_With respect Ms. Alourde, __6:07__ Enslaved people cannot give consent over their bodies. They were r a p ed. I understand advertisers on YT don't like the use of the r-word._ 🥹
I went to the auction of her estate, and I did bid on some things and won some bids! I wonder if the portrait was auctioned. What is your dad's name? I'll look in the catalog for it❤!
Who else is moved to tears when she sings Believe in Yourself as Glenda the Good Witch on The Wiz? 😢 Rest in paradise, beautiful pioneer Lena Horne. 😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️🖤
I love the fact that she stood on business about not playing maid roles. When I seen this video I thought about Lola Falana and I noticed you did hers a year ago. I’m about to watch it now. I love your videos and how you narrate them.
A person who is Black American, is mixed to an extent. That's why we have different looks and complexions. Some people think they can tell our percentages by skin tone, but DNA tests have shown that's not the case. We're our own ethnic group. 🖤 🇺🇸
I’m black and my son’s dad is black. Not considered light skin but not that dark either. Our son came out significantly lighter than both of us lol I was sooooo surprised considering it wasn’t like anyone else could be his dad, I was just expecting a chocolate baby 😂 even his hair is this noticeable brown w these blonde undertones and its a fine texture as if he was mixed… now all it is is that he looks like my dad and his paternal grandmother who are both on the light side… Idk but genetics are interesting 🤷🏾♀️🚶🏾♀️ So yea, he
@@AJ-mt9zttrue. My dad is from Nigeria and mom is from Mexico and I came out with blonde hair and blue eyes despite neither of them having these traits in their family. Genetics are a beautiful surprise in terms of what it can create.
Yeah, all of us are mixed in my family and I have grandchildren with blonde hair and blue eyes and blonde hair and green eyes so our genetics but I know where my genetics come from after doing my DNA and I know my parents history so very interesting
Yeah, all of us are mixed in my family and I have grandchildren with blonde hair and blue eyes and blonde hair and green eyes so our genetics but I know where my genetics come from after doing my DNA and I know my parents history so very interesting
🖤 She carried the entire Black race back then! Paid a high price for it but she was still successful! I hate the way her mother treated her especially when she was going through it in Hollywood! 😢
I always loved 🥰 Miss Lena Horne. I didn’t realize I was enamored by her when I was a kid . I first saw her on Sesame Street, when she sang the ABC song. Later I remember when she was recognized at the first B.E.T. Awards. Rest in Peace, Ma’am. You are not forgotten ✊🏿
My mother was the flower girl for Lena Horne for the christening of a ship. The USS George Washington Carver in Richmond, CA. Ms. Horne was really good friends with my Uncle Cotrell Dellums. Ms. Horne was beautiful ❤
Ms. Horne was and remains an Icon! We cannot imagine thd life of a light skinned woman in Hollyweird! Youre battling your career intentions but also your own mother? She did exactly what Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, and other old Hollywood and new Hollyweird actors do. I look at her and see legacy, icon, scarred, and blessed. She definitely paved a way for style, class, elegance, and grace that we as women of color encompass and run away from.
🖤🖤i am light skinned spanish irish black. i wasnt able to appreciate my uniqness (back then i was one of the few light skinned girls. so i was fighting a lot -esp in Los Angeles. I am now 47 and i am finally comfy in my skin. younger i used to want dark brown eyes and darker skin. black is beautiful but so is any shades of colored ladies. being older and experienced its not as serious, you realize there are more important issues besides my skin shade. even in this day and age peoples still trip. its crazy how insane society and as far as ignorant beliefs blanket our lives as if thas the only thing in life that matters! so Miss Lena Horn and i have 2 much in common. Surviving a "light skinned world". sounds bizarre but it was basic survival for me at one time! i love who i have become and what i have overcame. i love your videos and you are GOLDEN. Pls keep bringing these classics to Light. With your channel- these legends shall not b forgotten! Karina brings value and entertainment to our lives🧚🐱MAGICAL
Yes - Alicia Keys would have been a great choice. They really should have made that biopic years ago. Kind of seemed like a no brainer - not sure why they never made it
Great video!! You did a lot of great work and it shows. I love Lena Horne.She was more than just a beautiful woman.She had a voice.She hated MGM.Bad experiences there.Have you seen her in That's Entertainment III??? She talks about her experiences. Thank you for sharing.💛💛
My grandmas older cousin that lived in Brooklyn and worked at the U.N became a friend of hers. He passed away when I was around 12 or 13, and I wished I had gotten to have more conversations with him. But I remember when Lena passed and he was able to send my grandma a copy of her obituary that she still has, what a life she lived! She was for the people, and was an unapologetically black woman.
