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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
  • NAACP Award for lifetime achievement
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Ella Fitzgerald was a black and very proud of that fact, just why should she not be proud. She was a large lady in both height and weight and usually wore black long frocks, remembering the African days.

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Ella Fitzgerald dressed with style. she wore puffy and slim dresses.

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Ella never danced but it was always her dream she even said "i never forefelled myself as being a singer i always wanted to be a dancer"

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