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Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News Virginia in
1918 she grew up in an orphanage in New York City. When Ella Fitzgerald was 16 years old,
someone discovered her singing in a Harlem Talent Show. She sang with some bands and then
directed a band. She went to Europe and Asia. She also performed in Jazz Concerts at the
philharmonic. In 1958 Fitzgerald sang with the jazz composer Duke Ellington at Carnagie
Hall in New York. In 1985 she performed at the 1985 kobl. Jazz Festival at Carnagie Hell.
Ella Fitzgerald died in 1996she was 78 years old. She became a famous black woman because of her good voice.
http://www.maliner.com/bio/ella.htm1999, by Darielle, fourth grade