lena horne died

Lena Horne, the glamorous jazz singer and actress, who challenged the bigotry that has made him the white audience entertained, but does not deal with them, the delay in his Broadway reputation of the deceased. Former 92ndHorne died Sunday NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a hospital spokesman said Gloria Chin. Chin did not release any other details.Horne, whose striking beauty and her sultry sex appeal is often overshadowed by a magnetic voice was surprisingly frank in relation to the background of her success.

"I was unique in that some black people to accept, she once said." Dreaming of Me. It was the worst of adoption, because I was never that big or what you paid. Because the way I looked. "At her first big Broadway success as the star of the "Jamaica" in 1957, critic Richard Watts Jr. called "a unique performers of our time." Songwriter Buddy de Sylva called him "the best singer of songs."But Horne is constantly frustrated by the public humiliation of racism."I am always fighting the system trying to be my people. Finally, I do not work to the prohibited places us. ... It was a bloody battle, where I was everywhere, every place I worked in New York, Hollywood, the world," he said in the book Brian Lanker "I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women who changed America."

She was married to Lennie Hayti MGM musical director, a white man in Paris after 1947, the first overseas commitments in France and England. An earlier marriage to Louis J. Jones ended in divorce after 1944, the production of Gail's daughter and a son, Teddy.In the 2009 biography "Stormy Weather" author James Gavin says that when the lover Horne asked why she married a white man, he replied: "If you do it."His father, the son and husband both died in Hayti in 1970 and 1971, and the singer off his grief, or even refuse to have someone, but the best friends. One of them, comedian Alan King, took months to persuade him to return to the stage, with results that surprised him.