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Lena Horne, jazz singer, first African-American artists under contract in 1942 was placed by a major studio film actress and civil rights activist, has died. He was 92.

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Horne New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday, according to the Associated Press was killed. Death was not given any information.

He's a big white stripe of the first black player hired to sing with, to play the Copacabana night club and a few are looking to win a contract in Hollywood.

Horne's career) and Lena Horne and An Evening with Tony Bennett and co-operation as well as her Vegas nightclubs in the Grammy-winning recordings, Broadway (for which his honorary Tony won on the Lady and Her Music, Live action, including highlights. There's also a Tony for the Calypso of his performance for was nominated.

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Horne's beauty and sexiness that contributed to his success was acceptable. "This is unique as I had a kind, black and white people could accept," he said. "I was their daydream. I accept how big or how I help the poor for this, because there never was. It was because of the way I looked."

During his six-ten career, Horne Stormy Weather (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1946) starred in the movies, including Las Vegas (1956) Meet Me In. He's on television Muppet Show "and" Cosby Show played a recurring role.

Horne some criticism "for her light complexion used to be white world, though often and Horne spoke about racism, civil rights advocates are dedicated to him.

"I'm always the people I have to get tested for the system to fight now. Finally, we held for places will not work ... It's a damn fight wherever I was in New York anywhere in Hollywood, all over the world," Horne Brian Lanker's book Dream a World: Portraits Black Women Who Changed America said.

I like Paul Robeson and Medgar Evers civil rights movement alongside such legends fought for desegregation and the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to pass anti-lynching laws of war.

Born in Brooklyn, and an upper-middle-class black community in Pittsburgh and grew, Horne joined the chorus of 16th and Noble Sissle Cotton Club Orchestra toured a few years later.

Horne's daughter Rachel Getting Married Gail Lumet Buckley wrote the screenplay and granddaughter Jenny Lumet, was rescued by. Horne's husband, arranger-conductor Lennie Hayton and his son died in the early 1970s.