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AC63C6D000005DC-112_306x602.jpg' alt='Ella Jones Solo' title='Ella Jones Solo' />June 1. American jazz singer often 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 and intonation, and a horn like improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. After tumultuous teenage years, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country, but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Fitzgeralds rendition of the nursery rhyme A Tisket, A Tasket helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. Jackie Boyz Songs here. Top 200 Female Solo Singers. Author bonnielaurel. These are my favorite female solo singers. Duke Ellington At The Cote DAzur With Ella Fitzgerald And Joan Miro Sound HQ Duration 3830. Michel8665 37,989 views. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1. Signed with manager and Savoy co founder Moe Gale1 from early in her career, she eventually gave managerial control for her performance and recording career to Norman Granz, who built up the label Verve Records based in part on Fitzgeralds vocal abilities. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretation of the Great American Songbook. While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. These partnerships produced recognizable songs like Dream a Little Dream of Me, Cheek to Cheek, Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall, and It Dont Mean a Thing If It Aint Got That Swing. In 1. 99. 3, Fitzgerald capped off her fifty nine year career with her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 7. After her passing, Fitzgeralds influence lived on through her fourteen Grammy Awards, National Medal of Arts, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and tributes in the form of stamps, music festivals, and theater namesakes. Early lifeeditFitzgerald was born on April 2. Newport News, Virginia, the daughter of William Fitzgerald and Temperance Tempie Fitzgerald ne Henry. Her parents were unmarried but lived together for at least two and a half years after she was born. Mcintosh Trail Head Start Program. In the early 1. 92. Fitzgeralds mother and her new partner, a Portuguese immigrant named Joseph Da Silva, moved to the city of Yonkers, in Westchester County, New York, as part of the first Great Migration of African Americans. Initially living in a single room, her mother and Da Silva soon found jobs. Her half sister, Frances Da Silva, was born in 1. By 1. 92. 5, Fitzgerald and her family had moved to nearby School Street, then a predominantly poor Italian area. She began her formal education at the age of six and proved to be an outstanding student, moving through a variety of schools before attending Benjamin Franklin Junior High School from 1. Fitzgerald had been passionate about dancing from third grade, being a fan of Earl Snakehips Tucker in particular, and would perform for her peers on the way to school and at lunchtime. Fitzgerald and her family were Methodists and were active in the Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church, and she regularly attended worship services, Bible study, and Sunday school. The church provided Fitzgerald with her earliest experiences in formal music making, and she may also have had a short series of piano lessons during this period. During this period Fitzgerald listened to jazz recordings by Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, and The Boswell Sisters. Fitzgerald idolized the Boswell Sisters lead singer Connee Boswell, later saying, My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it. I tried so hard to sound just like her. In 1. Fitzgerald was 1. This left her at first in the care of her stepfather but before the end of April 1. Harlem. This seemingly swift change in her circumstances, reinforced by what Fitzgerald biographer Stuart Nicholson describes as rumors of her stepfathers ill treatment of Fitzgerald, leaves him to speculate that Da Silva might have abused her. Following these traumas, Fitzgerald began skipping school and letting her grades suffer. During this period she worked at times as a lookout at a bordello and with a Mafia affiliated numbers runner. Ella Fitzgerald never talked publicly about this time in her life. Prolink 1.15 Sokkia. When the authorities caught up with her, she was first placed in the Colored Orphan Asylum in Riverdale, in the Bronx. However, when the orphanage proved too crowded, she was moved to the New York Training School for Girls in Hudson, New York, a state reformatory located about 1. New York City. Eventually she escaped and for a time she was homeless. Early careereditWhile she seems to have survived during 1. Harlem, Fitzgerald made her most important amateur singing debut at age 1. November 2. 1, 1. Amateur Nights at the Apollo Theater. She had originally intended to go on stage and dance, but, intimidated by a local dance duo called the Edwards Sisters, she opted to sing instead. Performing in the style of Connee Boswell, she sang Judy and The Object of My Affection and won the first prize of 2. In theory, she also won the chance to perform at the Apollo for a week but, seemingly because of her disheveled appearance, the theater never gave her that part of her prize. In January 1. 93. Fitzgerald won the chance to perform for a week with the Tiny Bradshaw band at the Harlem Opera House. Around this same time, she was introduced to the drummer and bandleader Chick Webb, who had asked his recently signed singer Charlie Linton to help find him a female singer. Though Webb was, as The New York Times later wrote, reluctant to sign her. Yale University. 1. Met with approval by both audiences and her fellow musicians, Fitzgerald was asked to join Webbs orchestra and soon gained acclaim as part of the groups renowned performances at Harlems Savoy Ballroom. Fitzgerald recorded several hit songs with them, including Love and Kisses and If You Cant Sing It Youll Have to Swing It Mr. Paganini. 1. 3 But it was her 1. A Tisket, A Tasket, a song she co wrote, that brought her wide public acclaim. Later that year Ella recorded her second hit, I Found My Yellow Basket. Webb died of spinal tuberculosis on June 1. Ella and her Famous Orchestra, with Fitzgerald taking on the role of nominal bandleader. Fitzgerald recorded nearly 1. Webbs orchestra between 1. In her New York Times obituary of 1. Stephen Holder echoed the conventional critical view of the time in describing the majority of her recordings during this period as novelties and disposable pop fluff. In addition to her work with Webb, Fitzgerald performed and recorded with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. She had her own side project, too, known as Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight. Decca yearseditIn 1. Fitzgerald left the band to begin a solo career. Continuing under contract to the Decca label that she had worked with while part of Webbs orchestra, she had several popular hits while recording with such artists as Bill Kenny the Ink Spots,2. Louis Jordan,2. 4 and the Delta Rhythm Boys. With Deccas Milt Gabler as her manager, Fitzgerald began working regularly for the jazz impresario Norman Granz and appeared regularly in his Jazz at the Philharmonic JATP concerts. Her relationship with Granz was further cemented when he became her manager, although it would be nearly a decade before he could record her on one of his many record labels.