I had the opportunity to meet Lena Horn briefly in the late 80’s. She was the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen. I think she must have been in her 60’s. Everything about her was perfection.
Great coverage of Miss Horne. This is the first time I heard Hollywood colored her skin to darken it. The way racism shows up is astonishing. These girlies today think they did something by starting makeup lines but they better get behind Miss Horne.🖤
I learn about Lena Horne because of my father. She was a beautiful and smart actress and singer. And an powerful activist! Always speak what's on her mind without putting people down!
My grandfather had a story about Lena Horne. My grandfather, BigTony (Clarence A. Perry) was a projectionist at the Howard theater in Washington DC. He was lighting up Lena Horne while she was performing on stage and I think he missed one of the cues and left her in the dark. After the show she came up to the projectionist booth and cursed him out up and down. I asked my cousin Fay what did granddady? He said “Lena Horne, cursed me out” I think he was pretty mesmerized by her. My cousin said later she was very apologetic, giving him a big tip.
@danilaroche1156 many marriages throughout history were made for the security of the families. Not because people were in love. They learned to love, or just endure, their spouses.
Glad she chose a kind man with her hypergamy- it looks like he adores her in the pictures. Would love to learn more about her friendship with Ava Gardner! Very sweet that the Showboat debacle didn’t tear them apart.
I've always been mesmerized by Ms. Horne. I use to enjoy watching her on TV programs & interviews. Having 2 grandmothers that looked white it was never hard for me think of Ms. Horne of anything else but black. She was smart, sassy, beautiful, and talented. She made me dream ..
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 Mrs. Lena was related to my great grandmother! Although my great grandmother didn’t pass until 2006, we never had an opportunity to meet Mrs. Lena! RIP🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Lena was the epitome of grace. LOL, I love that episode of Sandford and Son when she went to see Lil Lame Laaaamont and gave Fred one of his heart attacks.😂She was it for all men, even my Dad.
Isn't it sad that so many people still can't get past skin colour. By this year in 2024 you would think that people would finally just be able to appreciate one another, whether it be a friend, or a partner, just for their authenticity & for the fact that they love themselves in a most healthy way, for being the amazing & fantastic people that they already are. People need to stop pigeonholeing others & just accept one another for all the great attributes, inside & out, which they already posess. Please stop worrying about who is lighter or darker skinned coloured. Why cant people just appreciate the beauty & the unique differences of skin colours?! Good friends who don't all match one another, are like a beautiful bunch of flowers. Every one is different yet each bring their own vibrancy, their own special & beautiful quality to the bunch, just as they are 💐
I'm 57 yrs old. and the first time I ever heard Lena Horne's name it was on the comedy sitcom " Sanford and Son" ... didn't know at the time my mom had 25/30 pics of her and Dorothy Dandridge... Been hooked ever since!!!❤❤❤❤
I loved watching her when she made a special guest appearance on Sanford and Son. Fred Sanford was in love with her, and he would always talk about the film Stormy Weather. 😊
Omg Ive been watching for years, I came for a story on Maria Callas "the greatest opera singer of her time" and see you haven't done her yet, her film starring Angelina Jolie is coming out this November , I was wondering if we could get a story on her from you I love your detail !
I could only imagine the pressure from both sides. You feel as though you don’t belong anywhere. She seems an amazing person. I appreciate her honesty, no one really knows her struggle. This video describes her life, this seems only the surface. Can you imagine living her life and enduring her struggles?
