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Ella Fitzgerald in 1954.

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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/
books/review/becoming-ella-judith-tick.html

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

(...)

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/
nyregion/ella-fitzgerald-the-voice-of-jazz-dies-at-79.html

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/
books/review/becoming-ella-judith-tick.html

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
ella-fitzgerald

https://www.npr.org/artists/15395370/
ella-fitzgerald

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/
ella-fitzgerald-something-to-live-for/590/ 

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/jazz

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/
books/review/becoming-ella-judith-tick.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/
arts/music/ella-fitzgerald-lost-berlin-tapes.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/
t-magazine/harlem-apollo-theater-ella-fitzgerald.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/
757560624/how-ella-fitzgerald-turned-forgotten-lyrics-
into-one-of-her-best-performances-ev

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/apr/07
/readers-recommend-playlist-songs-with-girls-names

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125170386
- March 29, 2010

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/
arts/music/29ella.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/17/4543675/
ella-fitzgerald-clap-hands-here-comes-charlie - August 01, 2001

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/16/nyregion/
ella-fitzgerald-the-voice-of-jazz-dies-at-79.html

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