“No es la carga lo que te
derriba, es la forma en que la llevas.”
“It's
not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
(Brooklyn, 30 de junio de 1917-9 de mayo de 2010), más conocida como Lena
Horne, fue una legendaria actriz y cantante estadounidense de jazz y música
popular.
Su carrera, tanto como
artista de nightclub como de intérprete de discos para diversas compañías,
abarca más de sesenta años, desde los años treinta a los noventa del siglo XX.
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
(June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and
civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years appearing in film,
television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age
of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had
small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the 1943 films
Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Because of the Red Scare and her political
activism, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.
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