I love this story ❤ Beautiful Lena knew the game and played well. The blood doesn't lie. I'm from Pittsburgh, and my dad comes from a mixed race, and this continues in my family. I just bought the memior. I can't wait to read. Thank you ❤
I think she was a brilliant and beautiful woman. I used to enjoy seeing her as a child when she would make guest appearances on Sanford and son, used to watch it every week with my grandfather, as it was his favorite show ❤🌹
In elementary school I had to do a book report on Lena Horne. Always loved her and crazy how she was the choice for the book report, which I didn’t have the opportunity to choose . Rest up Beautiful Queen 🖤
hello , great share . lena , was a great beauty , actor and very classy but her voice , was not the best. i never knew , she was "old guard "....how cool😊😊😊😊. an amazing lady , RIP gone , but never forgotten . again , great content , thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰...............
I have 4 of her albums she was so Beautiful and Elegantly put together You also have a great voice it relaxes me love your page I do fall asleep but not because I'm bored it's just it's so relaxing my BLIND friend says he loves your page too❤❤Thank you
I love how open and transparent Lena was, but there were a lot of problematic circumstances that she and others had that honestly, heavily contributes to the discourse in the black community today. I'm glad that mixed and bi-racial people now have their own space to feel seen and heard in. Hopefully, we can see growth within the black community by removing the "one drop" rule and widen our own spaces as well. Lena accomplished a lot of amazing things. Thank you for covering her!
Breathtaking ❤❤❤❤ my papa loved her, Dorothy Dandridge and Diahann Carroll. He would say angrily "Hollywood and society is full of fools, to treat any beauty thats Not caucasian less than they deserve."
And oh wow she has ties to my city i bet she performed in the neighborhood I live in now called the Hill District. They used to call that little Harlem.
I'm very light skinned with fine hair & 'white' features. I never thought I was better than anyone. I grew up in the 70s. Never was raised to feel superior. Well maybe a bit but I never bought into that BS.
Lena had a rough go of it at that time but she did what she had to do. I can't really speak on it otherwise because God what an awful time to be alive as a black woman period. 😐❤
Great video & content ! Thank you for doing such an awesome job! RIH Ms Lena Horne, classy , beautiful strong black woman! Black elegance & black excellence! 😀💕❤️
You could tell by the way she talked thet Lena Horne grew up around highly educated people. The woman oozed class and elegance. I remember her doing a commercial for The Gap where she was wearing jeans and she still looked elegant! I never understood why Hollywood would stick folks of color into these musical numbers that usually had nothing to do with the plot of the movie and wouldn't give them credit. I'd always wonder who these artists were and want to know. Later on I learned. Nowadays, of course, folks don't give a hoot about most of those movies except for the musical numbers that were cut out in The South.
She is one of my favorite entertainers with her being so light she did what she had to do to make it and she was a civil rights activist quite honestly she didn't have to do that, but she believed in her race. I just think a lot of people were jealous of her.
From what Lena went through in hollywood, she should’ve left for another career. She didn’t grow up poor so she could’ve been anything else like a Black rights advocate. She was a child of boule’ parents who kept her isolated from struggling Black people who saw her as privileged.
I first saw stormy weather on BET and fell in love with Ms. Horne. I never knew she went through all of this. I remember her always being very active about speaking up about racism. She was such a gem 💎. I remember her in the Wiz. She was a beautiful person inside and out.
Truthfully, Lena Horne didn't get black and start speaking black until the end of her life. I will always love her in Stormy Weather. That was her most iconic role. She definitely is a groundbreaking star. Excellent report. May she rest in peace.
Such an exotic beauty. Never knew that her voice was high pitched. I often saw her as a look alike of Audrey Hepburn,as a child... Was so sad when I learnt that Audrey passed in her 60s. Hearing that Lena Horne passed this century in her 90s is abit of a relief to me,cos I often asked myself where both of them were until this year
Lena was a beautiful actress and international icon. She did what she had to do in order to survive and left a lasting legacy of opening doors for future Black actresses.
