Ella Fitzgerald
Growing up, Ella had a troubled childhood. She started singing at an Amatuer night and things got bigger. She grew up to be the top female jazz singer for decades. By the 50’s,She became the first african american woman to win a Grammy. She would go on for 12 more Grammys and a Multi Volume “songbooks”. By 1996, Fitzgerald dies in her home in California. Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born April 25,1917 in Newport News,Virginia. She experienced a troubled childhood that started with her parents splitting after Ella’s birth. Fitzgerald and her mother then moved to Yonkers,New York to live with her mother’s boyfriend,Joseph. In 1923, Her half sister, Frances was born. This was the root for economic problems. Ella helped her family
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Ella entered in the category for dancing since at the time it was her first career aspiration. Before her was bound to go on, a singing-dancing duo with sequined outfits performed before her and she was discouraged. Once she got on stage, she didn’t dance,she sung. Wowing the crowd with Hoagy Carmichael's tune “June” and “The Object of my Affection”, she won the $25 first place prize.
That performance at the Apollo Theater is what started her successful career. She meet a bandleader and drummer named Chick Webb that soon Ella became a singer in his group. In 1938, Ella puts out her first No.1 hit, “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” that she co-wrote. Later that year she recorded her second hit named “I Found My Yellow Basket.” Additionally, Fitzgerald performed and recorded with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. After Webb’s death in 1939,Ella took over as the new leader and renamed it Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra.
Ella Fitzgerald had a unique style of singing along with crazy vocal abilities. She had a flawless tone,amazing dictation, and grand improvisational skills.Ella had an unusually wide vocal range which she can sing the highest notes and the lowest. She also had the amazing ability to use her voice as an instrument. According to other musicians, Ella was great at phrasing,the way that singers group lyrics and notes. She also used scat, a style of singing that uses imaginative vocal