Ella+Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald is important to me because She don’t try to be like all this there singers she Be like her self. Ella Fitzgerald was born April 25 1917 at a Newport new va. Ella mother was William Fitzgerald. At the age of 15 Ella mother die of A sudden heart attack so Ella had to live in  A orphaned. Ella Fitzgerald attended public school. Ella sang at glee club. While Ella was liven on the street of Harlem in an amateur contest Sponsored by the Apollo theatre in new yore. Ella Fitzgerald got a lot of achievements like 13 Grammy awards • A-Tisket, A-Tasket entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame • Kennedy Center for Performing Arts' Medal of Honor Award • The Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award • Pied Piper Award • American Society of Composers • Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman • Authors and Publishers' highest honor • George And Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement • National Medal of Art • Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation • Received first ASCAP award in recognition of an artist • Honorary doctorate degrees from Dartmouth, Talladega, Howard and Yale Universities • Peabody Award for Outstanding Contributions in Music • The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor • NAACP Award for lifetime achievement This is what she said that a lot of singer think All they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead .they refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside…………so I’m going to try to get fine ideas before the other do