Fitzgerald, Lester Young, Hazel Scott, Sarah Vaughn, Josh White, Pete Johnson and Mary Lou Williams.
From 1947 to 1971 Lena Horne remarried again to a Jewish man Lennie Hayton a musical conductor and arranger for MGM studios later to her autobiography titled "Lena" by author Richard Schickel that she married him to help her career. Nevertheless, the interracial couple as always had to face pressures same race couples do not, but she stayed with him until he passed away. Lena Horne was in several Broadway musicals, and won a 1958 award for her performance in the titled "Jamaica". Lena Horne won a Tony Award For her one woman show titled "Lena Horne: The Lady Music".
In her success, she has to her credit one of the longest solo performances in history to run more than the usual record time. Lena Horne in great modesty did not accept a lot of musical projects, yet agreed upon a recording with Frank Sinatra and Quincy Jones as producer which did not happen. However, Lena Horne worked on a solo recording that featured duets with Sammy Davis, and Joe Williams titled "The Men In My Life" in the year 1988. The next year she won a Grammy Life Time Achievement Award to add to list of credits of success she mastered in her career. In her eighties she continued to record albums titled 1994 "We’ll Be Together Again", 1995 Live album that won her a Grammy for the Best Vocal Jazz Album. 1998"Being Myself". Finally, she had the chance to sing on an album with Frank Sinatra to the song "Embraceable You".
In she recorded another album to lend her voice to a "Classic Ellington" recording. Lena Horne is a member sorority Delta Sigma Theta and has been on the label Blue Note Records since 1995.
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