| Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born on June 30, 1917 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. In 1943, Lena Horne signed a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the most prestigious studio in the world at that time thus becoming the first African American performer to do so. She became famous for her rendition of "Stormy Weather" in the movie of the same name that she made for 20th Century Fox (on loan from MGM). ( Wikipedia ) |
