Ella Fitzgerald
D'Ella Jane Fitzgerald , gebuer de 25. Abrëll 1917 zu Newport News Virginia, a gestuerwen de 15. Juni 1996 zu Beverly Hills, Kalifornien, war eng US-amerikanesch Jazz-Sängerin. Hir Stëmm goung iwwer 3 Oktaven, an si gouf dacks "First Lady of Song" oder "Queen of Jazz" genannt. Hir Stëmm hat en helle Klank, si hat eng perfekt Diktioun an Intonatioun, a konnt besonneg beim Scat Gesang, bal wéi eng Trompett improviséieren.

D'Fitzgerald huet d'Great American Songbook interpretéiert. An hirer iwwer 60järeger Carrière huet si 40 Milliounen Exemplaire vun den iwwer 70 Alben, déi se opgeholl hut, verkaf. Si huet 14 Grammy Awards gewonnen a krut vum Ronald Reagan d'National Medal of Arts a vum George H. W. Bush d'Presidential Medal of Freedom iwwerreecht.

Discographie (Auswiel) 

 1938 - A-Tisket, A-Tasket (éischte Single-Hit mam Chick Webb)
 1944 - I'm Making Believe (Nummer-Eent-Hit mat The Ink Spots)
 1950 - Ella Sings Gershwin
 1954 - Lullabies of Birdland
 1954 - Songs in a Mellow Mood
 1955 - Songs from “Pete Kelly's Blues”
 1955 - The First Lady Of Song (Decca)
 1956 - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 1 und Vol. 2
 1956 - Ella and Louis
 1956 - Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook
 1957 - Ella and Louis Again
 1957 - Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
 1957 - Ella Fitzgerald at the Opera House
 1957 - Like Someone in Love
 1957 - Porgy and Bess
 1958 - Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
 1958 - Ella Swings Lightly
 1958 - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
 1959 - Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
 1960 - Ella Fitzgerald sings Songs from the Soundtrack of Let No Man Write My Epitaph
 1960 - Ella in Berlin: Mack The Knife
 1960 - Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
 1961 - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook 
 1961 - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (Verve)
 1962 - Ella Swings brightly with Nelson
 1962 - Ella Swings gently with Nelson
 1963 - Ella Sings Broadway
 1963 - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook
 1963 - On the Sunny Side of the Street - Ella and Basie
 1963 - These Are the Blues (Verve)
 1964 - Hello, Dolly! (Verve)
 1964 - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook
 1965 - Ella at Duke's Place
 1965 - Ella in Hamburg (Verve)
 1967 - Whisper Not
 1967 - Brighten the Corner (Capitol Records)
 1967 - Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas (Capitol Records)
 1968 - 30 by Ella (Capitol Records)
 1968 - Misty Blue (Capitol Records)
 1969 - Sunshine of Your Love (Capitol Records)
 1969 - Ella (Reprise Records)
 1970 - Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (Reprise Records)
 1971 - Ella A Nice (Pablo)
 1972 - Ella Loves Cole (Atlantic Records)
 1973 - Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall (Columbia Records)
 1973 - Take Love Easy (Pablo)
 1974 - Fine And Mellow (Pablo)
 1974 - Ella in London (Pablo)
 1974 - Ella and Oscar (Pablo)
 1975 - At the Montreux Festival (Pablo)
 1977 - With The Tommy Flanagan Trio, Montreux '77 (Pablo)
 1978 - Dream Dancing
 1980 - Ella Abraça Jobim | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook
 1990 - All That Jazz

Um Spaweck 

Gebuer 1917
Gestuerwen 1996
US-amerikanesch Sänger
Jazzsänger
Grammy-Gewënner
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Persounen déi d'Presidential Medal of Freedom kruten