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Lena Horne Biography

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  • Birth Name: Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
  • Birth Place: Brooklyn, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/30/1917, Cancer
  • Profession: Singer; actor
Lena Horne Fast Facts:
  • Quit school at 14 and landed her first stage job at 16, as a chorus girl at Harlem's famed Cotton Club.
  • Made her Broadway debut in 1934 and her film debut in an all-black musical titled The Duke Is Tops in 1938.
  • Billed as Helena Horne, she made her recording debut in 1936 singing "That's What Love Did to Me" and "I Take to You" with the Noble Sissle Society Orchestra.
  • A longtime friend of singer-activist Paul Robeson, she was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
  • As of 2006, the 333-performance run of Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music holds the record for the longest running one-woman show on Broadway.
  • Received a Kennedy Center Honors award in 1984 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989.
    Lena Horne Relationships:
  • Louis J. Jones - Ex-husband
  • Edna Louise Scottron Horne - Mother
  • Edwin Fletcher ('Teddy') Jones - Son
  • Edwin Fletcher Horne Jr. - Father
  • Gail Jones Lumet Buckley - Daughter
  • Lennie Hayton - Husband (deceased)

    • Lena Horne Awards:
  • 1958 Tony: Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical - Nominee
  • 1981 Tony: Special Award - Winner
  • 1985 Emmy: Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special - Nominee
  • 1981 Grammy: Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - Winner
  • 1995 Grammy: Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female - Winner

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