I love tofu but have never heard of or tried stinky tofu. “It smells like dirty socks” though. That doesn’t sound appetizing at all. 😂Lena was an amazing woman. Her mother was horrible. But she had a great dad! I love that she never played a maid as well. Thanks for this. 🖤 I have to say the clips where the photos move with the border flashing, bothers my eyes. JS
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.” -Lena Horne
🫰🫰🫰
I love Lena she was a class act all the way.❤❤❤
I have this photo hanging in my home. ❤
_With respect Ms. Alourde, __6:07__ Enslaved people cannot give consent over their bodies. They were r a p ed. I understand advertisers on YT don't like the use of the r-word._ 🥹
If you don't, you will not survive
My dad knew her. She hired him to do a mural of her. My dad was a famous artist. He spoke well of her.
Is your father also a bourgeois?
I went to the auction of her estate, and I did bid on some things and won some bids! I wonder if the portrait was auctioned. What is your dad's name? I'll look in the catalog for it❤!
A.C. Hollingsworth
He was very well off if thats what you mean. Very educated. A professor of art, as well.
@@danilaroche1156 I've heard of your dad! I believe he was also known for doing comic books.
Lived until 92? Wow, she lived a full life. A very abundant life. Very blessed
Who else is moved to tears when she sings Believe in Yourself as Glenda the Good Witch on The Wiz? 😢 Rest in paradise, beautiful pioneer Lena Horne. 😔🙏🏾❤️🕊️🖤
I Always do 🥹 she was singing to all the black and brown children and whoever else it resonated with.
Every time I see it I tear up. 😂😢
I do! I have the Wiz album and it came with a booklet of the words of the songs from the movie.
Me!!! Every time! It’s one of my favorite movies!! ❤
Me 🙋🏾♀️ I absolutely love that movie and I get teary eyed during her scene
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Especially in the Black community.
History repeats itself
The most intelligent comment on this thread
Mrs. Lena Horne was the epitome of beauty, brains, style, class, and eloquence. Rest in Paradise, beautiful queen.🙏🏽🖤
I love the fact that she stood on business about not playing maid roles. When I seen this video I thought about Lola Falana and I noticed you did hers a year ago. I’m about to watch it now. I love your videos and how you narrate them.
Forget what people say, they will judge NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!
Once your family is mixed, there's no telling what your children will look like. The light skin or darker skin may show up unexpectedly.
A person who is Black American, is mixed to an extent. That's why we have different looks and complexions. Some people think they can tell our percentages by skin tone, but DNA tests have shown that's not the case. We're our own ethnic group. 🖤 🇺🇸
I’m black and my son’s dad is black. Not considered light skin but not that dark either. Our son came out significantly lighter than both of us lol I was sooooo surprised considering it wasn’t like anyone else could be his dad, I was just expecting a chocolate baby 😂 even his hair is this noticeable brown w these blonde undertones and its a fine texture as if he was mixed… now all it is is that he looks like my dad and his paternal grandmother who are both on the light side…
Idk but genetics are interesting 🤷🏾♀️🚶🏾♀️
So yea, he
@@AJ-mt9zttrue. My dad is from Nigeria and mom is from Mexico and I came out with blonde hair and blue eyes despite neither of them having these traits in their family. Genetics are a beautiful surprise in terms of what it can create.
Yeah, all of us are mixed in my family and I have grandchildren with blonde hair and blue eyes and blonde hair and green eyes so our genetics but I know where my genetics come from after doing my DNA and I know my parents history so very interesting
Yeah, all of us are mixed in my family and I have grandchildren with blonde hair and blue eyes and blonde hair and green eyes so our genetics but I know where my genetics come from after doing my DNA and I know my parents history so very interesting
🖤 She carried the entire Black race back then! Paid a high price for it but she was still successful! I hate the way her mother treated her especially when she was going through it in Hollywood! 😢
From the day i followed you, i realised Hollywood is a dark industry. Thank you for sharing these stories
I always loved 🥰 Miss Lena Horne. I didn’t realize I was enamored by her when I was a kid . I first saw her on Sesame Street, when she sang the ABC song. Later I remember when she was recognized at the first B.E.T. Awards. Rest in Peace, Ma’am. You are not forgotten ✊🏿
She sang with Grover, too. It's been over 55 years, and I still remember that episode. She is everyone's Fairy Godmother.
