PHOTOS: Lena Horne | 1917-2010

Lena Horne with record producer Quincy Jones, left, holding his Grammy, and Dan Morgenstern of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences as she displays her Grammy and the record that earned it, in New York in 1982.  (Ron Frehm / Associated Press)

Lena Horne celebrates her 65th birthday and the closing of her Broadway run in “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music” with jazz artist Count Basie on June 30, 1982.  (Nancy Kaye / Associated Press)

Actress Lillian Gish, left, Horne and actress-singer Cher at the 36th annual Tony Awards ceremony in New York City in 1982.  (Suzanne Vlamis / Associated Press)

Lena Horne in 1994. “My life has been about surviving. Along the way I also became an artist. It’s an interesting journey. One in which music became my refuge and then my salvation,” Horne wrote in “Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice.”  (Garth Vaughan / Associated Press)

In 1997, the performer was honored at the Society of Singers’ Lena Horne 80th Birthday Gala in New York.  (Aubrey Reuben / Associated Press)