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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American popular singer.
While she has recorded and performed extensively with jazz musicians (notably Artie Shaw and Teddy Wilson), she is usually not considered a jazz singer because she does not improvise. She currently lives in New York City but no longer makes public appearances.
She was the first African American performer to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio, and became famous in 1943 for her rendition of Stormy Weather in the movie of the same name.
She later appeared in a number of MGM musicals, most notably Cabin in the Sky, but was never featured in a leading role due to her race and the fact that films featuring her had to be reedited for showing in southern states where theatres could not show films with African-American performers.
As a result, most of Horne's film appearances were standalone sequences that had no bearing on the rest of the film, so editing caused no disruption to the storyline; a notable exception was the all-black musical Cabin in the Sky, though even then one of her numbers had to be cut because it was considered too suggestive by the censors. She was originally considered for the lead role in the 1951 version of Show Boat but Ava Gardner was given the role instead.
Disenchanted with Hollywood by the mid-1950s, and increasingly focused on her nightclub career, she only made two major appearances in MGM films during the decade, 1950's Duchess of Idaho (which was also Eleanor Powell's film swan song), and the 1956 musical Meet Me in Las Vegas.
She returned to the screen three more times, playing Claire Quintana in the 1969 film Death of a Gunfighter, Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz (1978), with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and co-hosting the 1994 MGM retrospective That's Entertainment! III.
She appeared in Broadway musicals several times and in 1958 was nominated for the Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Musical." In 1981 she received a Special Tony Award for her show, Lena Horne: "The Lady and Her Music".
In 2003, ABC announced that pop star Janet Jackson would star as Horne in a television biopic. In the weeks following Jackson's so-called "wardrobe malfunction" debacle during the 2004 Super Bowl, however, Variety reported that Horne demanded Jackson be dropped from the project. "ABC executives resisted Horne’s demand," according to the Associated Press report, "but Jackson representatives told the trade newspaper that she left willingly after Horne and her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley, asked that she not take part."
In January 2005, Blue Note Records, her label for more than a decade, announced that "the finishing touches have been put on a collection of rare and unreleased recordings by the legendary Horne made during her time on Blue Note. Remixed by her longtime producer Rodney Jones, the recordings sound wonderful and include versions of such signature songs as Something To Live For, Chelsea Bridge and Stormy Weather." The album, originally titled Soul but renamed Seasons of My Life, was recorded in 1999 but remained unreleased for six years. The new album is scheduled for release on May 24, 2005.
Films
The Duke is Tops (1938; Million Dollar Pictures)
Panama Hattie (1942; MGM)*
Thousands Cheer (1943; MGM)
Stormy Weather (1942; 20th Century Fox)
I Dood It (1943; MGM)
Cabin in the Sky (1943; MGM)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944; MGM)
Swing Fever (1944; MGM)
Broadway Rhythm (1944; MGM)
Boogie-Woogie Dream (1944; Official Films short subject)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946; MGM)
Mantan Messes Up (1946; Toddy Pictures)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946; MGM)
Studio Visit (1946; MGM short subject)
Words and Music (1948; MGM)
Duchess of Idaho (1950; MGM)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956; MGM)
Death of a Gunfighter (1969; Universal Studios)
The Wiz (1978; Universal Studios)
That's Entertainment! III (1994; MGM)
Albums
It's Love (1955; RCA)
Stormy Weather (1956; RCA)
At the Waldorf Astoria (1957; RCA)
Jamaica [Original Cast Recording] (1957; RCA)
Give the Lady What She Wants (1958; RCA)
Porgy & Bess (1959; RCA) — with Harry Belafonte
Songs by Burke and Van Heusen (1960; RCA)
At the Sands (1961; RCA)
Lena on the Blue Side (1962; RCA)
Lovely & Alive (1963; RCA)
Lena Goes Latin (1963; Charter)
Sings Your Requests (1963; Charter)
Here's Lena Now! (1964; 20th Century)
Feelin' Good (1965; UA)
Lena in Hollywood (1966; UA)
Merry from Lena (1966; UA)
Soul (1966; UA)
Lena & Gabor (1970; Skye)
Nature's Baby (1971; Buddah)
Lena and Michel (1975; RCA)
Lena: A New Album (1976; RCA)
The Lady and Her Music (1981; Qwest) — Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The Men in My Life (1988; Three Cherries)
We'll Be Together Again (1994; Blue Note)
An Evening with Lena Horne (1995; Blue Note) — Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
Being Myself (1998; Blue Note)
Seasons of My Life (2005; Blue Note; recorded 1999)
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Horne"
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