RIP, admired you since ABCs (remember this?) http://bit.ly/94ZAnc RT@KING5Seattle: Singer Lena Horne dies at age 92: http://nyti.ms/by7MJf
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My grandfather always admired Lena Horne, not only for her music, but because, as he put it, she could have passed for white but chose not to, and stayed true to herself and her roots.
Looking back at the age of 80, Ms. Horne said: “My identity is very clear to me now. I am a black woman. I’m free. I no longer have to be a ‘credit.’ I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody; I don’t have to be a first to anybody. I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.”
Here's a song she became associated with, 'Stormy Weather':
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