Excerpts from the Official Website of Ella Fitzgerald\u2026<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.ellafitzgerald.com\/about\/biography.html<\/p>\n
Today is the birthday of \u201cThe First Lady of Song,\u201d Ella Fitzgerald. She was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.<\/p>\n
Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole, to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman. (Or rather, some might say all the jazz greats had the pleasure of working with Ella.)<\/p>\n
She performed at top venues all over the world, and packed them to the hilt. Her audiences were as diverse as her vocal range. They were rich and poor, made up of all races, all religions and all nationalities. In fact, many of them had just one binding factor in common \u2013 they all loved her.<\/p>\n
Fast Facts<\/p>\n
Birth Name: Ella Fitzgerald
\nNickname: \u201cLady Ella\u201d and \u201cFirst Lady of Song\u201d
\nBirth date: April 25, 1917
\nBirth place: Newport News, Va.
\nDeath date: June 15, 1996
\nDeath place: Beverly Hills, Calif.<\/p>\n
Parents: William Fitzgerald, Temperance Siblings: Frances Da Silva (half sister)<\/p>\n
Married: Benny Kornegay (1939-1940), Ray Brown (1946-1952)
\nChildren: Ray Brown, Jr.
\nGrandchildren: Alice Brown<\/p>\n
First stage performance: Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater, 1934
\nFirst recording: \u201cLove and Kisses,\u201d Decca \u2013 1936
\nFirst number one song: \u201cA-Tisket, A-Tasket\u201d \u2013 1938<\/p>\n
Favorite sports teams: (Los Angeles) Dodgers, Lakers<\/p>\n
Did You Know?<\/p>\n
As a child, Ella enjoyed playing baseball.
\nElla\u2019s favorite singers as a child were Louis Armstrong and Connee Boswell.
\nElla made her first recording on June 12, 1935 with Chick Webb. It was called \u201cLove and Kisses.
\nIn the 1940s, Ella was known as one of the best scat singers in the world.
\nThroughout her career, Ella recorded at least 200 albums.<\/p>\n
Happy Birthday Ella\u2026May you rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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