She died 8 years ago
Born:Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, 30, 1917, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died:09, 2010, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Posted on 05/12/2019 11:01:00 AM PDT by lowbridge
My dad used to refer to Lena Horne as Louis’ little Lena. Her husband was named Louis, I think. Anyway, I am really disappointed to read that she cursed white people, the white people who were paying to see her sing. I always thought she was a classy lady with a gorgeous voice.
she married a white man- claiming it was to advance her career and cross the color barrier- according to wiki
Born:Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, 30, 1917, Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died:09, 2010, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Stunning woman.
I always thought Lena could pass for white.
Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week” (1965) went,
“But during National Brotherhood Week,
“National Brotherhood Week,
“Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark are dancing cheek to cheek,”
This is an archive article from 2010...… 9 years ago
She died in 2010
I saw her perform Stormy weather on TV when I was a kid. She opened my ears to a sound that was pretty much buried in the early 70’s.
Rest In Peace.
Uh, the comments after the article say she died 10 years ago. I checked and she did die on 5/9/09. Funnily enough some of the comments hit the LAT for publishing it simply to ‘white shame’.
This reminds me of Trump’s 30 year old taxes..its new again LOL
Lena died 8 years ago but anyway I sympathize with her because being of mixed race especially in those times were very difficult. Everyone is vying for you to pick one of the other which is silly all together in my book because people are people first and not just identified as far as race and color of ones skin
Great set of pipes.
Prayers for her and her family.
Which is why today, it tends to be the lighter-skinned blacks that are the most “down wit the shtruggle”.
So beautiful and fantastic voice. RIP
I have an old VFW buddy who played upright bass in her band.
I always thought the musician Alicia Keyes would have been the best to portray Lena Horne in an on screen role.
This was before Alicia became anti-Make Up wearing, as she is today. This was also before I really listened to her.
Alician is a fine pianist, has perfect pitch, but does not really ‘sing’, in my opinion. She more accurately, YELLS and hollers in the correct key, adding energy and personal flourishes to her notes.
I think the correct phrase is Melisma singing; When you sing a single syllable of lyric while moving between several different notes in succession.
Mariah Carey is famous for doing this. As in her first hit;
“I Had A Vision”. Hear the last notes before the coda.
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