Via NY Times:

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 on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She was 92

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Last year it was reported that Alicia Keys would play Lena Horne in a biopic produced by Oprah Winfrey, however that was the last I heard about it :-/ Condolences