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Lena Horne
| No. | Track Name | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Got Rhythm | Lena Horne |
| 2 | I Get The Blues When It Rains | Lena Horne |
| 3 | I'm Confessin' | Lena Horne |
| 4 | I Want To Be Happy | Lena Horne |
| 5 | I Concentrate On You | Lena Horne |
| 6 | I Understand | Lena Horne |
| 7 | I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart | Lena Horne |
| 8 | I Only Have Eyes For You | Lena Horne |
| 9 | I Surrender Dear | Lena Horne |
| 10 | I Found A New Baby | Lena Horne |
| 11 | I've Grown Accustomed To His Face | Lena Horne |
| 12 | I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me) | Lena Horne |
| 13 | Cole Porter Medley:How's Your Romance | After You | Love of My Life | It's All Right with Me | Lena Horne |
| 14 | Mood Indigo | Lena Horne |
| 15 | I'm Beginning To See The Light | Lena Horne |
| 16 | Let Me Love You | Lena Horne |
| 17 | Come Runnin' | Lena Horne |
| 18 | Today I love Everyone | Lena Horne |
| 19 | A New Fangled Tango | Lena Horne |
| 20 | I Love To Love | Lena Horne |
| 21 | Honeysuckle Rose | Lena Horne |
| 22 | From This Moment On | Lena Horne |
| 23 | How You Say It | Lena Horne |
| 24 | Day In – Day Out | Lena Horne |
Civil Rights Movement
Horne was deep involved within the Civil Rights movement. During World War II, strongly she refused to perform “for segregated audiences”, when she saw the black soldiers sit in the back seats, she walked off the stage to the first row where the black troops were seated and performed with the Germans behind her. She was involved in the Medgar Evers’ fight, and she was at a rally with him the weekend before Evers was assassinated. She also met President John F. Kennedy at the White House two days before he was assassinated. She was at the March on Washington and worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws.
Career
Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn in 1917. Both sides of her family were a mixture of European American, Native American, and African-American descent, and belonged to the upper part of the middle-class.
In 1933 she started her career as chorus line of the Cotton Club in New York City and sooner after che moved to the cinema world, where, step by step, movie by movie, song by song, became famouse. But in the middle of the Fifties, after a lot of major appearences, she decided to leave Hollywood and its fakeness firstly for the night club scene then for TV programs.
