Ella Fitzgerald By: Elyse Goins American Jazz Singer!!!!!!!!!

Beginnings Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born April 25, 1917 She grew up in Newport News, Virginia Ella’s mom had a second child named Frances Her mom’s boyfriend name is Joseph Da Silva but they call him (Joe) Ella’s mom died in a car accident Ella moved with her aunt A little while after Ella’s mom died Joe died of a really bad heart attack and Frances moved with Ella and her aunt Ella song the first time at the Apollo when she was only 16 years old she went to the Apollo because it was amateur night

Ella recorded many hits If You Can’t Sing It You’ll Have To Swing It Love And Kisses (which was her first recording) 1938 Ella when she was 21 years old she recorded a nursery rhyme A –Tisket A-Tasket sold one million hits and stayed #1 for 17 weeks Recordings

Marriages 1941 Ella married Benny Kornegay after she discovered that he had a criminal record she divorce him really fast When Ella was on a tour with Dizzy Gillespie’s band she met Ray Brown Ray and Ella got married in 1947 and after that they adopted a child born to Ella’s half sister his name was Ray Brown Jr.\ Ella and Ray got divorced in 1958

Shows She Appeared On Bing Crosby Show Frank Sinatra Show Tonight Show

Later Years Ella continued to work even when she was really sick 1979 Fitzgerald was in the hall of fame In September 1986 Ella went into bypass surgery She was diagnosed with diabetes

Silence June 15, 1996 Ella Fitzgerald died in her Beverly Hills home Her remains were in the Sunset Mission Mausoleum at Inglewood cemetery in Inglewood, California

Her awards 1934-won amateur night competition at the Apollo theater 1935-won one week of performing at Harlem opera house 1937-top female vocalist, down beat magazine 1938-first NO. 1 song “Tisket, A- Tasket” 1954-best female vocalist, metronome magazine best female vocalist, down beat magazine (both readers and critics poll) 1956-all star female, metronome magazine 1958-firsy Grammy award held: won best female vocal performance for “the Irving Berlin songbook (album) 1959-grammy awards, best female vocal performance for:" but not for me” and best individual jazz performance for “Ella's swings lightly” 1960-Honorary membership to Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest and largest African-American sorority in the United States Grammy awards, Best Female Vocal Performance (single) for "Mack the Knife" and Best Female Vocal Performance (album) for "Ella in Berlin" 1962-Grammy award, Best Female Solo Vocal Performance for "Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson Riddle"

Her awards 1965 Received first ASCAP award in recognition of an artist 1967 Grammy award, Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement award Honorary chairmanship of the newly formed Martin Luther King Foundation 1974 University of Maryland names its new $1.6 million, 1,200-seat theater and concert hall the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts 1976 (April 11) Ella Fitzgerald Day in Los Angeles Honorary Doctorate in Music from Dartmouth College Award of Distinction from National Association of Sickle Cell Diseases Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman Grammy award, Best Jazz Vocal Performance for "Fitzgerald and Pass…Again" (album) 1979 Grammy award, Best Jazz Vocal Performance for "Fine and Mellow" (album) Kennedy Center Honors 1980 Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association Honorary Doctor of Music from Howard University Lord & Taylor Rose award for her outstanding contribution to music Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama Grammy award, Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance for "A Perfect Match; Ella and Basie" (album) 1981 Grammy award, Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance for "Digital III at Montreux" (album) 1982 Hasty Pudding Club Woman of the Year She has more awards but to much to put on

Her Timeline 1917 Ella Jane Fitzgerald is born on April 25th in Newport News, Virginia. Her parents separate shortly after and she moves with her mother to Yonkers, New York 1932 Her mother dies from a heart attack and, after remaining with her stepfather for a short time, she goes to live with her aunt in Harlem. Ella begins “running numbers” and acting as a lookout for a prostitution house. She drops out of high school, and is eventually picked up by the authorities. She is sent to the Riverdale Children’s Association, a reform school, where it is speculated that she is abused She runs away from reform school in the fall and lives on the streets. On November 21st she wins $25 at Apollo’s Amateur Night. She sang Hoagy Carmichael’s song “Judy,” and performed three encores. The band’s saxophonist Benny Carter is so impressed with her performance he takes her under his wing and introduces her to important people in the industry 1935 She wins first prize at the Harlem Opera House’s amateur night in January, winning the chance to perform for a week with the Tiny Bradshaw band in February. A few months later she joins the Chick Webb band, and by June she is making her first recording, “Love and Kisses.”

1938 In May she records a jazzy playful version of the nursery rhyme “A-Tisket, A-Tasket.” It enters the charts at No. 10 on June 18th and climbs to No. 2 several weeks later, making her famous. In November, the follow-up song “I Found My Yellow Basket” rises to No. 3 on the charts After drummer Chick Webb dies in June, the band is renamed “Ella Fitzgerald and her Famous Orchestra.” 1941 She weds Benny Kornegay on December 26th in St. Louis, Missouri. The marriage is annulled the following year, citing Kornegay’s criminal past as grounds for the split In March she begins performing with the smaller instrumental/vocal group Three Keys. In July, she performs for the last time with her orchestra and embarks on a solo career She applies her innovative “scat” technique to the recording “Flying Home” and the New York Times describes it as “one the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade” Weds bass player Ray Brown on December 10th, in Chicago. Together they adopt a son from Fitzgerald’s half- sister. They name him Ray Brown Jr.She gets involved with the Foster Parents Plan, thus beginning a lifelong tradition of supporting children’s charities.

1948 Travels to Europe for the first time to perform in England.The following year she performs for Norman Granz’s show, Jazz At The Philharmonic, at Carnegie Hall. She continues to tour with the show over the next 40 years. Granz guides her to international fame as she tours and records with him tirelessly month after month She divorces Ray Brown Early in the year she is hospitalized with a node on her throat. It takes her six weeks to recover, but by March 24th she is back in the studio recording “I Need.” 1956 She releases a series of eight “Songbooks” in eight years with Norman Granz. The albums serve as a tribute to great composers such as Gershwin and Duke Ellington On July 9th, Reuters reports that Fitzgerald secretly wed Norwegian Thor Einar Larsen in Oslo, Norway. She even moves to Norway for a brief time. Afterward it is reported that Larsen was jailed for theft, and the relationship is soon forgotten.She performs at the Copacabana, becoming the first African-American to do so.

1971In July she undergoes an operation to remove cataracts on her right eye and treat a hemorrhage in her left eye caused by diabetes She establishes the Ella Fitzgerald Child Care Center in Los Angeles She undergoes five–way heart bypass surgery after having a heart attack in August. Nevertheless, Ella continues to perform She performs for the last time at Carnegie Music Hall— her 26th performance at the famed venue Her legs are amputated as a side effect of diabetes Ella Fitzgerald dies from diabetes complications on June 15th, in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 79.

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