Ella Fitzgerald

"Singer, born in Newport News, VA. Discovered in 1934 singing in an amateur contest in Harlem, she joined Chick Webb's band and recorded several hits, notably "A-tisket A-tasket' (1938). Her lucid intonation and broad range made her a top jazz singer. Her series of recordings for Verve (1955--9) in multi-volume "songbooks' are among the treasures of American popular song. After 1971 her concert schedule was occasionally interrupted because of diabetes, and she had both legs amputated in 1994." Un Homme et Une Femme / A Man and A Woman (Pierre Barouh/Jean-Paul Keller/Francis Lai)

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