🖤
My mother was the flower girl for Lena Horne for the christening of a ship. The USS George Washington Carver in Richmond, CA. Ms. Horne was really good friends with my Uncle Cotrell Dellums. Ms. Horne was beautiful ❤
Y’all get in here…..our good sis just uploaded 🗣️🫶🏾
🥹🥹 hey sis 🫶🏽🫶🏽✨
@@KarineAlourde hey boo 🤞🏾😘
If they had done a film earlier of Lena Hornes life , Jasmine Guy would of killed it !!
Alicia keys
What??? Jasmine Guy can't sing, neither can she sound like her speaking voice.
@@miskittt502she has far more range than you think.
@@SimpleeKomplex Nawl, her voice is too low.
@@miskittt502 Google her hun !!
People get married for many different reasons even "regular" people so it is what it is on that for me .
THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THIS. Everybody’s NOT together because of love. I don’t know why folks won’t just admit this.
@@AyesheIsAlwaysLovelywow soo true. It sounds bad. But it’s the damn truth 😂
I loved her so much as a little girl 😊 Even as she aged she was just gorgeous. I loved catching the black and white films of her. ❤❤❤
Ms. Horne was and remains an Icon! We cannot imagine thd life of a light skinned woman in Hollyweird! Youre battling your career intentions but also your own mother? She did exactly what Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, and other old Hollywood and new Hollyweird actors do. I look at her and see legacy, icon, scarred, and blessed. She definitely paved a way for style, class, elegance, and grace that we as women of color encompass and run away from.
Lena Horne was just pleasant a breath of fresh air and beauty, I feel like Alicia Keys would imbody her as playing a Lena Horne..❤🖤
She was absolutely Beautiful 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Yesssss
🖤🖤i am light skinned spanish irish black. i wasnt able to appreciate my uniqness (back then i was one of the few light skinned girls. so i was fighting a lot -esp in Los Angeles. I am now 47 and i am finally comfy in my skin. younger i used to want dark brown eyes and darker skin. black is beautiful but so is any shades of colored ladies. being older and experienced its not as serious, you realize there are more important issues besides my skin shade. even in this day and age peoples still trip. its crazy how insane society and as far as ignorant beliefs blanket our lives as if thas the only thing in life that matters! so Miss Lena Horn and i have 2 much in common. Surviving a "light skinned world". sounds bizarre but it was basic survival for me at one time! i love who i have become and what i have overcame. i love your videos and you are GOLDEN. Pls keep bringing these classics to Light. With your channel- these legends shall not b forgotten! Karina brings value and entertainment to our lives🧚🐱MAGICAL
how did u make your font like that?? lol i’m old 😂
@@Funfun_dmust be the iPhone I think
I was wondering too @@Funfun_d
Yes - Alicia Keys would have been a great choice. They really should have made that biopic years ago. Kind of seemed like a no brainer - not sure why they never made it
Because she's wooden.
Yes and Alicia is a good at acting I loved her in secret life of bees
I came to say just what you said. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
They look a lot alike.
Naahhhhh the lady that was in the movie Deliverance on Netflix and the bio pic of Billie Holiday. She can act her butt off and sing
Great video!! You did a lot of great work and it shows. I love Lena Horne.She was more than just a beautiful woman.She had a voice.She hated MGM.Bad experiences there.Have you seen her in That's Entertainment III??? She talks about her experiences. Thank you for sharing.💛💛
My grandmas older cousin that lived in Brooklyn and worked at the U.N became a friend of hers. He passed away when I was around 12 or 13, and I wished I had gotten to have more conversations with him. But I remember when Lena passed and he was able to send my grandma a copy of her obituary that she still has, what a life she lived! She was for the people, and was an unapologetically black woman.
I had the opportunity to meet Lena Horn briefly in the late 80’s. She was the most gorgeous woman I have ever seen. I think she must have been in her 60’s. Everything about her was perfection.
A Beautiful Talented Woman ❤❤❤🖤🖤🖤. I'm glad you mentioned Lena and Ava's friendship.
Great coverage of Miss Horne. This is the first time I heard Hollywood colored her skin to darken it. The way racism shows up is astonishing. These girlies today think they did something by starting makeup lines but they better get behind Miss Horne.🖤
I noticed it when I was a kid.....I was fascinated by her.
