Ella Fitzgerald Net Worth is
$1.2 Million

Mini Biography

On Sunday, June 15th, 1996, a time in jazz singing found an end, using the loss of life of Ella Fitzgerald at her house in California. She was the last of four great feminine jazz performers (including Billie Vacation, Sarah Vaughan, and Carmen McRae) who described perhaps one of the most prolific eras in jazz vocal design. Ella had outstanding vocal abilities from enough time she was an adolescent, and became a member of the Chick Webb Orchestra in 1935 when she was 16 years of age. With an result greater than 200 albums, she was at her advanced best using the music of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, of George Gershwin, and of Cole Porter. Her 13 Grammy honours are a lot more than every other jazz performer, and she gained the Best Feminine Vocalist award 3 years within a row. Totally aware of up-tempo music, her scat performing positioned her jazz vocals with the best possible jazz instrumentalists, and it had been this magnificent tone of voice that she taken to her film performances. Her last couple of years, where she acquired a bout with congestive center failure and experienced bilateral amputation of her hip and legs from problems of diabetes, had been spent in seclusion.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Ella Fitzgerald
Date Of Birth	April 25, 1917
Died	June 15, 1996, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Profession	Actor, Singer, Summertime, Blue Skies, Someone to Watch Over Me
Nationality	American
Spouse	Ray Brown, Benny Kornegay, Summertime, Blue Skies, Someone to Watch Over Me
Children	Ray Brown Jr.
Parents	William Fitzgerald, Temperance Fitzgerald, Summertime, Blue Skies, Someone to Watch Over Me
Siblings	Frances Da Silva
Awards	Kennedy Center Honors, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Grammy Hall of Fame, NEA Jazz Masters, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, National Medal of Arts, Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female, Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, American Music Award of Merit, NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award, Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist, George Peabody Medal, George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, Summertime, Blue Skies, Someone to Watch Over Me
Nominations	Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Music Film, NME Award for World's Outstanding Popular Singer, NME Award for World Female Singer, NME Award for Favourite US Female Singer, Summertime, Blue Skies, Someone to Watch Over Me
Movies	All My Life, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, St. Louis Blues, Pete Kelly's Blues, Ride 'Em Cowboy, Improvisation