Ella Fitzgerald

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Ella Fitzgerald

• Ella was born on April 25, 1917
• She was born in Newport News, Virginia
• Her parents were William and Tempie Fitzgerald
• Her Father left the family
• They then moved to Yonkers, New York

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Family

• She has a brother and a sister, Joseph Da Silva.
  Ella's half-sister, Frances Da Silva, was born in
  1923

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Life in Yonkers

• Ella dropped out of school after
• Her mothers death
• She began messing around with gangs
• She got in trouble and was sent
• To reform school
• She ran away and was homeless

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• The Apollo where
• She made her
• Debut

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Ellas Debut

• Ella debut was at the Apollo in 1934
• It was amateur night
• She didnt plan to sing
• She planned to do a dance routine
• With her sisters but they messed up
• And she began singing

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Opportunities

• He begun introducing Ella to some famous people
• She joined chick Webb band because was in the
  crowd that night band
• For 12.50 an hour

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The Band

• The band had various hit songs
• Like love and kisses and
• If you cant sing
• Chick Webb died in 1939
• They renamed the band Ella and
• Her Famous Orchestra

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Beginning of her solo career

• In 1942 Ella left the band
• She signed to the Decca label
• She had many hit songs like
• Oh Lady Be Good
• And How High to the Moon
• She was known as the first
• Lady of song

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Ellas time period

• Ella was born with ww1 going on
• Later in her life was ww2
• The Jim crow laws were put into affect
• She grew up homeless during the great
• Depression

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Time period 2

• The great depression began with the
• Stock market crash
• One of the first things thing that happened
• Was the affects of money and supply
• The second thing that happened was
• Publications about economics

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• This is the great
• Depression

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Time period 3

• The third thing that happened was
• the business cycle peaks
• And toughs
• The last significant thing was political
• And social events

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Ellas Depression

• Ella was homeless during the
• Great depression
• She grew up during the civil rights
• Period when people were very racist

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Great depression ends

• It ended in 1941 before the
• Second world war occurred
• To really understand the great depression
• You have to look at what
• Happened before it ended

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• This is what caused
• The great depression
• To end

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Ellas Manager

• Ellas manager felt very strong about
• Civil Rights and required equal treatment
• To his musicians
• If they got any type of discrimination
• Ella would just leave the hotel

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Ellas manager 2

• In Dallas while touring the police
• Barged backstage to hassle the performers
• They came into the dressing room
• And arrested Ella for shooting craps
• And then they had audacity to ask
• For an autograph

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Ellas manager 3

• Norman was the only one to stand up for Ella, she
  received a lot of support from
• Celebrity fans including Marilyn Monroe

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Ella And Marilyns relationship

• Ella says she owes Marilyn's a lot
• Ella later said it was cause of
• Marilyn that Ella played in Mocambo
• Marilyn use to go to a lot of Ella's performances
  and the press would go
• wild

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Ellas voice

• Ellas says if people wonder why
• Its all worth developing a beautiful
• Voice, is to achieve perfect intonation,
• A flawless rhythm, concentrate on the
• Great American song book
• And work with the best
• Musicians

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• This is Ella Singing

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Ellas voice 2

• You should not look any further
• Than Ella Fitzgerald the
• The first lady of music

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Ellas Personification of music

• She personalized jazz for
• Over 60 years perhaps more
• Significantly earned the undying affection
• Of a mass audience comparable
• Of any pop icon

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How she affected jazz

• Ella is known as the woman jazz
• Has ever had
• She defined it with her own
• Style and tendencies

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The outcome

• She started of with a very rough life
• Her parents left and died when
• She was young
• She was homeless for a little bit
• And got into trouble
• With the law a lot

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Death

• Ella died in 1996

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Bibliography

• www. wikipedia.org
• www.ellafitzgerald.com
• www.redsugar.com/ella.html
• www.pbs.org
• www.cnn.com
• www.greatwomen.org
• www.ellafitzgeraldfoundation.org