In the early 1940s, a young Lena Horne began an engagement at an intimate L.A. club called Little Troc, where her silken voice — with her perfect enunciation and her sophisticated interpretation of ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Donald Bogle about his book Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed. She was a pioneering star of stage and screen in the... A new book tells the life story of screen-and-song ...

Lena Horne, the velvet-voiced chanteuse who went from Cotton Club chorus girl to singing and movie star, famed for her interpretation of “Stormy Weather,” died Sunday in New York. She was 92. Renowned ...

Lena Horne, the velvet-voiced chanteuse who went from Cotton Club chorus girl to singing and movie star, famed for her interpretation of “Stormy Weather,” died Sunday in New York. She was 92. Renowned ...

NEW YORK -- Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress known for her signature song "Stormy Weather" and for her triumph over the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not ...

Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway superstardom, has ...

The trailblazing singer on the day she (and her father) won over MGM’s Louis B. Mayer and grasped her star-is-born moment, as recounted in Donald Bogle’s new biography. By Donald Bogle In the early ...

LENA HORNE: (Singing) Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky. Stormy weather since my man and I ain't together. LEILA FADEL, HOST: That's the voice of Lena Horne. She was a pioneering star of ...

Her 1981 one-woman Broadway show, “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music,” won a special Tony Award. In it, the 64-year-old singer used two renditions — one straight and the other gut-wrenching — of ...

NEW YORK -- Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway ...

“Stormy Weather” singer was among first black performers to sing with major white band. This is a 1995 file photo of singer and actress Lena Horne, who broke racial barriers as a Hollywood and ...