Singer Lena Horne Dies at 92
May 12, 2010

Lena Horne died Sunday night in a New York hospital. She was 92. She is survived by her daughter Gail Buckley.

While she broke racial barriers and saw huge success in her professional life, Horne had a stormy personal life.

Horne joined the mike chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Because of her passionate stance against discrimination along with other left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.

At age 19 in 1937, she married Louis J. Jones, a preacher's son and friend of her father's. They had two children, Gail and Edwin, before the marriage ended in 1944.



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