Her half-sister, Frances da Silva, was born in 1923. In the early 1920s, Fitzgerald's mother and her new partner, a Portuguese immigrant named Joseph da Silva, moved to Yonkers, in Westchester County, New York. Her parents were unmarried but lived together in the East End section of Newport News for at least two and a half years after she was born. She was the daughter of William Fitzgerald and Temperance 'Tempie' Henry. Her accolades included fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.ДЇitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia.

Three years later, she died at the age of 79 after years of declining health. In 1993, after a career of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. These partnerships produced some of her best-known songs such as ' Dream a Little Dream of Me', ' Cheek to Cheek', ' Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall', and ' It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)'. While Fitzgerald appeared in movies and as a guest on popular television shows in the second half of the twentieth century, her musical collaborations with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots were some of her most notable acts outside of her solo career. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly her interpretations of the Great American Songbook. Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career.

Her rendition of the nursery rhyme ' A-Tisket, A-Tasket' helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a 'horn-like' improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.ДЄfter a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Ella Jane Fitzgerald (ApвЂ“ June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the 'First Lady of Song', 'Queen of Jazz', and 'Lady Ella'.

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