I learn about Lena Horne because of my father. She was a beautiful and smart actress and singer. And an powerful activist! Always speak what's on her mind without putting people down!
Lena Horne was just one classy lady, hands-down, regardless of race❤🖤
I'm so glad you did, Lena Horne. I've always loved her voice and movies, even her records when she was older.
My grandfather had a story about Lena Horne. My grandfather, BigTony (Clarence A. Perry) was a projectionist at the Howard theater in Washington DC. He was lighting up Lena Horne while she was performing on stage and I think he missed one of the cues and left her in the dark. After the show she came up to the projectionist booth and cursed him out up and down. I asked my cousin Fay what did granddady? He said “Lena Horne, cursed me out” I think he was pretty mesmerized by her. My cousin said later she was very apologetic, giving him a big tip.
I'm not a Hollywood fan, but I'll watch anything about Lena Horne or Eva Gardner.
I'd no idea they were so close! Thank you as always. 🖤🖤🖤
Marriage for love is relatively new. And love alone isn't enough to make a marriage work.
Nooo. Jacob loved Rachel. We're going back to Genesis. Issac loved Rebecca so whatchu talkin bout?
@@danilaroche1156his first wife he didn’t love and a lot of upper class people did not marry for love most of the time it had to benefit the family
@danilaroche1156 many marriages throughout history were made for the security of the families. Not because people were in love. They learned to love, or just endure, their spouses.
Very true
🗣️tell them!
Glad she chose a kind man with her hypergamy- it looks like he adores her in the pictures.
Would love to learn more about her friendship with Ava Gardner! Very sweet that the Showboat debacle didn’t tear them apart.
So sad, she is so beutifull and good at her work!
Envy, jealousy from other women and power over other women at that time and still today!
Ms. Horne did what she thought was best for her career, im not here to judge. And so she followed her heart.
I've always been mesmerized by Ms. Horne. I use to enjoy watching her on TV programs & interviews. Having 2 grandmothers that looked white it was never hard for me think of Ms. Horne of anything else but black. She was smart, sassy, beautiful, and talented. She made me dream ..
The funny thing is that she never denied her blackness. It was other people who questioned it
Love your videos! Thank you for all you do.
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching ❤❤
@@KarineAlourdecan you please do a video on Esther Rolle
I was just talking about The Wiz and here you are with Glenda the good with! 🥰🥰🥰
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Mrs. Lena was related to my great grandmother! Although my great grandmother didn’t pass until 2006, we never had an opportunity to meet Mrs. Lena!
RIP🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Lena was the epitome of grace. LOL, I love that episode of Sandford and Son when she went to see Lil Lame Laaaamont and gave Fred one of his heart attacks.😂She was it for all men, even my Dad.
I saw episode it when they was showing reruns. I was young then.
A very beautiful & talented woman. May she rest in perfect peace. 🙏 🌸 💐 🌹.
Isn't it sad that so many people still can't get past skin colour. By this year in 2024 you would think that people would finally just be able to appreciate one another, whether it be a friend, or a partner, just for their authenticity & for the fact that they love themselves in a most healthy way, for being the amazing & fantastic people that they already are. People need to stop pigeonholeing others & just accept one another for all the great attributes, inside & out, which they already posess. Please stop worrying about who is lighter or darker skinned coloured. Why cant people just appreciate the beauty & the unique differences of skin colours?! Good friends who don't all match one another, are like a beautiful bunch of flowers. Every one is different yet each bring their own vibrancy, their own special & beautiful quality to the bunch, just as they are 💐
I'm 57 yrs old. and the first time I ever heard Lena Horne's name it was on the comedy sitcom " Sanford and Son" ... didn't know at the time my mom had 25/30 pics of her and Dorothy Dandridge... Been hooked ever since!!!❤❤❤❤
I loved watching her when she made a special guest appearance on Sanford and Son.
Fred Sanford was in love with her, and he would always talk about the film Stormy Weather. 😊
I saw that episode! 😂 Fred lied about Lamont being lame and cripple! 😂😂😂
Omg Ive been watching for years, I came for a story on Maria Callas "the greatest opera singer of her time" and see you haven't done her yet, her film starring Angelina Jolie is coming out this November , I was wondering if we could get a story on her from you I love your detail !
