A song for Lena Horne 1917-2010 Don’t know why There’s no sun up in the sky... If there's no sun up in the sky, it's because he's mourning the passing of the great Lena Horne, a few weeks shy of her 93rd birthday. Miss Horne was born on June 30th 1917 into a middle-class black family in Brooklyn. Her father left in 1920, and her mother turned to acting, touring in all-black productions of white shows, in one of which - Madame X - her young daughter made her stage debut. For the next six decades, she was rarely off-stage....
