Pioneering Singer Lena Horne Dies at 92
Lena Horne, the jazz singer and Broadway star, died in New York on Sunday. Horne was among the first black singers to cross over to white audiences or lead a white band, and later became a prominent civil rights activist.
"Stormy Weather," the title song of the 1943 musical, was her signature song, and one she used to great effect in her 1981 one-woman show, The Lady and Her Music. This is the original performance, from the 20th Century Fox film:
