Biography

Native New Yorker Lena Horne started singing at Harlem's famed Cotton Club in the 1930s, when she was still a teenager, learning about music from the likes of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Later that decade she sang with the bands of Noble Sissle and Charlie Barnet. In the early '40s she began a career in movie musicals, her appearances in CABIN IN THE SKY and STORMY WEATHER achieving iconic status. By this time, Horne had become a bona fide recording star, and her rarefied beauty made her a ubiquitous pinup girl of the WWII era. Over the ensuing decades, Horne's career encompassed everything from Broadway roles to Grammy Awards, and she continued recording and performing well into the 1990s.

Top Tracks

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• A Ride On A Rainbow/never Never Land/i Said No/some People

• Ain't It The Truth

• At Long Last Love

• Beale Street Blues

• Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

• Careless Love

• 'deed I Do

• Fool On The Hill

• Frankie And Johnny

• Haunted Town

• Honeysuckle Rose

• How Long Has This Been Going On?

• How's Your Romance/after You/love Of My Life/it's All Right With Me

• I Wish I Was Back In My Baby's Arms

• Ill Wind

• It's Love

• I've Got To Have You

• Just One Of Those Things

• Let Me Love You

• Love Is The Thing

• Love Me A Little Little

• Love Me Or Leave Me

• Mad About The Boy

• Moanin' Low

• Mood Indigo/i'm Beginning To See The Light

• My Blue Heaven

• Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen

• Out Of Nowhere

• Paper Doll

• People Will Say We're In Love

• Rocky Racoon

• Something

• St. Louis Blues

• Stormy Weather

• The Man I Love

• The Lady Is A Tramp

• The Man I Love

• Uptown Blues

• What Is This Thing Called Love?

• Where Or When [from Babes In Arms]

• Willow Weep For Me

• You're My Thrill

Discography

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• Being Myself

  Blue Note

  1998

• An Evening with Lena Horne

  Blue Note

  1994

• An Evening with Lena Horne

  Replay

  1994

• We'll Be Together Again

  Blue Note

  1994

• The Men in My Life

  Three Cherries Records

  1988

• The Exciting ... Lena

  Springboard Productions, LLC

  1977

• Lena & Gabor

  El Records

  1970

• Soul

  Capitol

  1966

• Lena in Hollywood

  Capitol

  1966

• Feelin' Good

  United Artists Records

  1965

• Lena Horne Sings Your Requests

  Charter

  1963

• Lena Goes Latin

  Charter

  1963

• At the Sands

  RCA

  1961

• A Friend of Yours: Songs by Burke and Van Heusen

  RCA

  1959

• Porgy & Bess

  1959

• Give the Lady What She Wants

  BMG

  1958

• At the Waldorf Astoria

  RCA

  1957

• Stormy Weather

  Brisa

  1957