Lena Horne RIP

Lena Horne is gone [sigh].

NEW YORK

Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital in New York. She was 92 and lived in Manhattan.

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She was an amazing talent, one of the greatest. Here she is singing her trademark hit, "Stormy Weather". The world is a little less lovely now that she is not in it.