ella fitzgerald

     

Known as the "First Lady of Song", she won 13 Grammy Awards, the most by any jazz artist

Trivia about ella fitzgerald

  • She recorded her first hit, "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", with Chick Webb's band
  • This first lady of song was Downbeat Magazine's Best Female Jazz Singer 18 years in a row
  • This jazz queen could have scatted "Happy Birthday" for herself & Al Pacino on their birthday, April 25
  • The First Lady of Jazz
  • In 1938 she had her first smash hit with Chick Webb's band, "A-Tisket A-Tasket"
  • Chick Webb discovered this singer heard here
  • Lena Horne called this woman who died in 1996 "the world's golden songbird"
  • Many of the TV generation know this jazz singer by her '70s ads that asked "Is it live or is it Memorex?"
  • This beloved jazz singer, "The First Lady of Song", passed away in 1996
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Smithsonian Institution.) This Grammy is one of 13 awarded to this jazz singer called "The First Lady of Song"
  • "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" was the first hit for this woman honored by the NEA as the first vocal jazz master
  • (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):A native of Newport News, she was a professional vocalist & band leader by age 21:"Oh mister, ...please play me a rhapsody..."