. Lena and Iviewith Ivie Anderson (Jazztone, 1957) 10. I Feel So Smoochie(Lion, 1958) 11. Give the Lady What She Wants(RCA Victor, 1958) 12. Songs by Burke and Van Heusen(RCA Victor, 1959)...
Singles
1. "That's What Love Did to Me"/"I Take to You" (Decca) 2. "Stormy Weather" (1943) 3. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (1945) No. 21 U.S. Pop 4. "'Deed I Do" (1948) No. 26 U.S. Pop 5. "Love Me or Leave Me" (1955) No. 19 U.S. Pop (Disc Jockey Chart) 6. "Now!" (1963) No. 92 U.S. Pop 7. "Watch What Happens" with Gabor Szabo(1970) No. 119 U.S. Pop
Powers, Clare (June 1, 1955). "That Fabulous Lena". Down Beat. pp. 6, 20.Bogle, Donald (2023). Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed. Philadelphia: Running Press. ISBN 9780762475209. OCLC 1361694201.Lena Horne at IMDbLena Horne at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLena Horne discography at DiscogsEntry in the New Georgia Encyclopedia Archived October 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine9 de mai. de 2023 · Por brigar por melhores papéis e por causa das suas exigências durante os show na Segunda Guerra Mundial, ela foi considerada uma pessoa subversiva, e colocada na "lista negra" criada durante o Macarthismo, que baniu diversos artistas em Hollywood, acusados de serem "comunistas".
2 de abr. de 2014 · Actress and singer Lena Horne was one of the most popular performers of her time, known for films such as 'Cabin in the Sky' and 'The Wiz' as well as her trademark song, "Stormy Weather."
Lena Horne. Actress: Cabin in the Sky. Lena Calhoun Horne was born June 30, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York. 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.
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Para revelar as décadas de monitoramento e repressão contra muitas personalidades negras de grande êxito artístico e cultural, basta o exemplo da extraordinária cantora e atriz Lena Horne (1917-2010).
26 de jun. de 2024 · Lena Horne (born June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died May 9, 2010, New York City) was an American singer and actress who first came to fame in the 1940s. Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City.
