[originalbuckeye]

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.

[PIF]

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.

[Sacajaweau]

Stunning woman.

[mason-dixon]

This is an archive article from 2010...… 9 years ago

[Sacajaweau]

She died in 2010

[Vermont Lt]

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.

[originalbuckeye]

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’.

[eyedigress]

Stormy Weather......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPgnj5upihQ

[bray]

Great set of pipes.
Prayers for her and her family.

[buffyt]

So beautiful and fantastic voice. RIP

[mylife]

I have an old VFW buddy who played upright bass in her band.

[lee martell]

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.

[headstamp 2]

That’s two.

RIP

[dfwgator]

She would have been 101 if she just died.

[BipolarBob]

Sweet Georgia Brown.

[Midwesterner53]

She cursed the people paying for her comfortable lifestyle. Sounds very modern.

[morphing libertarian]

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395043/

[ConservativeMind]

Please post obits on Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, too.

[Fiji Hill]

She was beautiful and a great singer and actress, but she was as Red as a tail light--and I don't mean Red as in Red State. Her entry in Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (New York: Business Consultants, 1950) runs to more than a page.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I would like to nominate this thread for procrastinator of the decade. See Jim for your trophy.