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Lena Horne
No. | Track Name | Artist |
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01 | Stormy Weather | Lena Horne |
02 | Just One Of Those hings | Lena Horne |
03 | Mad About The Boy | Lena Horne |
04 | Night And Day | Lena Horne |
05 | Old Devil Moon | Lena Horne |
06 | One For My Baby | Lena Horne |
07 | The Lady is a Tramp | Lena Horne |
08 | Frankie And Johnny | Lena Horne |
09 | love me or leave me | Lena Horne |
10 | I Got It Bad And That Aint Good | Lena Horne |
11 | Honeysuckle Rose | Lena Horne |
12 | Once In A Lifetime | 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.