Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.The following are some of Ella's more notable career achievements:
13 Grammy awards
A-Tisket, A-Tasket entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame
Kennedy Center for Performing Arts' Medal of Honor Award
The Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
Pied Piper Award
American Society of Composers
Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman
Authors and Publishers' highest honor
George And Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement
National Medal of Art
Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation
Received first ASCAP award in recognition of an artist
Honorary doctorate degrees from Dartmouth, Talladega, Howard and Yale Universities
Peabody Award for Outstanding Contributions in Music
The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor
Birth Name: Ella Jane FitzgeraldAlso Known As: First Lady Of Song, Lady EllaBorn: 25 April 1917 Newport News, Virginia, USOrigin: Yonkers, New YorkDied: June 15 1996 Aged 79Genres: Swing, Traditional...