Lena Horne Lyrics Follow
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years appearing in film, television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the 1943 films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Because of the Red Scare and her political activism, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963 and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92.
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Albums
Being Myself
Greatest Hits
Feelin' Good
Soul
Lena Like Latin
Lovely & Alive
Porgy and Bess
Popular Songs
- That Doo-Wah Thing
- Solitude in Transblucency
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be
- Harlem (A Tone Parallel to Harlem), From "Far East Suite"
- Come Sunday
- Ad Lib on Nippon
- Isfahan
- Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
- Sophisticated Lady
- Bess, You Is My Women
- Street Calls: Strawberry Women / The Honey Man / Crab Man
- Oh, I Got Plenty of Nothin'
- Song of Injured Love
- Ferris Wheel
- Message to Michael
- Fire Dance
- Nightwind
- Fool on the Hill
- In My Life
- Galatea's Guitar
- Something
- Everybody's Talkin'
- Rocky Raccoon
- The Fool on the Hill
- A Message to Michael
- Close Enough for Love
- A Fine Romance
- I Won't Leave You Again
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
- I'm Beginning to See the Light