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05-10-10, 11:56 AM
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Lena Horne's death at age 92 casts a shadow over Broadway where she shone for so long
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.
She began singing in the mid-1930s, with a voice that was powerful and warm yet somehow wistful. It would take her years to really understand her songs, she later said, but the voice was always there.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2010/05/10/2010-05-10_lena_hornes_death_at_age_92_casts_a_shadow_over _broadway_where_she_shone_for_so_.html#ixzz0nXwpZ3 Dc
Lena Horne's death at age 92 casts a shadow over Broadway where she shone for so long
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.
She began singing in the mid-1930s, with a voice that was powerful and warm yet somehow wistful. It would take her years to really understand her songs, she later said, but the voice was always there.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/arts/2010/05/10/2010-05-10_lena_hornes_death_at_age_92_casts_a_shadow_over _broadway_where_she_shone_for_so_.html#ixzz0nXwpZ3 Dc