ABOUT LENA HORNE
Twentieth-century African-American singer and actress. She famously sang "Stormy Weather," won a Grammy Award for a 1981 album entitled Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, and appeared in film versions of The Wiz , Broadway Rhythm, and Ziegfeld Follies.
After dropping out of high school at the age of sixteen, she performed in the chorus of Harlem's famed Cotton Club.
A civil rights activist with leftist political leanings, she was blacklisted in Hollywood during the McCarthy era.
She was born in New York City to an affluent family of European, African-American, and Native American heritage. She married Louis Jordan Jones in 1937; the couple had two children.
She appeared with jazz musicians Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in the 1940 musical film Cabin in the Sky.
