Lena Horne is one of the most popular African-American jazz legend singers. She was born in 1917 Lena Mary Horne in New York City. She performed with the greatest jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington and Artie lives in New York City today and does not appear in the public eye anymore. Lena is most the movie Stormy Weather, in which she sung the title song, in the 1940′s. Contrary to how music begin, Lena grew up in an elite family. She lived in a black bourgeois area in Brooklyn, New
Her father Edwin Horne left them when she was three-years-old. Her mother Edna Scottron, daughter of an inventor, was with a black theater group and traveled a lot. Lena’s grandparents raised her. Though, she was said to have been a part of the Black elite, racial discrimination still existed. Lena Horne and her friend Paul Robeson embarked on a lifelong effort to fight for Civil Rights.
In fact, she took the civil rights movement so seriously to point of rejecting the offer to perform to a segregated audience or to an audience where the black people were there only to serve white people. Lena Horne was apart of the March on Washington just for the receiving well-deserved treatment equal to the privileged white people. In addition, Lena Horne committed herself to speaking along with performing for the NAACP, National Council For Negro Women and to assist former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in passing the anti-lynching law in America’s Congress.
Even with all those serious concerns she still found time to become one of memorable Jazz singers in history. She performed at the cafй society, a club imitating the European cabarets to show the talent of undiscovered African American which led to the success of Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, Big Joe Turner, Ella
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