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Arts > Music > Jazz > USA > Ella Fitzgerald 1917-1996
Ella Fitzgerald For Entertainment
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Ella Fitzgerald in 1954.
Photograph: Larry C. Morris The New York Times
Ella Fitzgerald, a Voice That Set the American Standard A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career. NYT Dec. 4, 2023 5:01 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/
Ella Jane Fitzgerald 1917-1996
Ella Fitzgerald ('s) sweet, silvery voice and endlessly inventive vocal improvisations made her the most celebrated jazz singer of her generation
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A pre-eminent American singer who brought a classic sense of musical proportion and balance to everything she touched, Miss Fitzgerald won the sobriquet "first lady of song" and earned the unqualified admiration of most of her peers.
Musicians from Bing Crosby to Benny Goodman, when asked to name their favorite singer, cited Ella Fitzgerald.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/16/
Ella Fitzgerald was born in 1917 in Newport News, Va., but spent most of her childhood in a poor section of Yonkers, N.Y.
Her father, a longshoreman, left the family when she was young.
Her mother did domestic work, and toiled in a commercial laundry.
Ella didn’t make it past junior high.
She worked briefly as a lookout for a brothel, and was arrested for truancy.
She spent time in an institution for troubled youth.
She later told a relative she had been molested as a girl.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/
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http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/16/nyregion/
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