Musicians & Entertainers Black History Posters & Prints, “Ho...-Hu...”
for the classroom, home schoolers, inspirational images for the home or office.

Billie Holiday
b. 4-7-1915; Philadelphia, PA
d. 7-17-1959

Billie Holiday, nicknamed “Lady Day”, was a jazz singer and songwriter, manipulating phrasing and tempo with her voice. Holiday took her stage name from actress Billie Dove.

A statue of jazz singer Billie Holiday is located at the corner of Lafayette & Pennsylvania Ave, Baltimore, MD.

• women in music posters

John Lee Hooker
b. 8-22-1917; Coahoma Co., Mississippi
d. 6-21-2001; CA

John Lee Hooker was a blues singer-songwriter and guitarist with a “talking blues” style.

Sam ‘Lighnin'’ Hopkins
b. 3-15-1912; Centreville, TX
d. 1-30-1982, Houston, TX

Sam ‘Lighnin'’ Hopkins was a country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist. He was listed in the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all time by the Rolling Stone magazine.

Lena Horne
b. 6-30-1917; Brooklyn
d. 5-9-2010; NYC

Lena Horne, a singer and actress, has recorded and performed alone and with notables such as Duke Ellington. Horne's career spanned from 1933 as a member of the Cotton Club chorus line, through film, TV, nightclubs, concerts and recording to 2000.

Lena Horne was also a civil rights activist working with Eleanor Roosevelt and Medgar Evers.

• An Evening with Lena Horne, DVD

Whitney Houston
b. 8-9-1963; Newark, NJ

Whitney Houston is noted as one of the best selling singers in the world with over 200 million albums and singles.

Alberta Hunter
b. 4-1-1895; Memphis, TN
; Boston, MA

Blues singer, songwriter, and nurse, Alberta Hunter started her musical career in the early 1920s, and became a successful jazz and blues recording artist. Hunter retired from performing in the 1950s and became a nurse; she resumed her singing career in her eighties.