BIOGRAPHY - ELLA FITZGERALD

Dubbed “The First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald 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.

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.)

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 - they all loved her.

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