Lena Horne
American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917-2010) · United States · Musicians · Died at 92
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Something wrong?Lena Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theater.
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2010Died9 May 20101999Grammy Hall of FameAwardNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz ArtistAward1995Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal AlbumAward1989Grammy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1987Honorary Degree from Spelman CollegeAwardRadcliffe MedalAward1984Kennedy Center HonorsAwardPaul Robeson AwardAward1983Spingarn MedalAward1982NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame AwardAward1981Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a MusicalAwardGrammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal PerformanceAwardSpecial Tony AwardAward1917Born30 June 1917
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Horne as Julie LaVerne in a mini-production of Show Boat in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), singing "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"
Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941
Horne singing "Why Was I Born?" in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Horne performing on The Bell Telephone Hour, 1965![Lena Horne posing with the Tuskegee Airmen in Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II{{cite news |last1=Pilkington |first1=Ed |title=Lena Horne: a silken voice and fiery pride |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/10/lena-horne-profile-tributes |access-date=September 30, 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |date=May 10, 2010}} She performed for the first black pilots (the [[Tuskegee Airmen]]) many times during World War II.{{cite book |last1=Ralston Major |first1=Glenda |last2=Clark Johnson, III |first2=Forrest |last3=Lanning Minchew |first3=Kaye |title=LaGrange |date=2011 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston South Carolina |isbn=978-0738587684 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RK4aZV41-8sC&dq=lena+horne+willie+fuller&pg=PA90 |access-date=September 30, 2021}}"},"2":{"wt":"group=N"}},"i":0}}]}">[N 1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Lena_Horne_with_Tuskegee_airmen.png/500px-Lena_Horne_with_Tuskegee_airmen.png)
Lena Horne posing with the Tuskegee Airmen in Tuskegee, Alabama, during World War II{{cite news |last1=Pilkington |first1=Ed |title=Lena Horne: a silken voice and fiery pride |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/10/lena-horne-profile-tributes |access-date=September 30, 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |date=May 10, 2010}} She performed for the first black pilots (the [[Tuskegee Airmen]]) many times during World War II.{{cite book |last1=Ralston Major |first1=Glenda |last2=Clark Johnson, III |first2=Forrest |last3=Lanning Minchew |first3=Kaye |title=LaGrange |date=2011 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston South Carolina |isbn=978-0738587684 |page=90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RK4aZV41-8sC&dq=lena+horne+willie+fuller&pg=PA90 |access-date=September 30, 2021}}"},"2":{"wt":"group=N"}},"i":0}}]}">[N 1]
Horne at her 80th birthday party, 1997Listen
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deceased
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Lived 1917 to 2010 · aged 92
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