Lena Horne is one of the most popular African-American jazz legend singers. She came to be in 1917 Lena Mary Calhoun Horne in New york. She performed with the greatest jazz musicians including Duke Ellington and Artie Shaw. She lives in Nyc today and does not appear in people eye anymore. Lena is most well-known for the movie Stormy Weather, in which she sung the title song, within the 1940's. Contrary to how music careers usually begin, Lena was raised in an elite family. She lived in a black bourgeois area in Brooklyn, The big apple.
Her father Edwin Horne left them when she was three-years-old. Her mother Edna Scottron, daughter of the inventor, was an actress having a black theater group and traveled a whole lot. Lena's grandparents raised her. Though, she was said to have been a part of the Black elite, racial discrimination still existed. Lena Horne and her friend Paul Robeson embarked on a lifelong effort to fight for Civil Rights.
In fact, she took the civil rights movement so seriously to the point of rejecting the offer to perform to a segregated audience or an audience where the black people were there only to serve white people. Lena Horne was apart with the March on Washington only for the purpose of receiving well-deserved treatment comparable to the privileged white people. In addition, Lena Horne committed herself to speaking in addition to performing for the NAACP, National Council For Negro Women and to assist former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in passing the anti-lynching law in America's Congress.
Despite having all those serious concerns she still found time and energy to become one of the most memorable Jazz singers ever. She performed at the caf? society, a club imitating the European cabarets to show the talent of undiscovered Dark which led to the success of Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, Big Joe Turner, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young, Hazel Scott, Sarah Vaughn, Josh White, Pete Johnson and Mary Lou Williams.
From 1947 to 1971 Lena Horne remarried again to some Jewish man Lennie Hayton a musical conductor and arranger for MGM studios later to admit in her autobiography titled "Lena" by author Richard Schickel that they married him to help her career. Nevertheless, the interracial couple as always had to face pressures same race couples don't, but she stayed with him until he died. Lena Horne was in several Broadway musicals, and won a 1958 award on her performance in the calypso titled "Jamaica". Lena Horne won a Tony Award For her one woman show titled "Lena Horne: The girl and Her Music".
In her success, she's to her credit one of many longest solo performances ever to run more than the usual a short time span. Lena Horne in great modesty did not accept a lot of musical projects, yet arranged a recording with Frank Sinatra and Quincy Jones as producer which didn't happen. However, Lena Horne worked on a solo recording that featured duets with Sammy Davis, and Joe Williams titled "The Men During my Life" in the year 1988. The next year she won a Grammy Life Time Achievement Award to add to her list of credits of success she mastered in her own career. In her eighties she continued to record albums titled 1994 "We'll Be Together Again", 1995 Live album that won her a Grammy for the Best Vocal Jazz Album. 1998"Being Myself". Finally, she had the chance to sing on an album with Frank Sinatra to the song "Embraceable You".
In 2000 she recorded another album to lend her voice to a "Classic Ellington" recording. Lena Horne is a member of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta and it has been on the label Blue Note Records since 1995.
In 2005 ,Oprah Winfrey stated that she may to ask singer/musician Alicia Keys to play the part of Lena Horne inside a movie.
Her father Edwin Horne left them when she was three-years-old. Her mother Edna Scottron, daughter of the inventor, was an actress having a black theater group and traveled a whole lot. Lena's grandparents raised her. Though, she was said to have been a part of the Black elite, racial discrimination still existed. Lena Horne and her friend Paul Robeson embarked on a lifelong effort to fight for Civil Rights.
In fact, she took the civil rights movement so seriously to the point of rejecting the offer to perform to a segregated audience or an audience where the black people were there only to serve white people. Lena Horne was apart with the March on Washington only for the purpose of receiving well-deserved treatment comparable to the privileged white people. In addition, Lena Horne committed herself to speaking in addition to performing for the NAACP, National Council For Negro Women and to assist former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in passing the anti-lynching law in America's Congress.
Despite having all those serious concerns she still found time and energy to become one of the most memorable Jazz singers ever. She performed at the caf? society, a club imitating the European cabarets to show the talent of undiscovered Dark which led to the success of Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, Big Joe Turner, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young, Hazel Scott, Sarah Vaughn, Josh White, Pete Johnson and Mary Lou Williams.
From 1947 to 1971 Lena Horne remarried again to some Jewish man Lennie Hayton a musical conductor and arranger for MGM studios later to admit in her autobiography titled "Lena" by author Richard Schickel that they married him to help her career. Nevertheless, the interracial couple as always had to face pressures same race couples don't, but she stayed with him until he died. Lena Horne was in several Broadway musicals, and won a 1958 award on her performance in the calypso titled "Jamaica". Lena Horne won a Tony Award For her one woman show titled "Lena Horne: The girl and Her Music".
In her success, she's to her credit one of many longest solo performances ever to run more than the usual a short time span. Lena Horne in great modesty did not accept a lot of musical projects, yet arranged a recording with Frank Sinatra and Quincy Jones as producer which didn't happen. However, Lena Horne worked on a solo recording that featured duets with Sammy Davis, and Joe Williams titled "The Men During my Life" in the year 1988. The next year she won a Grammy Life Time Achievement Award to add to her list of credits of success she mastered in her own career. In her eighties she continued to record albums titled 1994 "We'll Be Together Again", 1995 Live album that won her a Grammy for the Best Vocal Jazz Album. 1998"Being Myself". Finally, she had the chance to sing on an album with Frank Sinatra to the song "Embraceable You".
In 2000 she recorded another album to lend her voice to a "Classic Ellington" recording. Lena Horne is a member of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta and it has been on the label Blue Note Records since 1995.
In 2005 ,Oprah Winfrey stated that she may to ask singer/musician Alicia Keys to play the part of Lena Horne inside a movie.
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