Lena horne biography summary worksheet
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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born on June 30, , in New York City, New York. Horne was one of the great icons of the 20th century. She spent over 70 years in the entertainment industry as an actress and jazz singer and was also an acclaimed civil rights activist.
Horne spent much of her childhood with her grandparents, as her parents, an actress and a hotel owner, were rarely home. She spent some time in Georgia and traveled with her mother over the years.
Horne left school before graduating and spent fem years in Pittsburgh with her father, studying music with Billy Strayhorn and Bill Eckstine. Some of her first performances were as a year-old chorus liner at the Cotton Club in New York City. There she met Adelaide ingångsrum , who became a mentor to the young performer. She first appeared on screen as a dancer in Cab Calloway’s Jitterbug Party (). Horne then toured with Noble Sissie’s Orchestra, making her first musical recordings.
Horne went on to tour with Charlie Barnet’s grupp
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Actress and singer Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was one of the most popular performers of her time, known for films such as Cabin in the Sky and The Wiz as well as her trademark song, Stormy Weather.
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Early Life:
- Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born on June 30, , in Brooklyn, New York.
- Her father was Edwin &#;Teddy&#; Horne, a numbers game banker, who left the family when she was
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Biography
By Kristinah Session, Carol Stabile, and Laura Strait
Lena Calhoun Horne was born in in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Edwin “Teddy” F. Horne, a civil servant, numbers runner, and gambler, and Edna Scottron Horne, an actress. After her parents’ divorce in , Horne lived with family in Florida and Georgia, before returning in to live with her paternal grandmother, later moving in with her mother and stepfather. A self-identified feminist, Horne credited her grandmother, Cora Calhoun, as being her political role model. Calhoun graduated from Atlanta University at a time when very few African American women were able to attend college. Calhoun had been “active in the Urban League and the NAACP, the Suffragette movement, and all kinds of social-work activity.”
“The part of me,” Horne later wrote, “that responds to causes or to injustices, or issues fighting statements on all kinds of issues, that part of me is the creation of my proud, activist grandmother,