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Lena Horne
Lena Mary Calhoun 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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entertainment · American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010) · actor · dancer · singer · pin-up model · activist · stage actor · television actor · film actor · model · musician · also Lena Horne, Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, Horne
Born 30 June 1917 · Died 9 May 2010 · Q112307
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2026· 2 entries
“s recordings, which offended both actresses. Ultimately, Gardner”
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “Essential Classics, Vol. 283: Lena Horne”.
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2018· 1 entry
A forever stamp depicting Horne began to be issued; this made Horne the 41st honoree in the Black Heritage stamp series
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Clarke Peters: ‘Many people aren’t aware of Lena Horne’s struggle’
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Eight Classic Albums”.
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2011· 1 entry
Horne was also portrayed by actress Ryan Jillian in a one-woman show titled Notes from A Horne staged at the Susan Batson studio in New York City, from November 2011 to February 2012
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2010· 15 entries
Released album “The Essential Lena Horne”.
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The Guardian: Why I celebrate Lena Horne | David Thomson
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The Guardian: Lena Horne: a silken voice and fiery pride
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The Guardian: Lena Horne obituary
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The Guardian: Lena Horne, a true breakthrough act | Lola Adesioye
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The Guardian: Lena Horne - a lady not for turning
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The Guardian: Lena Horne's life in pictures
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The Guardian: Lena Horne, singer and black activist, dies
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Died 2010-05-09.
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“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
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Released album “Lena Horne Sings: The MGM Singles”.
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“Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.”
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“I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.”
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“It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”
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Released album “Four Classic Albums Plus”.
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “The Jazz Biography”.
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Released album “The Best Of”.
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Horne was portrayed by Leslie Uggams as the older Lena and Nikki Crawford as the younger Lena in the stage musical Stormy Weather staged at the Pasadena Playhouse in California (January to March 2009)
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Released album “36 Greatest Hits”.
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Just Jazz: Empathy”.
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Released album “Seasons of a Life”.
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Released album “Whispering: The Very Best of Lena Horne”.
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Released album “Lady of Song”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Anthology”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Lena Horne”.
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Released album “The Great Vocalists of Jazz & Entertainment: Stormy Weather”.
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Released album “It’s Love / Songs by Burke & Van Heusen”.
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2003· 1 entry
ABC announced that Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biographical film
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Back in My Baby’s Arms”.
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Released album “At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands”.
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Released album “Every Time We Say Goodbye”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “The Classic Lena Horne”.
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Released album “The Best of the War Years”.
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2000· 6 entries
Released album “Midnite Jazz & Blues: The Lady Is a Tramp”.
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Horne's vocals were featured on Simon Rattle's Classic Ellington album, and in 2006, a compilation album, entitled "Seasons of a Life" featuring various outtakes from Horne's 1990's recording sessions with Blue Note reco
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Released album “Love Me or Leave Me”.
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Released album “Love Songs”.
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Released album “You’re My Thrill”.
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Released album “Classic Ellington”.
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1999· 4 entries
Awarded NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist for Being Myself (1999).
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (1999).
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Released album “Cocktail Hour”.
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Released album “Planet Jazz: Lena Horne”.
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Being Myself”.
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Released album “Lena Horne: A Musical Anthology”.
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Released album “Once in a Lifetime”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Jazz Masters”.
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Released album “The Masters”.
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1996· 5 entries
Released album “Ain’ It the Truth: Lena Horne at Metro‐Goldwyn‐Mayer”.
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Released album “Washington & Horne”.
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Horne wrote the Introduction to a new edition of Stout's novel, Champagne for One
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Released album “Skyliner 1940-1945”.
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In 1996 Horne wrote the Introduction to a new edition of Stout's novel, Champagne for One.
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1995· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album for An Evening with Lena Horne (1995).
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Released album “Lena Sings the Standards”.
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Released album “An Evening With Lena Horne Live at the Supper Club”.
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Released album “The Lady and Her Music”.