Thank you so much for doing an updated video on Lena , your work is amazing . I always have the last one on repeat LOL 🙌🏾
Is that her real voice talking it's the 1st time I've actually ever heard her speak but w😮w can she sing BEAUTIFULLY
I could only imagine the pressure from both sides. You feel as though you don’t belong anywhere. She seems an amazing person. I appreciate her honesty, no one really knows her struggle. This video describes her life, this seems only the surface. Can you imagine living her life and enduring her struggles?
All the women in my family absolutely adored her. Glenda the good witch is the best scene ever in The Wiz🔥🔥
Looking forward to it. I found a copy of her 1950 Jazz cd on vinyl Ray C.
Hearing her name always makes me think of that damn Nas song 😂 🖤
😂😂😂
Lena Horne was as beautiful on the outside as she was on the inside
Lena was amaaazing, had a great voice! I love her honesty! Thanx 4 this great upload ❤
I love this story ❤
Beautiful Lena knew the game and played well.
The blood doesn't lie.
I'm from Pittsburgh, and my dad comes from a mixed race, and this continues in my family.
I just bought the memior. I can't wait to read.
Thank you ❤
🖤🖤 Lena Horne biopic w/Alicia Keys, I'm here for it‼️‼️
I met her when i was little in the late 70s...my aunt Essie worked in Hollywood...her and Lena were best friends...
I think she was a brilliant and beautiful woman. I used to enjoy seeing her as a child when she would make guest appearances on Sanford and son, used to watch it every week with my grandfather, as it was his favorite show ❤🌹
In elementary school I had to do a book report on Lena Horne. Always loved her and crazy how she was the choice for the book report, which I didn’t have the opportunity to choose . Rest up Beautiful Queen 🖤
My Nanna waa incredibly light like Lena Horne with the keen features. You can see this through my Mom, myself, & my kids.
What is " incredibly" light?
She's one of my favorite Actress and singers. I've enjoyed all of her movies a great beauty. I wish I could have met her. 😊
She tried everything to be happy for herself. This was over whelming. Such a beautiful lady.
hello , great share . lena , was a great beauty , actor and very classy but her voice , was not the best. i never knew , she was "old guard "....how cool😊😊😊😊. an amazing lady , RIP gone , but never forgotten . again , great content , thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰...............
Lovely Lady. She reminds me of Alicia Keys. She could play Lena in a biopic.
My thoughts, exactly. 👏🏽🙌🏻👏🏽🙌🏻👏🏽🤗
Alicia Keys reminds you of HER??
She came first 😂😂😂
She has a unique face ! She don't look like Alicia Keys !
Don’t disrespect Lina Horne by disrespecting her beauty by comparing her to Alicia Keys, who can’t hold a candle to Lina’s beauty and talent.
I see Aaliyah and Alicia Keys
Loved Lena, RIP 🎉🖤
Thank you Karine
You are so welcome! Thank you 🖤🖤
@@KarineAlourde You're welcome beauty! 🌹🌻
I have 4 of her albums she was so Beautiful and Elegantly put together You also have a great voice it relaxes me love your page I do fall asleep but not because I'm bored it's just it's so relaxing my BLIND friend says he loves your page too❤❤Thank you
Great photo array.
Great job as usual. Thank you❣️I adore Lena Horne🖤🖤🖤
Lena Horne was absolutely GORGEOUS. I have the song "If You Believe" from the movie "The Wiz". 😊
love this video❤ she did get a nose job early in Hollywood, however. it was botched as well.
I love how open and transparent Lena was, but there were a lot of problematic circumstances that she and others had that honestly, heavily contributes to the discourse in the black community today. I'm glad that mixed and bi-racial people now have their own space to feel seen and heard in. Hopefully, we can see growth within the black community by removing the "one drop" rule and widen our own spaces as well. Lena accomplished a lot of amazing things. Thank you for covering her!
Breathtaking ❤❤❤❤ my papa loved her, Dorothy Dandridge and Diahann Carroll. He would say angrily "Hollywood and society is full of fools, to treat any beauty thats Not caucasian less than they deserve."
