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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Foundational jazz vocalist.
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1. Wikipedia: Ella Fitzgerald
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She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
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