Ella Fitzgerald all her life faced two major problems, one was the black problem and the second was her long and big battle verses Diabetes that beat her and broke those legs and her eyes, but they never ever broke her spirit , or desire to fight and sing again.
Ella Fitzgerald and Lois Armsrong were the two most loved and popular singers of jazz at that time.
Ella Fitzgerald was a famous black singer and as she lived many years ago , and being a black, she must have had many siblings and life was not easy for the black comunity in those days. The whites also were ude and did not give all blacks equal chances.
her fears were to not be able to sing anymore or to loose her voice.
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Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
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.
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
No, ella Fitzgerald is not single.
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She married Ben Kornegay
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she look up and said yes
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Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
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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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.
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."