- As a teenager, Horne dubbed in the singing for Dorothy Dandridge's title character in Otto Preminger's film of Carmen Jones (1954). Less than two decades later, she would be acknowledged as one of the foremost Carmens of her time in the title role of the Bizet opera from which the stage and film versions of "Carmen Jones" were adapted.
- As a young singer, just getting her start, Horne recorded several albums for various small Los Angeles-area labels under the name Jackie Horne (her off-stage nickname). At a time when arrangements were not subject to copyright, as they are now, she recorded several very good sound-alike versions of other singers' hits at bargain prices during the 1950s.
- Marilyn Horne was only 20 when she began dubbing Dorothy Dandridge's voice in Carmen Jones (1954).
- She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1992 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
- She is an opera singer.
- She received an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts in May 2006.
- She teaches voice at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California since 1997. (January 2009)
- Mother of Angela Lewis and grandmother of three grandchildren.
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