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Lena Horne

Jazz
JazzPop

Lena Horne is a Jazz and Pop act. Their sound grew out of Harry Belafonte, Billy Strayhorn, Billy Eckstine, Adelaide Hall and Ethel Waters. Those roots explain a lot about how Lena Horne arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, June Christy, Nancy Wilson and Carmen McRae, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Adelaide Hall, Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 38 connections around Lena Horne, reaching back through Harry Belafonte and forward to Adelaide Hall. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Lena HorneHarry BelafonteBilly StrayhornBilly EckstineAdelaide HallEthel WatersAdelaide HallHarry BelafonteTony BennettPeggy LeeFrank SinatraSammy Davis Jr.Joe WilliamsAhmet ErtegünPeggy LeeDinah WashingtonJune ChristyNancy WilsonCarmen McRaeEartha KittDoris DayAnnie Ross

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Lena Horne connections

Lena Horne grew out of Harry Belafonte, Billy Strayhorn, Billy Eckstine and Adelaide Hall, shares an orbit with Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, June Christy and Nancy Wilson, went on to shape Adelaide Hall, Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee. 38 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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