Ella Fitzgerald was a famous jazz singer from the USA, known as the First Lady of Song. She had a clear, beautiful voice and could sing many styles. Ella made over 200 albums and sang more than 2,000 ...
Affectionately dubbed as "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald’s amazing voice thrilled music fans for decades during her impeccable live performances. Even following her death in 1996 at age 79, ...
Blessed with an instantly recognizable voice full of youthful exuberance and a three-octave range, noted for its pristine and pure tone, the legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald is, along with singer ...
Ella Fitzgerald, who would have turned 100 Tuesday, was one of the most beloved and versatile singers of the 20th century. In a career that spanned six decades, Fitzgerald recorded hundreds of songs, ...
She wasn’t a beauty, like Lena Horne. She wasn’t sensuous, like Eartha Kitt, or homely, like Peggy Lee. ‘When a girl comes up and looks like me,’ she once said, ‘she just can’t get a chance.’ But Ella ...
She spent her early years in New York’s Colored Orphan Asylum, worked as a lookout in a bordello and helped a Mafia-affiliated numbers runner. And became one of the greatest jazz singers the world has ...
Ella’s Songbook series was so popular both critically and commercially that it cast a very long shadow over her other fine work for Norman Granz and Verve. Slowly these sessions are beginning to see ...
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“The First Lady of Song” Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 on April 25: Institutions from the Library of Congress to the Grammy Museum will be honoring her amazing contributions to the jazz canon.
The Crossroads Theater Co. in New Brunswick continues its bid to rebound from financial woes with "Ella Fitzgerald -- The First Lady of Song." This musical revue featuring former pop diva Freda Payne ...