June 30 - Lena Horne (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

Lena Horne (30 June 1917 – 9 May 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

[For last year's limerick on Esa-Pekka Salonen click here.]

Time and Again

These concerts were represented as Horne's farewell tour, yet her retirement lasted less than a year. - Wikipedia

Lena Horne, whose long career

  Of sixty years or better,

Proved that if you persevere

  And if you’re a go-getter,

You can work to ripe old age

  In nightclubs and on vinyl,

And even proved the final page

  Is really not so final.

 

 

 

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