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Ella Fitzgerald

One of the greatest and best-loved jazz singers of all time with an extraordinary vocal range, Ella Fitzgerald used her wonderful voice and improvisational scat singing to achieve worldwide renown and an international fan base. She was mostly raised in Yonkers, New York by her mother and originally wanted to be a dancer, but when her mother brought home a record by The Boswell Sisters she became hooked on jazz music. Her mother died when Ella was just 15-years-old and the grief sent the teenager down a destructive spiral as she started skipping school, running away from the ...