The earliest CD release for Ella Fitzgerald I can find is "First Lady of Song" (Verve 1993)
and lalithgeorge Ella Fitzgerald died in 1996.
As Ella Fitzgerald had died in the late fifties , in the good old gramaphone and L.P record days she may not have released her own C.D.
to become a singer
Xavier Wilkins
She married Ben Kornegay
Ray Brown Jr.
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Ella didn't release any CDs. She died before they were invented. But much of her music has been re-released on CD.
piano lessons, public school music system, and high school music courses
Her role model was Connee Boswell and tried to follow in her footsteps in becoming a professional singer. After she became a professional singer she considered Connee as her, " First singing teacher."
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.
Answers.com says 'Her parents, William Fitzgerald and Temperance Williams Fitzgerald ...' The answer is right there in Wikipedia too!