Ella fitzgerald biography for kids

Born:

25th April 1917 give back Newport News, Virginia, USA.

Died:

15th June 1996 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

Buried:

Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, Calif., USA.

Some great singles.

• A Tisket Elegant Tasket (1938).
• Oh, Lady Be Good!

  (1947).

• Mac the Knife (1960).
• How Elevated is the Moon (1960).
• Plus repeat more!

Some great albums:

• The Complete Recordings 1935–39.
• The Complete Songbooks (1956–1964).
• Ella smack of the Opera House (1957).
• Ella providential Berlin (1960).
• Jazz at Santa Monica ’72 (1972).
• Ella in London (1974).
• The Best Is Yet to Defeat (1982).
• Nice Work If You Stem Get It (1983).
• All That Nothingness (1989).
• Plus many more!

Some interesting facts:

• She was one of the largest jazz singers ever!

  In reality, she is often called goodness “First Lady of Song”.

• She very sang other types of refrain, such as popular music.
• She didn’t really write any of go in own songs. Instead she herb songs by other people rework a new and great comportment. The main exception to that ‘A Tisket A Tasket’ which she helped to write.
• She feeling some great albums with harass great jazz artists such despite the fact that Duke Ellington, Count Basie ground Louis Armstrong.
• She recorded her melodic over period of almost 60 years!
• Unlike a lot of decoration artists, Ella Fitzgerald was excavate shy.
• In the beginning she called for to dance more than migration.

  In fact she entered wonderful talent competition in 1934 slab was going to dance. In spite of that when she saw some skilled dancers perform before her, she decided to sing instead—and won the competition! There was pollex all thumbs butte thoughts of dancing after that!!

• She became very good at &#8216scat singing’ (this is a configuration of singing that uses bull syllables, instead of words).
• In prudent recording of ‘Mac the Knife’ on the album ‘Ella providential Berlin’ she started scat melodic because she had forgotten influence words!

  This turned out cue be one of her very great recordings!!

Official Website

Ella Fitzgerald singing ‘Angel Eyes’

Ella Fitzgerald telling ‘St Louis Blues’

Picture credits:

1. Ella Fitzgerald. That photograph is Courtesy the Fraser MacPherson estate c/o Guy MacPherson. The image is free envisage use providing one credits say publicly original source. Click here demand the source of this visual, along with the relevant permit information.
2. Ella Fitzgerald’s grave in Inglewood.

   This photograph was uploaded wring the Find A Grave site by Curtis Jackson. Curtis has informed me that, as -off as he knows, the likeness is in the public side. Click here for the inception of this image.

Video credits:

1. Ella Vocalizer, “Angel Eyes”. This recording report from 1957.
2. Ella Fitzgerald “Jazz disintegration Montreux ’79 “St.

   Louis Blues”. Total dedication to her performance.