Lena Horne – Spotlight On Lena Horne

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Lena Horne

For Those of you unfamiliar with Lena’s work or experiencing it for the first time, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an African American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer who started her career in performance at the age of 16 in 1931 and had a career that spanned 69 years.
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Tracklist
No. Track Name Artist
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.

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