For a short while, after her boss, orchestra leader Chick Webb, died, Ella took over the leadership of his former band. That was the only time that she "had a jazz band". For the rest of here career, her live performance were supported by a rhythm trio.
Those who sang with her are Lois Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Bessy and a few others.
No she sang in front of a band, in initially that of Chick Webb which she led for 2 years after Chick died.
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Ella Fitzgerald was born to unmarried parents, and before she was a year old her father William Fitzgerald, a wagon driver, left the family. When Ella was 15 her mother Temperence "Tempie" Williams died in 1932 in a car crash, and soon afterwards Ella moved out of her stepfather's home.
Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
Well they say Ella was married three times she got married to chuck webb a drummer for a band she was in that was her first and she got married again to the famous bass player Ray Brown and her last marriage was with Benny Kornegay a drug dealer
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Ella Fitzgerald was born to unmarried parents, and before she was a year old her father William Fitzgerald, a wagon driver, left the family. When Ella was 15 her mother Temperence "Tempie" Williams died in 1932 in a car crash, and soon afterwards Ella moved out of her stepfather's home.
Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
Well they say Ella was married three times she got married to chuck webb a drummer for a band she was in that was her first and she got married again to the famous bass player Ray Brown and her last marriage was with Benny Kornegay a drug dealer
Ella Fitzgeralds early years were hard years as she came from a black family, that had many children it was a tough life for many blacks those years. She grew up in the city of Newport.
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