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Feb 21, 2020: UDiscoverMusic: ​Ella Fitzgerald
She was simply the best woman that sang jazz or any other kind of music – one of the most loved by fans across the world.

April 25, 2017: NPR: ​Early Hardship Couldn't Muffle Ella Fitzgerald's Joy
One hundred years ago Tuesday, in a working-poor neighborhood of Newport News, Va., a laundress and a shipyard worker had a baby girl. The father soon disappeared, and the mother and child moved north to New York. The mother died. The girl ran away and became one of the most important singers of the 20th century.

Jan 12, 2017: ​National Museum of American History: Ella at the gala: Ella Fitzgerald's performance at the Kennedy Inaugural Gala
Within the Ella Fitzgerald Papers collection, a hidden gem reveals a surprising connection between Fitzgerald and President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. On January 19, 1961, at the National Armory in Washington, D.C., stars gathered to celebrate John F. Kennedy's inauguration. The Inaugural Gala brought together many of the leading performers of the day including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Gene Kelly, and Harry Belafonte. Ella Fitzgerald was among them and her participation exemplified her accomplishments as an artist and performer.

Sept 11, 2013: San Francisco Chronicle: Shows pay tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Janis Joplin
Two beloved women of American song, both long departed, are coming back to Bay Area stages - in a manner of speaking. Though Ella Fitzgerald and Janis Joplin couldn't be more different in style and voice, each is the subject of a theatrical biography helping to kick off the Bay Area theater season.

Photo by Yale Joel for Life Magazine, 1958 Ella Fitzgerald performing at Mr. Kelly’s nightclub

​April 25, 1917: Ella Fitzgerald is born in Newport News, Virginia. November 21, 1934: Fitzgerald made her most important debut in one of the earliest Amateur Nights at the Apollo Theater March 15, 1955: Ella Fitzgerald opened her initial engagement at the Mocambo nightclub in Hollywood, after Marilyn Monroe lobbied the owner for the booking. January 19, 1961: Ella performed at the National Armory in Washington, D.C., stars gathered to celebrate John F. Kennedy's inauguration. January 26, 1976: Ella began recording for her "Fitzgerald and Pass...Again" album. June 15, 1996: Ella died in her home from a stroke at the age of 79 January 9, 2007: The United States Postal Service announced that Fitzgerald would be honored with her own postage stamp October 11-12, 2008: The Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center in Newport News named its new 276-seat theater The Ella Fitzgerald Theater (formerly the "Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center") in Newport News. The theater is located several blocks away from her birthplace on Marshall Avenue. The Grand Opening performers were Roberta Flack and Queen Esther Marrow. April 25, 2017: On the centenary of her birth, UK's BBC Radio 2 broadcast three programmes as part of an "Ella at 100" celebration: Ella Fitzgerald Night, introduced by Jamie Cullum; Remembering Ella; introduced by Leo Green; and Ella Fitzgerald – the First Lady of Song, introduced by Petula Clark

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