I’ve got a confession to make, I didn’t know who Lena Horne was and I had to do the research on Wikipedia. According to the online source “Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress and dancer”.
And for the record, she was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer.
Singer and Actress Lena Horne’s death was announced by her son-in-law, Kevin Buckley.
Ms. Horne might have become a major movie star, but she was born 50 years too early, and languished at MGM in the 1940s because of the color of her skin, although she was so light-skinned that, when she was a child, other black children had taunted her, accusing her of having a “white daddy.”
RIP Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