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “Lena Horne & Sammy Davis Jr.”.
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Released album “Love Is the Thing”.
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Released album “We’ll Be Together Again”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Lena Goes Latin / Sings Your Requests”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Stormy Lady”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Stormy Weather (Legendary Lena 1941-58)”.
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989).
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Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “The Jazz Collector Edition: Cotton Club Days”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “The Men in My Life”.
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1987· 2 entries
Won Radcliffe Medal (1987).
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Awarded honorary degree from Spelman College (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “The Lady”.
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Paul Robeson Award (1984).
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1984).
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1983· 2 entries
Won Spingarn Medal (1983).
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The NAACP awarded her the Spingarn Medal
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award (1982).
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1981· 6 entries
Awarded Special Tony Award (1981).
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (1981).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (1981).
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Released album “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (Live on Broadway)”.
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“I knew I had graduated from the school of life, and I was ready to accept it.”
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Received a Special Tony Award for the show, which also played to acclaim at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1984
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1980· 1 entry
Horne, Luciano Pavarotti and host Gene Kelly were all scheduled to appear at a gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House to salute the NY City Center's Joffrey Ballet Company
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “Lena, a New Album”.
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Released album “Stormy Weather”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “Lena & Michel”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “The Four Queens of Jazz”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Nature’s Baby”.
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1970· 2 entries
Co-starred with Harry Belafonte in the hour-long Harry & Lena special for ABC; in 1973, she co-starred with Tony Bennett in Tony and Lena
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Released album “Lena & Gabor”.
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1969· 1 entry
Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “Merry From Lena”.
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Released album “Lena in Hollywood”.
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Released album “Soul”.
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Feelin’ Good”.
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “NBC’s Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street”.
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1963· 2 entries
She, along with Democratic National Committee (D
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Released album “Lena Like Latin”.
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1962· 2 entries
Released album “Lena on the Blue Side”.
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Released album “Lovely & Alive”.
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1959· 2 entries
Released album “Songs by Burke and Van Heusen”.
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Released album “Porgy and Bess”.
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1958· 3 entries
Horne became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical", for her part in the "Calypso" musical Jamaica (which, at Horne's request, featured her longtime friend Adela
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Released album “Give the Lady What She Wants”.
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Released ep “At The Cocoanut Grove”.
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1957· 3 entries
Released album “At the Waldorf Astoria”.
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A live album entitled Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria became the biggest-selling record by a female artist in the history of the RCA Victor label at that time
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Released album “Lena And Ivie”.
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “It's Love”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “It’s Love”.
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1952· 1 entry
Released album “Lena Sings Your Requests”.
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1947· 2 entries
Released ep “If I Had You / Old Devil Moon / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Deed I Do”.
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Released album “Till the Clouds Roll By”.
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1946· 1 entry
Released ep “Mad About the Boy / Why Shouldn’t I? / La borrachita / I Can’t Escape From You”.
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1945· 6 entries
Released ep “How Long Has This Been Going On? / I’ll Be Around / You Always Hurt the One You Love / Paper Doll”.
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Released ep “I Want a Little Doggie / My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time / (Yip Yip de Hootie) My Baby Said Yes”.
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Released ep “That Moon’s in My Heart / Wouldn’t It Be Nice / My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time / One for My Baby”.
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Released ep “Ill Wind / Moanin’ Low / The Day After Forever / Don’t You Know I Care”.
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Horne financed tours of military camps herself
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And 1946, she sang with Billy Eckstine's Orchestra
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1944· 1 entry
Released ep “Diga Diga Do / There’s No Two Ways About Love / Good for Nothin’ Joe”.
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1942· 1 entry
Released album “Moanin' Low”.
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1941· 1 entry
Sang at Café Society, New York City's first integrated venue, and worked with Paul Robeson
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1940· 1 entry
Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944.
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1917· 2 entries
Born 1917-06-30.
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“s novel, Champagne for One. Screenwriter Jenny Lumet, known for her award-winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married, is Horne”
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