She was so beautiful, it's sad they treated her this way! She could have done so many more movies if they just looked past her skin color smh! 💔💔💔
I believe Halle Berry would also do well playing Lena Horne.
Agreed and she is an actress
To old now
Hi miss Karine i hope all is well i know for sure God protected you during these stormy seasons
And oh wow she has ties to my city i bet she performed in the neighborhood I live in now called the Hill District. They used to call that little Harlem.
Her story is very similar to Merle Oberon's. Except, Oberon was in England and got lead roles with Laurence Olivier
I'm very light skinned with fine hair & 'white' features. I never thought I was better than anyone. I grew up in the 70s. Never was raised to feel superior. Well maybe a bit but I never bought into that BS.
Lena had a rough go of it at that time but she did what she had to do. I can't really speak on it otherwise because God what an awful time to be alive as a black woman period. 😐❤
I have always loved Ms. Lena Horne’s voice to me she had inner and outer beauty thank you for sharing a great storyline.
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Great video & content ! Thank you for doing such an awesome job! RIH Ms Lena Horne, classy , beautiful strong black woman! Black elegance & black excellence! 😀💕❤️
Great documentary thank you for putting it all together
I love how you've edited the video portions of your newer videos. It looks like a scrap book or something.
It is what it is. Excellent story
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You could tell by the way she talked thet Lena Horne grew up around highly educated people. The woman oozed class and elegance. I remember her doing a commercial for The Gap where she was wearing jeans and she still looked elegant!
I never understood why Hollywood would stick folks of color into these musical numbers that usually had nothing to do with the plot of the movie and wouldn't give them credit. I'd always wonder who these artists were and want to know. Later on I learned. Nowadays, of course, folks don't give a hoot about most of those movies except for the musical numbers that were cut out in The South.
Stinky tofu is sooooo good! I just had it in Taiwan last week.
She is one of my favorite entertainers with her being so light she did what she had to do to make it and she was a civil rights activist quite honestly she didn't have to do that, but she believed in her race. I just think a lot of people were jealous of her.
Lena Horne was beyond multi-talented and gorgeous! Love her! ♥️♥️♥️
From what Lena went through in hollywood, she should’ve left for another career. She didn’t grow up poor so she could’ve been anything else like a Black rights advocate. She was a child of boule’ parents who kept her isolated from struggling Black people who saw her as privileged.
I first saw stormy weather on BET and fell in love with Ms. Horne. I never knew she went through all of this. I remember her always being very active about speaking up about racism. She was such a gem 💎. I remember her in the Wiz. She was a beautiful person inside and out.
Great job on video and photos She stood on her true 🖤🖤🖤😂😂grandson like look at her when he watching Wiz over and over 🖤🖤
Can you do a documentary on forgotten star, Diana Sands? She died very young and very little is written about her.
Truthfully, Lena Horne didn't get black and start speaking black until the end of her life. I will always love her in Stormy Weather. That was her most iconic role. She definitely is a groundbreaking star. Excellent report. May she rest in peace.
When someone is good to you, truly race is not the issue only the character.
Such an exotic beauty. Never knew that her voice was high pitched. I often saw her as a look alike of Audrey Hepburn,as a child... Was so sad when I learnt that Audrey passed in her 60s. Hearing that Lena Horne passed this century in her 90s is abit of a relief to me,cos I often asked myself where both of them were until this year
She's always been an Icon to me!
Absolutely love this video…..showed Lena in a beautiful real light……she was a wonderful woman paved the way for women of color
Lena was a beautiful actress and international icon. She did what she had to do in order to survive and left a lasting legacy of opening doors for future Black actresses.
Her and I share the same BD, June 30th. A beautiful soul who suffered the nonsense of Hollywood with grace. RIP 🖤
I love tofu but have never heard of or tried stinky tofu. “It smells like dirty socks” though. That doesn’t sound appetizing at all. 😂Lena was an amazing woman. Her mother was horrible. But she had a great dad! I love that she never played a maid as well. Thanks for this. 🖤
I have to say the clips where the photos move with the border flashing, bothers my eyes. JS