Key Facts & Information EARLY AND PERSONAL LIFE Born on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, Ella Jane Fitzgerald was the child of a common-law marriage between William and Temperance Fitzgerald. Her parents separated soon after her birth. In 1934, the death of her mother made her stru...
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Biography 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. ...
Ella Fitzgerald, known as the “First Lady of Song” and “Lady Ella,” was an immensely popular jazz vocalist who interpreted much of the Great American Songbook.
Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete BiographyElla Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald: the first lady of song A biography of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald is presented. Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917 in Virginia. She began her singing career at an amateur show at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. She joined the Chick Webb band and took over lea... K Sh...
Rock’N’SeXXXyU Welcomes Emmy Award-Winning, Grammy Award Nominee Author Geoffrey Mark, Ella A Biography Of The Legendary Ella Fitzgerald, and The Amazing Burlesque Entertainer Miss Vanessa Burgundy join ...
Fitzgerald also assisted the careers of John Raitt, Engelbert Humperdinck, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Jimmy Van Heusen and The Burgundy Street Singers, among others. And when he was promoting the Sammy Cahn song “High Hopes”— a big hit for Frank Sinatra that won an Oscar in 1960 — he got...
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“a walking encyclopedia of show biz history”, a singer/stand up comedian and an Off Broadway veteran. Mark has three best selling books to date, this time he brings us ELLA: A biography of the legendary...