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Ella Fitzgerald ( April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella, was one of the most important jazz singers, and the winner of thirteen Grammy Awards. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
She was born in Newport News, Virginia and raised in Yonkers, New York. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
Her singing debut was at age 16 in 1934 at the Harlem Apollo Theatre , New YorkNew York is a state in the northeastern United States whose U. postal abbreviation is NY . It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. History See: History of New York New York was one of the thirteen col, in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights", which she won, adding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by Bardu AliBardu Ali ( 1910 1981) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues singer and guitarist, and an important musical promoter. He became master of ceremonies of the bands in which he worked early in his career Napoleon Zyas's, Leroy Tibbs', and Chick Webb's. of Chick WebbWilliam Henry Webb usually known as Chick Webb ( 10 February, 1909 16 June, 1939) was a jazz and swing music drummer and band leader. Webb was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He suffered from childhood tuberculosis, leaving him with short height and a badly's band, who persuaded Webb to hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in 1935Events January January 1 Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppo, in Harlem's Savoy BallroomThe Savoy Ballroom located in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, was a public place for music and dance shows from 1926 to 1958. It was located between 140th and 141st Streets on Lenox Avenue. The Savoy was a popular dance club in the 1920s and 1930s and m. She recorded several hit songs with them, including "(If You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the nursery rhymeA nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. Learning such verse assists in the development of vocabulary, and several examples deal with rudimentary counting skills. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe is an examp, " A Tisket A Tasket " that launched her to stardom.
When Chick Webb died in 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26, the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
She began her soloThe term solo has different meanings in different contexts. Solo is a descriptive term applied to any activity done alone. Examples include flying, driving, singing, playing a musical instrument, or anything normally or previously done as part of a group career in 1941. Started as a swing singer, she encompassed bebop, scat, and performed blues, bossa nova, samba, gospel, calypso, and Christmas songs. Ella's later concerts were often enriched by some hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly Marilyn Monroe's voice and typical gestures, as well as Louis Armstrong's.
Among her best known recordings was a series produced by Norman Granz of the songbook s of the great American popular composers, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin (with Nelson Riddle's orchestra), Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, and Duke Ellington. With Ellington's band, Lady Ella (as she was now called by other singers) toured Europe and North America, classically opening their shows with the famous Ellington's hit " Take the 'A' train ", of which she was one of the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
She performed concerts with the most important groups and soloists. Her role effectively was the "instrumentalist of voice". Among the many partners and/or band leaders, like Oscar Peterson, Count Basie ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), Joe Pass ("Speak love"), Dizzy Gillespie, the Tommy Flanagan Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, Billie Holiday ( 1957).
Porgy and Bess is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend Louis Armstrong, but the couple also recorded the very popular "Ella and Louis" which was so successful that Granz's Verve records asked them for the equally successful "Ella and Louis again".
Ella Fitzgerald also appeared alongside Peggy Lee as an actress and singer in Jack Webb's jazz film Pete Kelly's Blues .
She married twice. Her second husband was the famous bass player Ray Brown. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr.
Already blinded because suffering from diabetes, she lost her legs in 1993, and a little later she died in Beverly Hills, California, after having made some sad last TV appearances. She is interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
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