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Lena Horne Dies at age 92

by admin on May.10, 2010, under Lifestyle

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Broadway legend Lena Horne dies at age 92.

Lena Horne epitomized hot and she epitomized cool.

As an actress, she might be the most elegant vision that much of America never saw. For many years Hollywood didn’t think the country was ready for a black leading lady, even one whose elegance and beauty could take an audience’s breath away.

As a singer, she was in her mid-60s before her one-woman tour de force on Broadway in 1981-82 showed everyone in the city and the world just what she could do with a song.

Horne, who died Sunday in New York Presbyterian Hospital at the age of 92, lit up the sky from the moment in 1932 when she took her first steps in the Cotton Club chorus line. The sky just had a lot of clouds in it for a lot of years.

Lena Horne has won a host of Grammy’s for vocals in productions such as “The Lady and Her Music”. The has won lots of awards like the NAACP Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist, Tony Award for Best Actress in “Jamaica”, and Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, where she was awarded a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star.

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