HORNE, LENA

HORNE, LENA. Popular-music/theater singer (30 June 1917 in New York, New York). As a child she accompanied her mother on a tour of the Lafayette Stock Players and appeared in the production of Madame X when she was six years old. She obtained her musical education in the preparatory school of Fort Valley College, Georgia, where her uncle was dean, and in the public schools of Brooklyn, New York. She began her professional career in 1934 as a chorus girl...