ella fitzgerald presidential medal of freedom.

Ella Fitzgerald was the first African American female to win a GRAMMY Award. Marilyn Monroe helped Ella Fitzgerald expand her career by calling the owner of a popular nightclub in the 50’s called Mocambo to get her to perform.

After a career that included fourteen Grammys, The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts, Ella passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 79. Ella Fitzgerald won the NAACP Image Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Louis Blues’in the film biography of WC Handy‘, and collaborated with the biggest names of the era, including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra. the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1992) and 13 Grammy Awards. Further ‘songbooks’ followed and she became a legend all over the world for her huge range and delicate and inventive phrasing. Profile of Ella Fitzgeralds support for charities including Jackie Robinson Foundation. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees) Presidential Medal of Freedom. Working with be-bop star Dizzie Gillespie, she developed her ‘scat’ singing with her influential 1945 recording of ‘Flying Home’, but when she recorded The Cole Porter Songbook, her career went stellar. Check awards winners of 1992 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

After fronting Chick Webb’s orchestra, she had hits with Louis Jordan‘s band and The Delta Rhythm Boys. ‘The First Lady of Song’ won a talent show at The Apollo in 1934. Hailed as the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald topped DownBeat magazine’s annual readers’ poll as the best female vocalist for seventeen consecutive years (195370).

Ella fitzgerald presidential medal of freedom.