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Ella Fitzgerald

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Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter and composer who lived from 1917 to 1996 and was known as the First Lady of Song for her pure tone, precise diction and phrasing, and skill at scat improvisation. She rose to fame with the Chick Webb Orchestra at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, scoring a hit with A-Tisket, A-Tasket in 1938, and later recorded eight Song Book albums interpreting the Great American Songbook along with collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Over a nearly sixty-year career she won thirteen Grammy Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts.

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Classification
Gender
Female 1
Active From Year
1934 1
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In Movement

Jazz, Movements

Foundational jazz vocalist.

Practices

Music, Art Forms
Source Wikipedia: Ella Fitzgerald
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United States

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United States

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1. Wikipedia: Ella Fitzgerald
  • Gender reference
    She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
  • Wikipedia sections
    While Fitzgerald seems to have survived during 1933 and 1934 in part by singing on the streets of Harlem, she debuted at age 17 on November 21, 1934, in one of the earliest Amateur Nights at the Apollo Theater.
  • Practices: Music, Lead section
    Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
  • In Group: Jazz Musicians and Vocalists, Lead
    Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917, June 15, 1996) was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella".
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Wikidata: Ella Fitzgerald
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