Ella Fitzgerald

1. Ella Fitzgerald
The Queen of Scat

2. A
MUSIC
LEGEND

3. Music Facts
• Recorded over 2000
songs
• Won 13 Grammy
awards
• Sold over 40 million
records

4. • Ella Fitzgerald grew
up very poor in New
York City.
• She was homeless for
a year before she got
her big break.
Ella Fitzgerald was born very poor.

5. Her First Stage Appearance
• Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in 1934
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6. • She worked with
many musicians
including Louis
Armstrong also
known as Satchmo.

7. S C A T
• A
• wordless
• form
• of
• vocalizing
• and improvisation

8. HIT #1
• A Tisket A Tasket

9. “I never knew how
good our songs
were until I heard Ella
Fitzgerald sing them.”
--Ira
Gershwin

10. • Ella Fitzgerald refused to accept any
type of discrimination when it was
difficult for a black entertainer to make it
to the top.

11. “The only thing better than
singing
is
More singing!”
Ella Fitzgerald

12. 1917 - 1996
A
True
Musical
Legend