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So much has been written about her life, her voice, her contribution to the history of music- it was hard to pick and choose what we were going.!

New Ella Fitzgerald Biography Details Singer’s Influence on American Songwriting

Since Ella Fitzgerald’s passing in 1996, there’s now a major biography that shows the depth of her character and her lasting impact on American Music.

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Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song".

So much has been written about her life, her voice, her contribution to the history of music- it was hard to pick and choose what we were going.

Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Written by Judith Tick an authority on American music and women in music, Judith is professor emerita at Northeastern University with award winning books and articles on music to her credit.

Ella Fitzgerald throughout her life, was a very private person, giving little information about herself and her troubled youth.

With Tick’s book the author has managed to incorporate new information and new little known material on Ella’s life and cultural contributions. Tick has been able to achieve this through sources unavailable to past biographers, notably from resources of the 1930s and 1940s such as African American newspapers, some digitized as recently as 2010.

The author lovingly explains her mother’s love for Ella’s music, her mother